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Ofgem is seeking views on proposals about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) should be used responsibly and safely in the energy sector to encourage more innovation.

Yes, you read that right – float. You may have seen a wind turbine in the sea before, but chances are you were looking at a “fixed” turbine – that is, one that sits on top of a foundation drilled into the seabed. For the new frontier of offshore wind power, the focus is on floating wind t...

Academics at the University of Oxford have called for rigorous net zero ‘ground rules’ – encompassing laws, regulation and policy – to be implemented and enforced across the world, in an article published in Nature Climate Change.

NHS Scotland has installed a solar car park and electric vehicle charging hub at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.

The Department of Physics at the University of Oxford is delighted to be part of the brand new EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Superconductivity: Enabling Transformative Technologies.

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training has announced its investment in some news CDTs, one of which is ‘Superconductivity: Enabling Transformative Technologies’, and is co-led by Professor Susie Speller.

The global energy transition could happen sooner than anticipated if sensitive intervention points are used to deliver China’s carbon neutrality policy at the city-level, researchers from the University of Oxford and The Chinese University of Hong Kong have outlined.

Dr Radhika Khosla, Associate Professor at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Research Letters, IOP Publishing’s flagship journal for inter-disciplinary environmental research.

The University of Oxford is to be a partner for the ZEBAI project (Zero-Emission and cost-effective Buildings based on Artificial Intelligence); a major new initiative which aims to revolutionise the way Zero-Emission buildings are designed. The project, backed by 3.8 million Euros of funding fro...

Advanced AI systems are coming under increasing critcism for how much energy they use. But it’s important to remember that AI could also contribute in various ways to our response to climate change.