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CESI: Centre for Energy Systems Integration

Securing and delivering a fully integrated future energy system for the UK.

Project leader

Prof Phil Taylor

Dates

September 2016 to September 2021

Project staff

Dr Sara Walker, Dr David Greenwood, Dr Adib Allahham, Dr Hamid Hosseini, Dr Zoya Pourmirza, Dr Mohammad Royapoor

Sponsors

EPSRC

Partners

CESI brings together more than 30 partners, including industry, academic institutions, and local authorities.

Description

CESI is a £20m national centre. It is primarily funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Siemens.

The Centre brings together energy experts from around the world. Together, we are helping to unravel the energy network. We are increasing our understanding of future supply and demand.

We draw upon the expertise of leading academics from the universities of Newcastle, Heriot-Watt, Sussex, Edinburgh and Durham.

The energy system as a whole comprises:

  • gas
  • power
  • renewables
  • transport
  • heating
  • cooling

The Centre paves the way to a flexible smart infrastructure. This will empower customers and give them greater control of their energy use. It allows industry to meet the tough new low carbon targets.

Providing robust messages about the real world, our aim is to understand how we can:

  • optimise the energy network
  • drive down customer bills
  • inform future government policy

Website: http://www.integridy.eu/

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