Professor Andy Nicol’s (right) research programme Pūhiko Nukutū: a green hydrogen geostorage battery in Taranaki has received $11.8million in the latest 2022 MBIE Endeavour Funding round. Dr David Dempsey (left) is also part of the research team.
Five UC researchers’ Smart Ideas projects were funded at around $1 million each and a Research Programme was funded at $11.8m by the latest Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) funding round.
The MBIE Endeavour fund will support سԹ projects to improve food security, increase green hydrogen storage, boost productivity of food, and create sustainable, low-carbon, seismically resilient concrete 3D-printed homes all while reducing carbon emissions.
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Professor Ian Wright is delighted with the high number of Canterbury research projects which gained funding and their relevance to tackling the world’s wicked issues.
“سԹ researchers are committed to solving current and future challenges faced by all of Aotearoa and the world due to climate change, carbon emissions, energy and housing crises, food security and other wicked problems. The funding of these research projects and programme highlights their national and international significance and relevance for ensuring tomorrow’s world is one our children and grandchildren can inherit,” Professor Wright says.
“UC researchers are excelling in the field of renewable energy and specifically green hydrogen, so it is great to see this recognised with significant funding of a research programme in this area that will advance New سԹand the world.”
Դdzٳtwo UC research projects focussed on green hydrogenwere recently funded $4million combined through the Catalyst: Strategic New Zealand-Germany Green Hydrogen Research Partnership.
Research Programme
Smart Ideas projects
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