Providing clean energy & reducing carbon emissions
Finding ways to fuel our society while reducing carbon emissions and avoiding other negative environmental and social impacts, while providing access to the energy resources needed for healthy lives and economy locally and globally, is an imperative. We are entering a paradigm shift into new ways of generating, regulating, governing and using energy, covering electricity, heat, and transport.
Keele is well placed to be a leader in contributing to this shift in energy paradigm through its Smart Energy Network Demonstrator exploring digital technologies and governance mechanisms to balance decentralised supply and demand, the HyDeploy project, trialing the injection of hydrogen into the gas network, and through significant generation of energy through renewables and the development of new clean technologies.
Equally important is an understanding of the societal response to this changing energy paradigm, and the impact on consumer behaviour, and ensuring equitable access and benefits to all energy users. This challenge encompasses this range of issues and their interactions both within the Keele campus, and at the broader regional, national and global scales.
This challenge theme supports the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:
A ground-breaking green energy trial
Pollution Know-how and Abatement project
A new zero carbon smart energy system
Smart, Infrastructure and Mobility Urban Laboratory and Test Environment
Smart Energy Network Demonstrator
Supporting Staffordshire Councils
Kerb-side EV Charging Project
A selection of published work
Our partners
