- Renewable energy company Drax joins Boeing as the second founder member of the University of Sheffield's Energy Innovation Centre (EIC)
- Partnership will see Drax use Sheffield's world class research facilities to carry out research and development into next generation carbon capture and utilisation technologies
- Sheffield's Energy Innovation Centre offers partners from industry access to two of the University's world class research facilities with some of the largest and most exciting equipment in Europe to test new net zero and low carbon technologies
Renewable energy company Drax has become the latest founder member of the University of Sheffield's newly-launched Energy Innovation Centre. The new partnership will drive forward research into next generation carbon capture technology, including innovations in bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, or BECCS.
Drax joins Boeing as the second founder member of the Energy Innovation Centre (EIC), launched by the University of Sheffield Energy Institute, which offers partners from industry access to two of the University's newest world class research facilities. The first - the Sustainable Aviation Fuels Innovation Centre (SAF-IC), is a first-of-its-kind facility in the UK that tests and certifies new sustainable aviation fuels. The second, the Translational Energy Research Centre (TERC), contains pilot-scale production facilities suitable for investigating different methods of carbon capture, utilisation and storage.
