Sustainable Power Generation and Supply (SUPERGEN)
| SUPERGEN is the UK EPSRC's flagship initiative in Sustainable Power Generation and Supply, a part of the Research Councils' Energy Programme. |
| The first SUPERGEN consortia were launched in November 2003 and there have been a total of ten consortia funded. These consortia are: |
* Marine energy (£2.6 million over 4 years).
* Future network technologies (£3.4 million over 4 years).
* Hydrogen energy (£3.5 million over 4 years).
* Biomass, biofuels and energy crops (£2.9 million over 4 years).
* Photovoltaic (solar cell) materials (£3.1 million over 4 years).
* Conventional power plant lifetime extension (£2.1 million over 4 years).
* Fuel cells (£2.1 million over 4 years).
* Highly distributed power systems (£2.6 million over 4 years).
* Energy storage (£2.2 million over 4 years).
Excitonic solar cells (£1.1 million over 4 years). |
| For details of SUPERGEN, please see the EPSRC website: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/ResearchFunding/Programmes/Energy/Funding/SUPERGEN/default.htm |
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