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11/03/2022

Space Energy Initiative Launch

We’re proud to celebrate the official launch of the Space Energy Initiative. Mark Garnier MP, Chair of the Space Energy Initiative Advisory Board, extended personal invitations to join him and the rest of the Advisory Board for a reception to celebrate the launch of the Space Energy Initiative. The event took place on Thursday 10 […]

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09/03/2022

Wall Street Journal: The Next Bets for Renewable Energy

With enormous kites that pull shipping vessels across oceans using wind power, floating devices attached to jetties that generate electricity from the motion of waves hitting the shore, and other new technologies, companies are looking to diversify options for harnessing familiar sources of renewable energy in innovative ways. Many of these innovations aim to overcome […]

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 […]

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08/12/2021

Parliament Live TV: Science and Technology Committee debating UK Space Strategy

There was a Science and Technology Committee inquiry into the UK Space Strategy on 8th December, chaired by Greg Clark MP. Sir Martin Sweeting talks about the UK strengths in the field of in-orbit assembly, space robotics, and autonomous systems, and he mentions Space-Based Solar Power at 9:50:00 as a future application requiring in orbit […]

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 […]

News

06/12/2021

In-Orbit Podcast: Space-Based Solar Power

SEI members Martin Soltau and Ali Stickings, from Frazer-Nash Consultancy, and David Homfray, from the Satellite Applications Catapult are guests on the Catapult’s In-Orbit Podcast, exploring Space-Based Solar Power. Click this link to listen >> Since the birth of space exploration, we have been transfixed with not only the spectacle of space travel, but the […]

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01/12/2021

Power Magazine: Space-Based Solar Power May Be Closer Than You Think

Sonal Patel, the Senior Associate Editor of POWER Magazine in the USA interviewed David Homfray and Martin Soltau, for this excellent article on Space Based Solar Power and the UK study. POWER is a respected brand covering news and technology for the power generation industry globally. Read the full article here >>

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