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04/10/2023

TechUK: Event Round-Up – Industries of the Future: Space

This webinar explored the space industry of tomorrow and panellists spoke about what steps the UK can take to become a superpower across a broad spectrum of emerging and transformative space technologies. The Industries of the Future series explores how emerging and enabling technologies are transforming key industries around the world, assessing the challenges and […]

Events

21/02/2023

The Power of the Sun: Workshop on Space Based Solar Power

4 May – 9am-4:30pm, Bristol, England Space Based Solar Power represents an attractive source of clean and sustainable energy, which could form part of the UK Net Zero commitment. However, to make the transition from concept to implementation, there are a number of important challenges which need to be addressed. This workshop will allow the […]

Events

08/02/2023

Space Solar: Satellites, the Space Energy Initiative and Beyond

Thursday 9 March – 2-4pm GMT Photovoltaics have been powering satellites in space for over 50 years, and payloads such as the Hubble Space Telescope and Ingenuity (the Mars Helicopter) depend upon them. The major driving force in PV technologies for space applications has long been maximising the Specific Power of the PV system, minimising […]

Events

06/07/2022

Event Follow Up: UK Saudi Renewable Energy Forum

The Saudi British Joint Business Council (SBJBC) hosted the UK/Saudi Renewable Energy Forum in London on 28 June 2022. The Forum focused on investment and partnership opportunities in renewable energy and cleantech, including hydrogen, and the finance available. Building on the success of the SBJBC’s Sustainable Investment Forum in July 2021 and the increasing cooperation […]

Events

16/03/2022

Space Energy Initiative launch event in the House of Commons: The Space Energy Initiative lays out the ambition to provide solar energy from space by 2040, accelerating the global transition to Net Zero.

Mark Garnier MP, Chair of the Space Energy Initiative Advisory Board, today announced the launch of the Space Energy Initiative (SEI), a UK-led partnership to build a new global programme to accelerate society’s transition to carbon net zero targets. SEI brings together fifty organisations across industry sectors, government and academia, and agencies. By working together, […]

Events

16/02/2022

The Actionable Futurist: Panel session hosted at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers – Space Based Solar Power – a Futurist’s dream or a real option for net-zero?

Watch the event recording here>> With all of the recent discussions around net-zero, and surge pricing in the UK, energy is now front-page news. We all accept that fossil fuel is not a sustainable form of energy, and renewable energy such as solar and wind have issues – when it is cloudy or calm. To […]

Events

06/12/2021

ESA International Workshop: Space-Based Solar Power for Net Zero

An international workshop to plan ESA’s next steps towards providing clean energy from space for a greener Earth. Want to know about how space could provide clean energy to society to enable the transition to a Net Zero carbon world by 2050? The European Space Agency is holding an online 2-day international workshop on Space […]