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

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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

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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.
  • 28 Apr

    Industrial waste is turning to rock in just decades, research reveals

    Researchers from the University of Glasgow have found that slag, an industrial waste product produced by the steel industry, is turning into solid rock in as little as 35 years. In a paper published in the journal Geology, the researchers explain how detailed analysis of a two-kilometre stretch of slag deposit, at Derwent Howe in West Cumbria led to their discovery of a new Earth system cycle.
  • 17 Apr

    UofG spinout aims to transform realtime wireless sensing of train carriages

    A new generation of battery-free sensors could help make preventative maintenance and condition monitoring on rail carriages cheaper, easier, and more environmentally-friendly. The sensors are designed to be retro-fitted to existing rolling stock carriages, and could significant could significantly reduce the cost and environmental footprint of wiring in modern trains.
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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. 


All Energy (14 and 15 May 2025)

Find the GCSE community at stand P38 at the All Energy conference and exhibition at the SEC Glasgow on 14 and 15 May 2025. To find out more contact us


GCSE Early Career Researcher Network

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