Energy efficiency research at the University of Cambridge cuts across all other energy research themes. Examples of key initiatives that focus on energy efficiency include:
- Integrated consideration of buildings, transport and urban planning, including the Energy Efficient Cities Initiative, which addresses energy demand reduction in the urban environment by integrating design and development of novel technologies for energy efficient cities, with links to economic, policy and regulatory considerations.
- Energy efficient buildings, using novel design and new technologies to reduce the energy consumed in business and domestic buildings, including the Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment project and work at the BP Institute on energy efficiency for HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning).
- Investigations into energy use, emissions, environmental impact, capital and operating costs of current and future transport technology and the system wide impact of technological innovations through the use of global transport demand modelling and transport system technology assessment.
- Energy efficient chemical, refining and materials production processes, as well as energy efficient recycling processes. This research is focussed in the Departments of Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology and Materials Science and Metallurgy.
- Investigations into global and regional energy demand scenarios and energy policy interventions to increase energy efficiency and reduce demand. Two of the largest research groups in Cambridge addressing these issues are the Energy Policy Research Group and the Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research.
- Optimising the design of the next generation radio telescope, the Square Kilometer Array, for low power consumption and utilisation of novel renewable energy technologies in a desert environment in the Cavendish Laboratory.
Please visit individual faculty profiles to learn more about their research in the Energy Efficiency theme.
People specializing in this area
Principal Investigators
Professor in Geotechnical Engineering
Member of Energy Transitions@Cambridge Strategic Advisory Board
Head of Department of Engineering
Professor of Superconducting Engineering
Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science
NUCLEAR ENERGY - functional inorganic and hybrid materials
PHOTOVOLTAICS - synthesis of novel phases of hybrid materials, chemical and structural characterisation, and study of their properties
ENERGY EFFICIENCY - functional inorganic and hybrid materials
Head of the Photonics & Sensors Group and the Chairman of the CAPE (Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics) Steering Committee
Royal Society University Research Fellow
Head of the Structure & Dynamics group, Cavendish Laboratory
Head of the Molecular Materials for the Photonics Group and Director of the Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics and Electronics
University Lecturer, Energy, Transport and Urban Infrastructure
Fellow, Graduate Tutor and Environment Committee Chair, Fitzwilliam College
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President of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Former Head of Department of Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chairman of the University Gas Turbine Partnership with Rolls Royce
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EPSRC Early Career Fellow/Winton Advanced Research Fellow
Professor of Nanotechnology and Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder
Head of the Nanomaterials and Spectroscopy Group
Professor of the Mathematics of Systems
Master of Christ's College
Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor of Geotechnical Engineering
Director of the Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics
Head of Electrical Engineering
Associate Members
Maxwell Centre Programme Manager
Knowledge Transfer Facilitator, Cavendish Laboratory
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Director, Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction
