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Chancellor George Osborne has announced £30m of Government funding as part of a total investment of £67m in four innovation centres across Oxfordshire.

Oxford’s Solar PV researcher Henry Snaith is among the top 10 of Nature’s 2013 Most Important People of the Year.

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Greg Barker MP receives the first Oxford Energy Newsletter when visiting the Environmental Change Institute.

Oxford University is set to benefit from a £10 million investment in a new environmental science training programme, leading one of 15 Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) across the country.

Following a 2012 ‘breakthrough for perovskite cells’ by Oxford physicist Henry Snaith and colleagues, Science (11/9/13) reported that Henry and his team ‘have delivered another surprise…the cells are just as efficient if constructed using the same method as cheap thin-film silicon cells. What’s more, the simple layered cell converts more than 15% of sunlight to electricity – equal to the record for perovskite cells, set just two months ago for a nanostructured device’.

A hard look at the twin challenges of climate change and energy scarcity that examines historical precedents and allows no room for complacency.

The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies was rated the second best Energy and Resource Policy Think Tank in the world in a survey by the University of Pennsylvania published in January 2013.