Energy as a service to sustainable and inclusive development, avoiding unintended environmental and societal consequences.

Our Vision

The Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy:

  • Sees energy as a service to human development
  • Believes energy provision must be sustainable and accessible to all, avoiding unintended environmental and societal consequences.
  • Takes a holistic, whole-system and life-cycle approach to energy.
  • Tackles global sustainability challenges where the energy vector has a key role to play in supporting sustainable pathways to 2050 and beyond.
  • Works closely with local communities, local authorities, charities and NGOs, national and international professional organisations, governments and industry
  • Acts as a neutral platform for progressive dialogue among key stakeholders, facilitating advancements towards timely implementation of sustainable energy solutions at multiple scales.
  • Serves our University, Glasgow, Scotland, the UK and the world.

Contact Us

contactus-sustainableenergy@glasgow.ac.uk

 

Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy film

Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy film

Find out more about the Centre in this short film.

Main Building

Our team

Meet the people who make up the Centre

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What we work on

Find out more about the research themes we're working on in the Centre

Spotlight stories

See highlights of what we do and how we engage with our community

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News

  • 13 Feb

    UofG launches Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy

    The University of Glasgow is launching a new research centre focused on supporting the global transition to sustainable, low-carbon energy systems. The Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy brings together academics from across the University to find interdisciplinary new ways of delivering the radical reform of energy services and infrastructure required to reach net-zero.
  • 12 Aug

    Researchers will pioneer use of digital twins to decarbonise the UK’s transport

    A new national hub focused on rapidly decarbonising transport in the UK, including road, rail, air and maritime, has secured £46 million from the UK government and almost 70 partners. The TransiT Hub, a collaboration of eight universities and 67 partners jointly led by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow, has secured £20 million in funding from the UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
  • 12 Jun

    Solar-powered mobile music studio hits Glasgow's streets

    UofG academics are working with a unique solar-powered mobile music recording and live production studio called the Phonoautobothy, that will power a number of music events in Glasgow. Professor Matt Brennan and Dr Graeme Hunt, both based at the University of Glasgow, are leading on a groundbreaking 'Dear Green Music Scene' project, working together with Idlefield Art Lab on the Phonoautobothy.
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Events

Sustainable Energy Zoomposium 

Next Zoomposium: 14 October 2024
View recordings from previous zoomposia

 

GCSE Early Career Researcher Network: Initial Event

The first GCSE Early Career Researcher Network event took place on 20 Sept. You can read the highlights here 

To find out more about the GCSE ECR community contact: contactus-sustainableenergy@glasgow.ac.uk 

 

GCSE Internal Workshop

The ARC, Friday 1 November (details TBC)

To register interest, please email: contactus-sustainableenergy@glasgow.ac.uk