Energy as a service to sustainable and inclusive development, avoiding unintended environmental and societal consequences.

Our Vision

The Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy:

  • Sees energy as a service to human development
  • Believes energy provision must be sustainable and accessible to all, avoiding unintended environmental and societal consequences.
  • Takes a holistic, whole-system and life-cycle approach to energy.
  • Tackles global sustainability challenges where the energy vector has a key role to play in supporting sustainable pathways to 2050 and beyond.
  • Works closely with local communities, local authorities, charities and NGOs, national and international professional organisations, governments and industry
  • Acts as a neutral platform for progressive dialogue among key stakeholders, facilitating advancements towards timely implementation of sustainable energy solutions at multiple scales.
  • Serves our University, Glasgow, Scotland, the UK and the world.

Contact Us

contactus-sustainableenergy@glasgow.ac.uk

 

Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy film

Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy film

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Main Building

Our team

Meet the people who make up the Centre

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What we work on

Find out more about the research themes we're working on in the Centre

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News

  • 13 Feb

    UofG launches Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy

    The University of Glasgow is launching a new research centre focused on supporting the global transition to sustainable, low-carbon energy systems. The Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy brings together academics from across the University to find interdisciplinary new ways of delivering the radical reform of energy services and infrastructure required to reach net-zero.
  • 10 Mar

    UofG will lead new £1.3m climate tipping point research project

    Researchers from the University of Glasgow will lead a £1.3m new partnership which aims to develop a network of underwater sensors to monitor the vital signs of the planet’s warming oceans. The new project, led by Professor Martin Lavery of the James Watt School of Engineering, is one of 27 which will share in £81m in funding from ARIA’s Forecasting Tipping Points programme.
  • 26 Feb

    New, greener software model could democratise access to geospatial analysis

    Computer analysis of geospatial data could be made more environmentally-friendly thanks to researchers from UofG who are behind the development of the model, called ‘GeoAggregator’, which harnesses the power of machine learning to reduce the computational demands of analysing complex geospatial data sets.
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Events

GCSE Early Career Researcher Network

 

GCSE Sustainable Energy Zoomposium (Monthly)

Lively interdiciplinary sessions held online monthly for UofG colleagues, who can contact us for information on the next sesssion or on how to become a presenter.  Recordings from previous Zoomposium are publically available here. 

 

GCSE Initial External Workshop, (18 March 2025)

Details to follow but you can register interest now by contacting us.