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EPSRC Reference: EP/S032622/1
Title: Supergen Storage Network Plus 2019
Principal Investigator: Ding, Professor Y
Other Investigators:
Gormally, Dr A Garvey, Professor S Eames, Professor PC
Cruden, Professor A Wang, Professor J Islam, Professor S
Marco, Dr J Li, Professor Y Patsios, Dr C
Dutton, Professor SE Bruce, Professor P Strbac, Professor G
Brandon, Professor NP Shearing, Professor P Markides, Professor CN
Taylor, Professor PC Radcliffe, Professor J Grey, Professor CP
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Project Partners:
ABB Group Advanced Propulsion Centre UK Ltd (APC) Aggregated Micro Power Holdings
Atkins Cenex Doosan Power Systems
Flexible Power Systems GS Yuasa Battery (UK) H J Enthoven & Sons
Heatcatcher Ltd Highview Power Storage Innovatium
International Energy Storage Alliance ITM Power Plc Jaguar Land Rover Limited
Johnson Matthey Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership National Grid
Newcastle University Nexeon Ltd Northern Gas Networks
Northern Powergrid Oxis Energy Ltd PassivSystems Limited
Penso Power Pivot Power LLP Rolls-Royce Plc (UK)
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) Scottish Power Siemens
The Alan Turing Institute Williams Advanced Engineering Ltd
Department: Chemical Engineering
Organisation: University of Birmingham
Scheme: Standard Research
Starts: 02 September 2019 Ends: 01 September 2024 Value (£): 1,012,009
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Energy Storage
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Energy
Related Grants:
Panel History:
Panel DatePanel NameOutcome
28 Feb 2019 Supergen Energy Storage Network Plus 2019 Announced
Summary on Grant Application Form
Energy Storage (ES) has a key role to play as a part of whole UK and global energy systems, by providing flexibility, enhancing affordability, security and resilience against supply uncertainties, and addressing the huge challenges related to the climate change. Following UKRI investment over the last decade, the UK is in a strong position internationally in ES research and innovation. Although areas of UK expertise are world leading, there is little interaction between these areas and interplaying disciplines e.g. artificial intelligence, data and social sciences. This fragmentation limits the community's ability to deliver significant societal impact and threatens the continuity of delivering research excellence, missing opportunities as a result. Consequently, there is now an urgent need for the ES community to connect, convene and communicate more effectively. The proposed Supergen Storage Network Plus 2019 project (ES-Network+) responds to this need by bringing together 19 leading academics at different career stages across 12 UK institutions, with complementary energy storage (ES) related expertise and the necessary multidisciplinary balance to deliver the proposed programme.

The aim of the ES-Network+ is to create a dynamic, forward-looking and sustainable platform, connecting and serving people from diverse backgrounds across the whole ES value chain including industry, academia and policymakers. As a focal point for the ES community, we will create, exchange and disseminate ES knowledge with our stakeholders. We will nurture early career researchers (ECR) in ES and establish ambitious, measurable goals for equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI). We will complement existing activities (e.g. Faraday Institution, UKERC, Energy Systems Catapult, CREDS, other Supergen Hubs) to serve the UK's needs, delivering impact nationally and internationally.

The ES-Network+ will convene and support the ES community to deliver societal impact through technological breakthroughs, generating further value from the UKRI ES portfolio. It will be a secure and inclusive eco-system for researchers in ES & related fields to access, innovate, build and grow their UK and international networks. It is distinctive from the current Supergen Storage Hub: We have a PI with non-electrochemical background, an expanded investigator team with complementary expertise in energy network integration, mechanical and inter-seasonal thermal ES, hybrid storage with digital knowledge, cold storage, transport with ES integration, ES materials measurement & imaging and social science with policy implications. Early career researchers will hold key positions within the ES-Network+ and we will underpin all of our work with EDI values. We will develop an authoritative whitepaper for steering ES related decision-making, giving an overview of the ES community and a technical view on how ES research should be steered going forward.

The team is extremely well-connected to the ES industry and the wider energy community and has secured 57 supporting organisations, including energy production, transmission, distribution & network operation, specialist aggregators of heat & power, storage technology developers and integrators; ES related manufacturers, ES related recycling; and research institutes/centres/hubs/networks/associations both nationally and internationally. The supporting organisations also bring in a significant amount of extra resources to ensure a successful delivery of the ES-Network+.

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