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NEWS: £27 shaved from annual home energy bills by renewables.

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… Could have been £140 with faster roll-out.    Britain’s wind and solar farms could help to reduce households’ energy bills by paying back almost £800m to consumers by the end of the winter after gas and electricity market prices rocketed above their set subsidy levels.

Tidal energy potential

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Stephen Wyatt, director of research and disruptive innovation at Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (ORE) has claimed that we could be in the “golden decade” for the tidal stream energy. He proposes that investment and subsidies could pave the way to the technology to become cost-effective, w...

Workshop on Energy System Flexibility

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Flexibility refers to the ability to use generation, storage and demand side resources making the most of computational intelligence distributed along the grid for balancing energy supply and demand. Increasing the energy system flexibility is key to ensure the reliable integration of larger shar...

Urban gardens are a dependable food source for pollinators through the year

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Gardens in cities provide a long and continuous supply of energy-rich nectar from March to October, scientists at the University of Bristol have found.  Despite huge garden-to-garden variation in both the quantity and timing of nectar production, pollinators are guaranteed a reliable food supply...

Government Office for Science ‘A Net Zero Strategy’ Foresight Project

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The Government Office for Science has launched a new Foresight Project to help inform the government’s long-term net zero strategy, titled “A net zero society – scenarios and pathways”. This project will provide the evidence and tools to help understand how behaviours could impact net...

Consultation: UKRI Survey on Impact in Research Applications

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UKRI are now reviewing our systems to better understand the effectiveness of our current approaches in supporting impact across UKRI and through the investments we fund.  They are keen to gather feedback and to gain an understanding of how impact development activities are being embedded into pr...

EU Commission is looking for top experts to advise on EU Missions

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The European Commission launched a call for experts on 5 January (Deadline: 2 February 2022) to join the five Mission Boards, with the role of advising on the implementation of the EU Missions. The five Mission Boards will have up to 15 independent top experts for each Mission.