Grand Challenges
Grand Challenges are multi disciplinary, multi-million pound research programmes that draw together expertise from across the College to help provide answers to the question of how we are going to sustainably generate, supply and utilise our energy in the future.
The Energy Futures Lab is involved in a number of large-scale projects:
Urban energy systems
A joint project between BP and Imperial to study how cities can use their resources most efficiently.
Find out more about the urban energy systems project
Clean fossil fuels
In collaboration with Shell, Imperial researchers are developing processes to improve extraction of difficult hydrocarbons with minimal greenhouse gas release.
Find out more about clean fossil fuels
New and renewable routes to solar hydrogen
An EPSRC funded project looking at the production of hydrogen from sunlight and water using biological and physical processes. This is one aspect of the Artificial Leaf project.
Find out more about solar hydrogen
Artificial Leaf
The Artificial Leaf project focuses on using sunlight to synthesise these chemical fuels.
Find out more about the artificial leaf project
Planet 2050
Planet 2050 is the joint intiative between the Energy Futures Lab and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change. It will explore the possible ways in which the UK can reach its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% (of 1990 values) by 2050.
