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Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee on Leaving the EU: energy and climate negotiation priorities

On 21 March Professor Michael Pollitt gave evidence to the House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee on leaving the EU: energy and climate negotiation priorities. The w itnesses were: Dr Nina Skorupska CBE, Chief Executive, Renewable Energy Association, Nick Winser CBE, Deputy President of...

House of Lords Economic Affairs Report - ‘The Price of Power: Reforming the Electricity Market’

The House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs has published its report entitled ‘The Price of Power: Reforming the Electricity Market’. The Committee examined the impact of the policies of successive governments on the electricity market. In its report the Committee identifies two key failures in the current...

Reforming the Chinese Electricity Supply Sector: Lessons from International Experience

Prof Michael Pollitt, Chung-Han Yang and Hao Chen have released an EPRG Working Paper titled: 'Reforming the Chinese Electricity Supply Sector: Lessons from International Experience'. This was one of the outputs from a trip to China and meetings with electricity industry stakeholders in Beijing and Yunnan. The objective of...

Maxwell Centre Annual Research Showcase

The Maxwell Centre was launched in April 2016, as a centrepiece for industry engagement across Physical Sciences and Technology at the University of Cambridge. The first Annual Research Showcase event took place on 17 March 2017 to celebrate the breadth and quality of Cambridge research in the context of external...

£10m funding for advanced materials research awarded to the University of Cambridge

Research into improving energy storage, reducing power consumption and developing new energy-efficient devices received a boost with the announcement of £10m funding for new equipment at the University of Cambridge. The new funding is part of a £128million Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)...

£10m funding for advanced materials research awarded to the University of Cambridge

Research into improving energy storage, reducing power consumption and developing new energy-efficient devices received a boost with the announcement of £10m funding for new equipment at the University of Cambridge. This funding will be vitally important in terms of enabling what we do with advanced materials to be...

Professor Alison Smith featured on BBC's The Life Scientific

Alison Smith, Professor of Plant Biochemistry in the Department of Plant Sciences, whose research interests include algal synthetic biology, has been featured on the BBC's The Life Scientific. In her interview Alison Smith talks to Jim al-Khalili about the many varied uses of algae, as well as their often strange...

Keeping the lights on in Ghana

Dr Abu Yaya (Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ghana) has been working closely with Dr Kevin Knowles (Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge) on electroporcelain. Electroporcelain is a small but crucial component for power transmission, and Dr Yaya...

First meeting on EPRSC Networking Grant for The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) held in Cambridge

On 26 January the first meeting on the EPSRC Networking Grant for The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) was held in Cambridge. The £2 Million EPSRC Networking Grant is a partnership between four UK universities, Cambridge, Newcastle, Queen Mary and University College London and industry...

First meeting on EPRSC Networking Grant for The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) held in Cambridge

On 26 January the first meeting on the EPSRC Networking Grant for The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) was held in Cambridge and chaired by Prof Clare Grey. The £2 Million EPSRC Networking Grant is a partnership between four UK universities, Cambridge, Newcastle, Queen Mary and...

Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee on Leaving the EU: energy and climate negotiation priorities

House of Lords Economic Affairs Report - ‘The Price of Power: Reforming the Electricity Market’

Reforming the Chinese Electricity Supply Sector: Lessons from International Experience

Maxwell Centre Annual Research Showcase

£10m funding for advanced materials research awarded to the University of Cambridge

£10m funding for advanced materials research awarded to the University of Cambridge

Professor Alison Smith featured on BBC's The Life Scientific

Keeping the lights on in Ghana

First meeting on EPRSC Networking Grant for The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) held in Cambridge

First meeting on EPRSC Networking Grant for The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) held in Cambridge

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