Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy

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• 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.
• 14 Jan

  Recovering tropical forests grow back nearly twice as fast with nitrogen

  In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Glasgow in the UK and the Cary Institute in the USA suggest that that if recovering tropical forests had enough nitrogen in their soils, they might absorb up to an additional 820 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year for a decade.
• 13 Jan

  Digital twin tech could help slash ‘phantom load’ waste

  Adopting digital twin technology to manage the power consumption of idle devices could save organisations thousands of pounds a year and help reduce their carbon footprint, new research suggests. Engineers from the University of Glasgow’s James Watt School of Engineering have developed a prototype of a digital tool which can monitor and manage ‘phantom load’, the electricity consumed by devices like computers or office equipment when they are plugged into mains power but are not in active use.