Cranfield opens clean energy research centre 29 November 2012

Cranfield University's new £2 million energy laboratory was opened on Tuesday 27 November (2012) by Jonathan Holyoak, head of policy for the Office of Carbon Capture and Storage.

It comes just one week after publication of a study by the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Cost Reduction Task Force, which showed significant potential for the CCS industry, likely to bring investment and jobs across the whole energy sector.

The laboratory is equipped with a range of near industrial-scale equipment for R&D on clean and renewable energy technologies, and supports research into CCS, clean fossil fuel technologies, bioenergy and energy-from-waste.

"Carbon Capture and Storage has huge potential to deliver cost-competitive, low-carbon generation but the challenge is how we realise this potential quickly so we can meet our policy objectives in the 2020s," commented Holyoak.

"Facilities such as Cranfield's Energy Technology Laboratory, which is part of the new UK CCS Research Centre, are important in ensuring we are able to achieve this and it is great to see things actually happening."

John Oakey, professor of energy technology and head of Cranfield's Centre for Energy and Resource Technology, added: "This new laboratory, which is available for industry and other universities to use, is a great leap forward in the UK's research capability in clean energy technologies."

Brian Tinham

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