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Significant investment helps consolidate Loughborough as a leader in energy and climate change research

Posted on 27/12/08

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Significant investment helps consolidate Loughborough as a leader in energy and climate change research

Loughborough University is to further strengthen its position as a world-class research centre for energy and climate change with the appointment of eleven new academic staff, including Chairs in Renewable Energy, Building Performance Modelling, Hydroclimatic Modelling, and Photovoltaics for Power Systems.

The new posts which will be based in the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST), the Department of Geography and the Department of Civil and Building Engineering will help to tackle what many regard as the greatest challenge for the 21st century.

Loughborough has a made strategic commitment to support the UKs energy and climate change goals, says Professor Neil Halliwell, the Universitys Deputy Vice Chancellor. These new posts will help to advance the deployment of new low-carbon energy technologies, including the efficient generation and use of energy.

Loughborough already has an enviable reputation in renewable energy research. Over the last 15 years, CREST has become the pre-eminent centre in the UK for research in Renewable Energy, with particular focus on solar and wind power and power distribution systems. In 2005 the University established the Research School in Sustainability, to promote interdisciplinary collaboration between experts across the University in wide-ranging, world-class research activities.

Last year, the Midlands Consortium, comprising the universities of Loughborough, Birmingham and Nottingham, was selected to host the 1 billion national Energy Technologies Institute. Its headquarters are based on the Loughborough campus.

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