The existing UK energy "strategy" appears to have suffered a terminal blow with the disappearance of two major new build projects.
Dr Jonathan Radcliffe, a Reader in Energy Systems and Innovation at the University of Birmingham, has been appointed to two new advisory roles to support UK energy research funding and a Parliamentary inquiry.
A UK-China collaborative project led by the Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage has led to the first commercial, large scale, composite Phase Change Material demonstration plant for curtailed wind power.
BEIS has awarded £350,000 to a consortium comprising the Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage, Aggregate Industries and Innovatium, for a first-time industrial application of liquid air energy storage technology.
An automated, self-contained miniature factory, developed by the Universities of Birmingham and Loughborough and the Manufacturing Technology Centre will help SMEs access the next generation of manufacturing techniques.
Over 300 guests from academia, industry and local government gathered together at ERA Vision – The Midlands Energy Conference to discuss the latest developments in energy research.
University of Birmingham experts have worked with one of China's biggest railway rolling stock companies to develop the world's first shipping container using materials that store and release cold energy.