The paper presented by Luke Blunden at the World Renewable Energy Congress WREC X in Glasgow was awarded best paper of the “Marine and Ocean Energy Technology” sessions. A total of 8 papers were presented at the conference by members of the group spanning the “Marine and Ocean Energy Technology”, “Wind Energy Applications” and “Low […]
The research on the Anaconda wave energy converter which is lead by Professor John Chaplin was covered in the New Scientist.
Dr. Patrick James of the Sustainable Energy Research Group was invited to contribute an article on “Beyond the boiler: low carbon technology opportunities” to the ICOM Energy Association’s 75th Anniversary Brochure. ICOM Energy Association
The UKÂ Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) lists the weather file generation tool (CCWeatherGen) developed by the Sustainable Energy Research Group as UKCIP02 extra on its website. The free tool which can be used for generating climate change weather files for building performance simulation programs can be downloaded from the SERG website. UK Climate Impacts Programme
Prof AbuBakr Bahaj and Dr Patrick James exhibited aspects of the group’s work at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, UAE. A 10th scale tidal stream turbine which is used to assess blade design was shown on the UK stand of the exhibition. Tidal stream energy is seen as one of the key […]
Prof. Lawrence L. Kazmerski Director of the National Center for Photovoltaics (NCPV) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, Colorado, USA
Dr William Batten, Dr Patrick James and Mark Jentsch were invited to take part in a renewable energy workshop in Malaysia as part of a UK delegation from three universities. The workshop was organised by the British Council Malaysia within the framework of the International Networking for Young Scientists (INYS) programme in order to bring […]
A delegation from the School of Civil Engineering and the Environment was invited to a workshop on environmental sustainability hosted by the University of California San Diego. Prof Charles Banks, Mark Jentsch, Prof AbuBakr Bahaj, Prof Mike McDonald and Prof Mutasem El-Fadel attended the workshop, which aimed to set up research partnerships between leading academics […]
Prof. Hans MĂĽller-Steinhagen Director, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, German Aerospace Centre and Institute of Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Germany view Prof. MĂĽller-Steinhagen’s presentation
Prof AbuBakr Bahaj was invited to give a presentation at the RSA on the ‘Exploitation of Ocean Currents and Waves for Electricity Generation’. The session was chaired by HRH Prince Philip. The event was sponsored by Sigma Capital Group plc. Briefing Note for the Talk: Exploitation of Ocean Currents and Waves for Electricity […]
