Modern society functions due to the consumption of energy: keeping our buildings comfortable, powering appliances, fuelling vehicles, lighting streets, homes and offices. Further, the point of use is where our energy systems interact with people’s lives.
Research and Knowledge Exchange academics at Strathclyde are at the forefront of multi-discipline research and KE into the use of energy in all its forms, helping to improve the energy efficiency and performance of our buildings, assessing the impact of the electrification of heat and transport, investigating the potential for flexible energy use, assessing the performance of new transport fuels such as hydrogen, providing new tools to predict energy performance, developing new ways to display and act on energy data, and improving the monitoring of energy performance and its impacts in areas such as air quality.
Key expertise include:
- modelling, testing and implementing demand management and demand response schemes;
- low carbon heating and cooling;
- ultralow-carbon building design;
- hydrogen energy systems;
- monitoring of energy use and environmental conditions;
- local microgeneration technologies;
- development of advanced energy modelling tools.