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20/07/2022

SEI welcomes UK Government £3 Million investment in Space-Based Solar Power technologies

The Space Energy Initiative strongly welcomes the UK Government’s announcement today of £3 million of grant funding for Space-Based Solar Power projects. This funding is seen as recognition of the potential of this revolutionary new technology, and will kick-start its development as a solution to the UK’s future energy needs. The announcement builds on the […]

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 […]

Article

25/05/2022

Via Satellite: Solar Power from Space – A Solution to Net Zero?

The world’s energy consumption is increasing and will continue to grow. According to a report by the University of Oxford, current global energy consumption is more than 160 billion megawatt hours per year, of which solar energy today contributes only 0.58 billion megawatt hours. Despite increases investment in renewable energy solutions, more than 80 percent […]

Article

11/05/2022

The Conversation: A solar power station in space? Here’s how it would work – and the benefits it could bring

The UK government is reportedly considering a £16 billion proposal to build a solar power station in space. Yes, you read that right. Space-based solar power is one of the technologies to feature in the government’s Net Zero Innovation Portfolio. It has been identified as a potential solution, alongside others, to enable the UK to […]

Article

11/05/2022

Space.com: A solar power plant in space? The UK wants to build one by 2035.

The United Kingdom is getting serious about beaming solar power from space and thinks it could have a demonstrator in orbit by 2035. Over 50 British technology organizations, including heavyweights such as aerospace manufacturer Airbus, Cambridge University and satellite maker SSTL, have joined the U.K. Space Energy Initiative, which launched last year in a quest […]

News

10/04/2022

ABC Future Tense: Space-Based Solar – Energy Above the Clouds

Antony Funnell talks with the SEI’s Martin Soltau, and Caltech Professor Ali Hajimiri. Scientists are busy testing ways to build a giant solar farm in space. If you can launch solar panels into orbit, so the theory goes, our future world could be powered by an uninterrupted stream of solar radiation. Also, what to do […]

Article

27/03/2022

The Telegraph: Whitehall explores Solar Power Stations in Space

Kwasi Kwarteng has ordered civil servants to start research work on orbiting space solar farms in a step towards an unconventional net-zero initiative. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is developing “key technologies associated with space-based solar power”, the Business Secretary said. Advocates of solar space farms believe they could provide renewable, round-the-clock […]

News

27/03/2022

talkRADIO ‘The Unexplained with Howard Hughes’

talkRADIO ‘The Unexplained with Howard Hughes’ Sam Adlen, Chief Strategy Officer at the Satellite Applications Catapult and Co-Chair of the Space Energy Initiative appeared on ‘The Unexplained with Howard Hughes’ to talk about the technology behind Space-Based Solar Power, the engineering challenges in building a space-based power station, and the future impact on our energy […]

Article

21/03/2022

Express: UK to launch first power station in SPACE – limitless green energy to slash foreign ties

By the mid-2040s, it should be able to deliver about 30GW of continuous clean power straight from space pace. Martin Soltau, Space Business Partner, Frazer-Nash Consultancy, Co-Chair Space Energy Initiative, told Express.co.uk that this could “provide 30 percent of the UK’s (greatly increased) electricity demand“. As well as helping to slash the UK’s dependence on […]

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