Two University of Bristol research groups will be involved in a new Centre for Power Electronics - launched thanks to funding of £18 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) - The Electrical Energy Management Group led by Professor Phil Mellor in the Faculty of Engineering, and the Centre for Device Thermography and Reliabilityled by Professor Martin Kuball in the School of Physics.

The Virtual Centre, combining the country’s best academic talent, will be the largest of its type in the world and will become an international forum for power electronics research. It will focus on sustaining and growing power electronics in the UK by delivering transformative and exploitable new technologies, highly skilled people and by providing long-term strategic value to the UK power electronics industry.

The centre will focus on delivering the underpinning science and engineering behind many low carbon technologies from electric vehicles to renewable energy generation and distribution. Ten universities will initially benefit from research funding for the new centre; Bristol, Cambridge, Greenwich, Imperial, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield, Strathclyde and Warwick.

Find out more at the University of Bristol's news page.