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Energy Research Topics: Renewable Energy
Active Projects
- UKERC Energy Demand Theme:
2009 - 2014
- Transport modelling - Christian Brand
- Microgeneration - Noam Bergman
- Social science - Katy Janda, Yael Parag
- Electrification of heat - Noam Bergman, Tina Fawcett, Nick Eyre
- SuperGen HiDEF (Highly Distributed Energy Future)
- EVALOC – evaluating effectiveness of DECC-funded low carbon communities
Projects Archive
- Supergen Project: How will the electricity network function if there are millions of small scale distributed electricity generators?
Aug 05 - Jul 08
The Supergen project investigates how to coordinate the effective operation of small distributed energy resources across the national grid.
- Installing renewable energy systems on two remote rural clinics in Ghana
2009
In partnership with the Sindicatum Climate Change Foundation, ECI helped to install renewable energy systesm in these remote african villages.
- Supergen Project: How will the electricity network function if there are millions of small scale distributed electricity generators?
Aug 05 - Jul 08
The Supergen project investigates how to coordinate the effective operation of small distributed energy resources across the national grid.
- Solar Schools
Jan 05 - Jun 06
This project aims to enhance sustainable energy education, by providing educational materials, presentations, lists of sites to visit, twinning of schools and international competitions for both primary and secondary schools.
- Solar Monitoring at West Oxfordshire District Council
Completed 05
Building on the PV-Compare project which examined solar panels in two test environments, this project is now testing solar panels which are up and running in their actual environment: the West Oxfordshire District Council.
- PV Compare: which are the outstanding solar photovoltaic tecnologies?
Completed 03
The ECI's PV Compare project has tested PV arrays in Mallorca and Oxford with the objective of comparing all the emerging PV technologies in situ at two very contrasting locations.