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.

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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.
  • 09 Sep

    Clyde Hydrogen powers ahead with Ecotricity investment

    Clyde Hydrogen, a University of Glasgow spinout, has secured strategic investment from green energy pioneer Ecotricity to fast-track development of its revolutionary hydrogen technology. The deal, which closes Clyde Hydrogen’s Pre-Seed2 funding round, will see the company test its prototype energy storage system at one of Ecotricity’s renewable energy sites in the UK.
  • 07 Aug

    Ultrasound system can remove common plastic pollutant from water

    The system developed by chemists from UofG can scrub up to 94% of the traces of Bisphenol A (BPA) from samples of contaminated water by using ultrasound to create conditions similar to the surface of the sun in bubbles of contaminated water. Scaled-up versions of their prototype could be used in water treatment plants to help remove BPA from water supplies. It could also help industry remove BPA and other hard-to-treat pollutants from waste water before it is discharged into public waterways.
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Events

GCSE Sustainable Energy Zoomposium (Monthly)

Lively interdiciplinary sessions held online monthly for UofG colleagues, who can contact us for information on the next sesssion or on how to become a presenter.  Recordings from previous Zoomposium are publically available here. 


GCSE Early Career Researcher Network

Regular events are held by our ECR network. Watch this space for more information