Facilities
Across our five integral research pillars, we have a range of outstanding specialist facilities that enable us to connect with partners in industry and other world-leading institutes.
Energy Innovation Centre (EIC)
The Energy Innovation Centre is a world-leading research, development and demonstration hub, pioneering innovative technologies to deliver sustainable, secure energy and tackle climate change. The EIC was launched with the strategic merger of two renowned research centres at the University of Sheffield: the Translational Energy Research Centre (TERC) and the Sustainable Aviation Fuels Innovation Centre (SAF-IC). It offers advanced capabilities for green and blue hydrogen production and storage, including the largest capacity to produce green hydrogen of any UK university and the UK’s first molten carbonate fuel cell to capture CO2 and produce electrical energy.
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The Centre for Research into Electrical Energy Storage and Applications (CREESA)
The Centre for Research into Electrical Energy Storage and Applications (CREESA) hosts the UK's only research-led, large scale, energy storage test facility. This dedicated national research facility has been designed to offer enhanced frequency response to peaks in energy demand and is available to be used by other academic and industrial projects for their research and to test new technologies. More recently, this facility has been set up as a test bed for Industry 4.0, and in collaboration with industrial partners, is used for battery digitisation research with reference to the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing. On the university campus, there is over 500sqm of laboratory space dedicated to energy storage research hosting state-of-the-art equipment to support researchers and industry in tackling the latest challenges.
Explore our research on electrical energy storage
The Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)
The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) is a world-leading cluster for research, innovation and training. Part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult network, it has almost 100 industrial partners and works with manufacturing companies of all sizes from across the globe to deliver cutting-edge products and processes, and train new talent and skills. The AMRC is driving sustainable manufacturing technologies for net zero, creating the vital step-changes needed in the low-carbon transition to help businesses increase economic performance, boost productivity and sharpen their competitive edge.
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MIDAS
MIDAS is a national user facility, established to provide academic, public and private sector organisations with access to state of the art equipment to support world leading research in the management and disposal of radioactive wastes from the nuclear fuel cycle. Access to the MIDAS Facility is open to academic, public and private sector organisations and is facilitated by an experienced team of researchers who can provide advice and guidance on utilising facility equipment to meet your research needs.
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S2GRE: Siemens Gamesa
Siemens established its UK wind turbine generator R&D competence centre at the University of Sheffield in 2009. Our partnership with Siemens Gamesa focuses on developing the most reliable, innovative and efficient wind turbine generators. The constant dialogue between the University’s experts and Siemens Gamesa engineers translates into real world solutions with benefits to both the wind industry and the environment.
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Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre
The Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre (AREC) is a facility to promote the collaboration between industry and academia, and provide a platform for access to policy makers in order to meet the challenge of promoting resource efficiency and sustainability across supply chains. AREC supports the development of resource sustainable supply chains by proposing new ways of reducing risk for partners in overcoming the challenges of resource availability.
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Contact
Get in touch to find out more: energyinstitute@sheffield.ac.uk