14.07.10: The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) has awarded two new Interdisciplinary Studentships in Sustainable Energy, funding research on:

• Designing New Woodfuel Forests to Supply Multiple Ecosystem Services

• Optimisation of Interseasonal Ground Source Heat Pumps with Predictive Behavioural Control

09.07.10: Five leading scientists from the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) have been selected as Lead Authors for the UN’s fifth Climate Change Assessment Report.

02.07.10: UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) Research Director and leading climate change expert Professor Jim Skea OBE FEI warns that UK politicians must maintain their will, gain buy-in from business and achieve social consent if the UK is to meet its ambitious energy goals.

14.06.10: The world’s leading intellects in energy research will arrive in Warwick this month for the annual UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) Summer School, held at the University of Warwick from 21-25 June 2010.

London, 2nd June 2010

The European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) - of which UKERC is the UK representative - is launching a series of new Joint Research Programmes which will see major European research institutions working together for the first time.

29.03.10

The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) has commissioned four ambitious research projects worth £1.6m through its new Research Fund.

The projects address three key energy challenges:

- The potential contribution of carbon capture and storage

- Spatial aspects of UK bio-energy development

- Local and community governance of energy