As ERA reaches the end of its £60 million capital build programme, which has focused on the development of 23 test and demonstration facilities, it has been through a process of examining how to apply its academic capability and facilities to a series of major research, development and demonstration challenges which face the UK as it accelerates the delivery of low-carbon solutions towards 2050.

WMG is proud to be playing its part in the government’s Driving the Electric Revolution challenge.

Fourteen winning projects, announced by the Business Secretary in March, will share a total of £6.7 million. These projects will help boost supply chain efficiencies in industries affected by electrification, from aerospace to automotive, to energy and rail.

Last month we were delighted to welcome Kate Ashworth from Energy Capital to deliver a talk: A place-based approach to power, heat and transport.

In honour of International Women's Day the Energy GRP would like to celebrate the work of our female members of staff, working at all levels and in many disciplines across all areas of Energy research and support here at the University of Warwick.

The investment will help to design, test and manufacture electric machines in some of the UK’s most polluting industries.

• new cutting-edge network of industrial centres to help UK lead the charge to net zero by 2050
• 4 centres of excellence will help electrify planes, ships and cars
• comes as Prime Minister chairs new Cabinet committee meeting focusing on climate change