Energy as a service to sustainable and inclusive development, avoiding unintended environmental and societal consequences.

Our Vision

The Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy:

  • Sees energy as a service to human development
  • Believes energy provision must be sustainable and accessible to all, avoiding unintended environmental and societal consequences.
  • Takes a holistic, whole-system and life-cycle approach to energy.
  • Tackles global sustainability challenges where the energy vector has a key role to play in supporting sustainable pathways to 2050 and beyond.
  • Works closely with local communities, local authorities, charities and NGOs, national and international professional organisations, governments and industry
  • Acts as a neutral platform for progressive dialogue among key stakeholders, facilitating advancements towards timely implementation of sustainable energy solutions at multiple scales.
  • Serves our University, Glasgow, Scotland, the UK and the world.

Contact Us

contactus-sustainableenergy@glasgow.ac.uk

 

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News

  • 13 Feb

    UofG launches Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy

    The University of Glasgow is launching a new research centre focused on supporting the global transition to sustainable, low-carbon energy systems. The Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy brings together academics from across the University to find interdisciplinary new ways of delivering the radical reform of energy services and infrastructure required to reach net-zero.
  • 30 Jun

    ‘Right size, right place’ approach required for climate adaptation plans

    The research is one of the outcomes from the Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transformation (GALLANT) project, led by the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Sustainable Solutions. GALLANT, which is supported by £10.5m from the Natural Environment Research Council, is working with 29 programme partners including Glasgow City Council to develop new methods of climate resilience which also address health, social and economic inequalities.
  • 23 Jun

    Turn on, tune in, crop out: £20 device uses ultrasound to produce fertiliser

    A £20 device which makes fertiliser by treating water with ultrasound could transform agricultural supply chains in remote areas, its inventors say. The prototype process could be scaled up to enable individual farmers to make their own fertilisers on demand in the future. That, in turn, could reduce the carbon footprint of the agriculture sector, which currently relies on complex, expensive, and fossil-fuel driven factories for large-scale production of fertilisers like ammonia.
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Events

GCSE Sustainable Energy Zoomposium (Monthly)

Lively interdiciplinary sessions held online monthly for UofG colleagues, who can contact us for information on the next sesssion or on how to become a presenter.  Recordings from previous Zoomposium are publically available here. 


GCSE Early Career Researcher Network

Regular events are held by our ECR network. Watch this space for more information