The Decarbonisation Network has secured some funding to increase academic-industry collaboration for the testing and characterisation of light harvesting materials and devices including solar cells, photoelectrochemical cells and photodetectors, among others.
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06Mar
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03MarHard to Decarbonise Technologies SIG: Decarbonisation of Transportation Networks using Digital Twins
Digital twins can pair the physical environment with the ‘virtual world’ via a digital duplicate. Panellists will discuss where the use of digital twins can help transportation networks decarbonise, and the challenges and limitations associated with adopting this technology.
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03Feb
Panellists will discuss the role physics and chemistry have in the production of biofuels and how synergies between these areas can emerge (i) to address basic science questions and (ii) to support the energy transition.
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14Dec
There are an increasing number of calls to scale up retrofit to improve the energy performance of the UK’s building stock. This requires the consideration of multiple factors including: stakeholder attitudes, supply chain capacity, financial incentives and technical barriers.
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07Dec
Regardless of how promising a new technology is, it can only be commercialised if there is a suitable manufacturing process to scale it up. Unfortunately, many impressive research projects on renewable energy are carried out without taking scale-up challenges into account.
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02Dec
There has been an increase in the number of campaigns arguing for the prioritisation of retrofit over demolition and rebuild, due to savings in materials and therefore embodied carbon.
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23Nov
For renewable energy systems of the future, energy storage will be essential to compensate for the supply and demand fluctuations, storing energy when output is high and releasing it when demand is high.
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16Nov
Solar photovoltaic technologies have potential to realise on- and off-grid energy solutions that could benefit much of the developing world. However, there are several challenges to realising widespread deployment of PV and related technologies in such countries.
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11Nov
Collaborative scoping session to help shape the potential Energy Technology Centre for Doctoral Training cutting across themes of future fuels, new cycles, LCA, nuclear and other topics. This would be likely a cohort of 15-20 students per year, funded by leveraged government-industry funding.
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19Oct
Register by emailing: energy@admin.cam.ac.uk or at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-heroes-of-the-energy-transition-zero-...