The 2018 UK heatwave has reached record breaking temperatures, enforced hosepipe bans, caused wildfires and increased requirements for artificial cooling. Professor Yulong Ding, spoke to BBC World News about the growing global need for cooling, its consequences and the possible solutions.
Leading academics have for the first time, measured Great Britain's hourly local demand for natural gas, providing insights into the gas consumption that helps keep the country warm.
BEI was honoured to welcome Dr. Bachir Ismaël Ouédraogo, Energy Minister for Burkina Faso. He learnt about our world leading research and explored how Burkina Faso and the University of Birmingham might collaborate.
As part of the £4m EPSRC - funded Multi-Scale Analysis for Facilities for Energy Storage (MANIFEST) project, the research consortium is offering eligible post-doctoral researchers support to visit partner institutions as part of a researcher exchange programme. Apply by 15 August 2018.
Eddie Hughes MP, member for Walsall North, visited the Birmingham Energy Institute to learn more about its world-leading research into the next generation of energy storage technology.
Toby Peters, Professor in Cold Economy at the Birmingham Energy Institute, discusses 'A Cool World – Defining the Energy Conundrum' – a new University of Birmingham report, set out to provide an initial indication of the scale of the energy implications of cooling for all.
Soaring global need for cooling by 2050 could see world energy consumption for cooling increase five times – according to a new report by the University of Birmingham, UK.