SLIDE 5 The Harwell EnergyTec Cluster
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Vision: To develop innovative new technologies to meet national and global energy challenges, enabled by bringing together world-leading capabilities and skills. Target: 100 organisations employing 1,000 specialists by 2028
- Considerable heritage
- UK’s nuclear research centre since 1946
- GLEEP test reactor first to successfully generate nuclear energy in Europe
(1947)
- World’s first experimental ‘fast’ reactor, Zephyr (1954)
- Harwell facilities such as Diamond, ISIS and Catalysis hub at the Research
Complex are used extensively for energy-related research
- e.g. 13% of the research done on ISIS is energy related
- UKERC Energy Data Centre - a key part of the Energy Systems Catapult’s new
Energy Knowledge Exchange
- Topics include: battery technology, energy production, energy storage, energy
conversion, energy efficiency and catalysis
- Harwell’s energy community and collaborations extend to over 30 universities
plus Toyota, Johnson Matthey, Siemens, Merck, Ceres et al.
- Faraday Institution HQ is located at Harwell
- UK’s independent center for electrochemical energy storage science and
technology, supporting research, training, and analysis.
