Research and Development UK

R&D UK is proud to be leading a consortium for a new electric vehicles project, known as V2GO. Co-funded by the Office for Low Emissions Vehicles, The Department for
Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy and delivered by Innovate UK, the project will develop new disruptive vehicle-to-grid models and technologies. Further information here.

R&D UK is helping to prevent jellyfish interfering with the water intake systems at nuclear power stations. Working with Plymouth Marine, R&D UK is using cutting edge ttechnology to predict jellyfish blooms and avoid power-plant interference. Further information here.

EDF Energy R&D UK has signed a 5-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement with BRE Group. The collaboration will be on a wide range of topics; the connectivity of wireless devices in the home and communications protocols, advanced energy efficiency technologies, Building Information Modelling (BIM), home energy storage and the electrification of heat and transport.

R&D UK has been selected to develop a project as part of the OFGEM regulatory sandbox. Leading a consortium with Electron, PassivSystems, Repowering London and University College London, R&D UK is trialling a local energy market based on a peer-to-peer energy trading platform. The platform will allow residential customers to control and manage their own low carbon energy supply, increasing auto-consumption and reducing their energy costs. Further information here.

The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) are producing a set of guidelines to improve the understanding of threats to UK infrastructure from natural hazards such as extreme wind, flooding and hail. Led by the EDF Energy R&D UK and supported by the Met Office and Mott MacDonald, the guide will be made available to industry, academia and individuals by the of 2018 through the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). Further information here.