Energy & Net Zero

Four projects linked to the University of Glasgow which are aiming to help Scotland reach net-zero through renewable hydrogen have won more than £1.3m in new funding from the Scottish Government.

Scotland is set to establish a Hydrogen Innovation Centre at the University of Glasgow to accelerate the development of hydrogen technologies. The centre will provide a platform for academic research groups and commercial enterprises from across Scotland to take hydrogen technologies from experimental proof-of-concept through to small prototype stage.

A new study by a University of Glasgow led research centre has found that the UK housing sector is lagging over 30% behind neighbouring countries when it comes to the adoption of heat pumps, despite their enormous potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide cost savings for households.

The team from Marine Biopolymers and The University of Glasgow’s School of Chemistry recently received funding from the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) to explore the use of tailored alginates – a naturally-occurring material found in brown seaweed – to help develop batteries using silicon as an alternative to the…