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With the world's energy demand growing and many traditional sources arguably unsustainable, we need to address a vast range of issues. Through our expertise, knowledge partnerships and resources we are engaging with industry to help find real solutions and alternatives to the challenges we are facing. Through such collaborations our students gain a broad experience, helping us to educate and shape the energy professionals that will continue to play a critical role in the energy landscape for many years to come.

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Energy lights and heats our buildings, feeds our transport systems, enables business and industry and fuels the global economy, and yet in the twenty-first century over a billion people worldwide still live without electricity in their homes. We are facing our biggest challenge; how do we develop an infrastructure which can give us the energy services we want, and make them accessible to all, without undermining the ecosystem which sustains our existence?