News News stories 20 February 2024 University of Sheffield’s Energy Innovation Centre partners with Drax to advance carbon capture research Renewable energy company Drax has become the latest founder member of the University of Sheffield’s newly-launched Energy Innovation Centre, to drive forward research into next generation carbon capture technology. 1 May 2024 Longer-life smart MOPO batteries bringing renewable energy to Africa Longer-life MOPO Batteries, which can help communities off-grid or with unstable power networks in Africa access clean and affordable energy, are being developed with the help of engineers from the University of Sheffield. 30 April 2024 Only four G20 countries set for positive ecological footprint by 2050, study finds The UK, along with 15 of the G20 nations, are forecast to have a negative ecological footprint by 2050, according to new research from the University of Sheffield. 25 April 2024 UK Clearing House for sustainable aviation fuels officially launches The UK sustainable aviation fuels Clearing House has officially launched, marking a major step in enabling the UK to bring new fuels to market and help reduce carbon emissions from the aviation industry. Search Exciting PhD projects underway thanks to Energy Institute studentships Earlier this year, the Energy Institute awarded two PhD studentships to projects which were aiming to tackle some of the most pressing energy challenges, and were interdisciplinary. Find out more about these projects from the students themselves. 31 October 2022 Improving the sustainability of agricultural waste for family farms in rural Colombia A project between the University of Sheffield and the Industrial University of Santander in Colombia has produced a new way of re-using agricultural waste so that rural farmers can produce their own heat and energy. 10 October 2022 A jet engine UK team images jet engine emissions in world-first A UK-based industrial-academic consortium, including researchers from the Energy Institute, has developed a new imaging technique to map the CO2 emissions of a jet engine in real time. 4 October 2022 | Published by The Engineer Solar powered cars: amazing vehicles that run on the sun Energy Institute members Alastair Buckley and David Lidzey were recently spoke to Auto Express about solar cars - what are the main issues and how could they be made a reality? 3 October 2022 | Published by AutoExpress Translational Energy Research Centre wins government funding for innovative BECCS-to-hydrogen project BIG-H2, which has been funded by the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP) under Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) will investigate the creation of an innovative BECCS-to-hydrogen solution. 9 August 2022 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Current page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 … Next page Next › Last page Last »