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UK-based specialist engineering company Strata Technology will collaborate with the Translational Energy Research Centre on its flagship Fischer-Tropsch rig reactor, which will be the first of its kind in Europe. On 26th March 2020 a project began between the Translational Energy Research Centre and Strata Technology to produce a state-of-the-art…

Dr Mohammed Ismail and EngD student Florence Lee from the Translational Energy Research Centre, part of the University of Sheffield’s Energy Institute, recently traveled to Japan to work alongside partner researchers at Kyushu University. A travel research grant sponsored by the Royal Society and Japanese Society for the Promotion of…

As of January 2020, works have begun on site for the construction of the Translational Energy Research Centre. Part of the University of Sheffield’s Energy Institute, the facility will bring together expert academics and local and national businesses to research and test new low-carbon technology solutions at a speed and…

Comment from Professor Jon Gibbins, University of Sheffield Energy Institute and Director of UK CCS Research Centre, on the National Grid report published on 10 September by OFGEM. This article was originally published by the University of Sheffield Energy Institute. National Grid’s report on the power cut in August shows how important…

Funding for a new £21 million Translational Energy Research Centre at the University of Sheffield will support the UK’s transition to a low-carbon economy, delivering the cleaner growth at the heart of government’s industrial strategy. Announced today (27 June 2019) by the Energy and Clean Growth Minister, Chris Skidmore MP,…

Access to affordable, secure and sustainable energy is a 21st century trilemma that needs solving. In sub-saharan Africa there are more people without electricity today than there were in 2000. Thousands of people in the UK can’t afford to heat their homes in the winter. And millions of people around…