ERA has invested in over 20 state-of-the-art facilities across the 9 partners. From state of the art facilities in battery, thermal, solar, hydrogen and much more, ERA is at the cutting edge of new technologies. Our large scale demonstration projects such as the Trent Basin community energy demonstrator in Nottingham, the energy from waste TCR at Tyseley Energy Park in Birmingham and the 'bio-coal plant in Lincolnshire show how we are at the forefront of energy innovation.
Our facilities include the following:
- Advanced biomass processing facility - Aston University
- Advanced insulation, glazing and solar collector laboratory - Loughborough University
- Battery abuse facility - Warwick University
- Battery forensics lab - Warwick University
- Cell and module characterisation lab - Warwick University
- Cell scale up manufacturing facility - Warwick University
- Community energy homes - Trent Basin, Nottingham
- Cryogenic engine test facility - Loughborough University
- Factory in a Box - Manufacturing Technology Centre, Ansty
- Gas compression ann expansion lab - University of Leicester
- Geoenergy test bed - University of Nottingham
- High performance compression and expansion lab - University of Nottingham
- Hot and cold thermal materials lab - University of Birmingham
- Hydrogen lab - University of Nottingham
- Hydrothermal Carbonisation - CPL works, Immingham
- Latent heat energy storage lab - CREST, Loughborough
- Second life battery testing - Warwick University
- Sorption heat pump lab - Warwick University
- Thermo-catalytic Reformer - Tyseley Energy Park, Birmingham
- X-ray spectroscopy - University of Nottingham