The Community Energy Demonstrator is located on the Trent Basin, in Nottingham. The Trent Basin development is the UK’s first innovative local community energy business model underpinning 450 new build homes and a future school. A local community energy system pools renewable energy generated by individual households. After storing this in a community battery it is then either used locally or, when the price is favourable, sold to the grid. A community scale delivers more efficient use of...

MFM is a CAV testbed based in the West Midlands, part of the "CAM Testbed UK" group of facilities. 

Details on the testbed can be found at https://midlandsfuturemobility.co.uk/

The goals of the testbed are to support CAV/CAM developers to cement the UK as one of the best places in the world to develop CAV technologies, addressing and capturing a reported £62Bn market for the UK.

A report by the Automotive Council (known as "GRAVITAS") highlighted 5 years ago the need for enhancement of...

What it does: Archaeological Projects is a team of expert archaeologists who undertake nationally significant research and excavation, to contribute to the understanding, preservation and enjoyment of our historic environment and cultural heritage. Our team includes wide-ranging expertise, and has a close working relationship with an unparalleled network of multi disciplinary specialists. The team uses and develops digital recording methodologies: direct to digital recording, including in-trench...

QuantIC is the UK Quantum Technology Hub in Quantum Enhanced Imaging.  We bring together industry and academia in a collaborative project to revolutionise imaging across industrial, scientific and consumer markets.

Established in 2014, we are one of four Hubs that are part of the Government’s £1billion National Quantum Technology Programme set up to exploit the potential of quantum science and develop a range of emerging technologies.

QuantIC’s investigating team and their groups represent...

The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is the UK’s National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC) and forms part of the Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC) Environmental Data Service (EDS) - https://nerc.ukri.org/research/sites/environmental-data-service-eds/

We provide open access to over 100,000 datasets while managing and delivering in excess of 450 different oceanographic variables. BODC provides the user community with a centralised data ingestion-discovery-delivery service...

The research infrastructure is housed within the Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage (BCES) at the University of Birmingham. The focus of the assets and equipments is the formulation and characterization of new materials for thermal and thermochemical energy conversion and storage, specifically on composite phase change materials (cPCM), composite thermochemical materials (cTCM) and hybridization of cPCM and cTCM, covering a temperature range from extremely low temperature of -196oC  up to very...

The Thermal Energy Storage Materials Characterisation and Systems Testing Lab facilities at Loughborough enable investigations into alternative energy storage media, materials and properties that will be more robust and suitable for expected changes in both supply and demand. Demand for energy storage in a low carbon energy industry has grown, and energy predictability reduced, as a result of the electrical generation mix evolving to accommodate more wind and solar. The facilities are used in a...

The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland is a group of industry-led manufacturing research and development facilities transforming skills, productivity and innovation in Scotland helping to make the country a global leader in advanced manufacturing.  

The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland is at the heart of the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland in Renfrewshire. It is operated by the University of Strathclyde and supported by Scottish Government, Scottish...

The National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC) is part of the Natural Environment Research Council's (NERC) Environmental Data Service and is hosted by the British Geological Survey (BGS). We manage nationally important datasets concerned with geology, geoscience and the sub-surface.

Our staff help researchers in ensuring that the data they produce are curated appropriately for the long term, guaranteeing their security, accessibility and re-usability for the user community.

The NGDC is...

The Smart Grid laboratory at Durham University is equipped with the state-of-the-art real-time simulation equipment (RTDS and Opal-RT) together with a fully controllable Power Amplifier acting as a grid emulator and capable of synthesising voltages at both AC (single and three-phase) as well as DC. Meanwhile, the Smart Grid laboratory hosts a flexible low-voltage distribution network, which hosts facilities for emulating and integrating renewable generation resources (e.g. Solar PV and Wind) as...