We’re very excited to be unveiling 4 local energy system demonstrators as a result of energy revolution programme – showing how the future might look by deploying the latest innovations at town scale in projects across the UK.
It’s been over 160 years since Alexander Parkes created what many people regard to be the first thermoplastic, Parkesine, in Birmingham (that’s right – plastic is a UK innovation). Though Parkes himself never really achieved commercial success with his wonder …
Imagine if you ordered a new car and it came in a series of deliveries and put together by a series of different workers on your driveway. They work from a sheet drawing and can’t tell you exactly when it …
Energy transition is a hot topic right now. How do we plan for change, over what timescales, and how do we make sense of the direction of travel? But there have been numerous energy transitions to learn from in the …
Imagine if the schools we built as a nation helping pupils achieve better educational performance just from the way they were designed. What if UK homes were all built with integrated energy generation and storage meaning most people had zero …
What Industrial Strategy Challenge am I leading? I’m leading the Energy Revolution Challenge which aims to demonstrate innovative new ways of delivering cheaper, cleaner energy services to meet the needs of future consumers by intelligently joining up local energy …
What Industrial Strategy Challenge am I leading? I am the interim Challenge Director for Transforming Construction, which seeks to change the way we deliver the buildings the UK needs. We want to provide places to live and learn that are …
The energy system of the future won’t look like today’s. The scale of change over the next 10 to 20 years will be considerable and, while we don’t know exactly what this change will look like, we do know some …
If you are like me the start of UK winter may fill you with slight dread. As I head into my second UK winter this dread is exacerbated by my new, cold apartment which has a heating system (combi-heater) without …
I was working in the yachting industry when my team and I came up with ACT Blade’s big idea – using textile composites over traditional, heavier glass fibre. It was 2013 and the yachting industry was still suffering through the …
