Collaborating for a Low Carbon Wales
The first LCRI conference “Collaborating for a Low Carbon Wales” took place successfully at the end of November. Covering the areas of Zero Carbon Built Environments, Photovoltaics, Large Scale Power Generation, Marine, Hydrogen and Bioenergy, the event attracted attendees from industry, policy and academia. Brisk discussions took place at the end of each of the sessions and during the evening forum.
137 people registered to attend the conference with 47 registrants from industry and good representation from local and Welsh government. A small exhibition space included a solar powered car brought to the event by the School of Science and Technology from Glyndŵr University.
Some of the conference presentations have been made available below:
Zero Carbon Built Environment
Chair: Professor Phil Jones (Welsh School of Architecture)
“Low Carbon Built Environment”
Professor Malcolm Eames (Welsh School of Architecture):
“Low Carbon Transitions and the Built Environment: A Socio-technical Perspective”
Mr. Mark Collinson (Corus Colors)
“The importance of collaborative research in delivering low carbon building solutions”
Mr. Phil Roberts (Warm Wales)
“A route to a low carbon built environment”
Photovoltaics
Chair: Professor Stuart Irvine (Centre of Solar Energy Research)
Professor Andy Evans (Aberystwyth University)
“New methods for characterising photovoltaic materials”
Dr. Vincent Barrioz (Centre of Solar Energy Research)
“From Materials Science to PV Module Technology”
Dr. Peter Holliman (Bangor University)
“Dye sensitized solar cells – SPARCing the future”
Dr. Daniel Nuh (Solar Source)
Industrial Response
Large Scale Power Generation
Chair: Professor Nick Syred (Cardiff University)
“Low carbon Wales and large scale power generation”
Dr Andrew Crayford (Cardiff University)
“GTRC Research Contribution“
Dr. Hans Jensen (RWE npower)
Industrial Response
Hydrogen
Chair: Professor Alan Guwy (Sustainable Environment Research Centre)
Mr. Jon Maddy (Sustainable Environment Research Centre)
“Hydrogen energy research at the University of Glamorgan”
Professor David Antonelli (Sustainable Environment Research Centre)
“Hydrogen storage using weak chemisorption interactions”
Mr. Ben Burggraaf (Corus Group)
“Creating a sustainable steel industry in South Wales”
Marine
Chair: Professor Mark Cross (Swansea University)
Dr. Ian Masters (Swansea University)
“Marine Energy Research Group: Industrial Drivers and Research Overview”
Professor Roger Falconer (Cardiff University)
“The Severn Barrage – opportunities and challenges”
Dr. Miles Willis (Swansea University)
“Overview of the Marine LCRI Convergence Programme”
Bioenergy
Chair: Dr Iain Donnison (Institute of Biological Environmental and Rural Sciences)
“Bioenergy”
Dr. Kerrie Farrar (Institute of Biological Environmental and Rural Sciences)
“Bioenergy research at IBERS”
Dr Rob Elias (Biocomposites Centre, Bangor University)
“Adding value to co-products from bio-energy processing”
Dr. Gabriel Gallagher (Sustainable Energy)
Industrial Response