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A specialist software company is the latest industrial partner to get involved with the Manufacturing Technology Centre’s ERA funded ‘Factory in a Box’ initiative.…

Startup company char.gy has created a new electric vehicle charging point product which can be easily installed onto existing lampposts.

The University of Birmingham is investing £2.5 M in the Tyseley Energy Park (TEP) to work towards overcoming challenges such as energy poverty and poor air quality in the West Midlands

In this blog in Insider, Emma Kelly, Chief Operating Officer of ERA puts forward the case for the Midlands to become the centre of the UK's energy market.

A ground-breaking community energy scheme, which enables residents to generate, store and use solar electricity, has been officially switched on in Nottingham...

In his final blog for ERA, Chief Executive, Gordon Waddington, discusses the need for industry and academia to come together to develop the disruptive technologies that will be needed to achieve the government's aim of reducing CO2;emissions by 80%

Read the latest edition of Accelerate, the newsletter from the Energy Research Accelerator (ERA). In this issue: new battery testing facility, Regional Energy Policy Commission launch event, doctoral researchers workshop and news from our partners

The University of Nottingham is partnering with the Energy Research Accelerator (ERA) and CPL Industries to produce a commercial scale facility capable of converting biomass into next-generation solid fuels with coal-like properties

In this blog, Gordon Waddington, Chief Executive of the Energy Research Accelerator (ERA), examines the UK's move towards a low carbon economy, and suggests that the Midlands is ideally placed to take advantage of the opportunities this will create