Areas of Research

Energy Engineering at UCC has close ties to MaREI, the Research Ireland Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine research and innovation, coordinated by the Sustainability Institute. MaREI combines the expertise of a wide range of research groups and industry partners, with the shared mission of solving the main scientific, technical and socio-economic challenges across the renewable energy, climate and marine sectors. MaREI has over 200 researchers working across 6 academic institutions collaborating with over 45 industry partners. The MaREI Centre is based at the Beaufort Building in Ringaskiddy, which is also home to the Lir National Ocean Test Facility. Lir is Ireland’s only infrastructure for small to medium scale laboratory testing of ocean and marine systems.

Energy Engineering research at UCC encompasses many aspects of energy generation, transmission, distribution, end use and policy. UCC has active research groups in the fields of:

• Offshore Renewable Energy
• Energy Policy and Modelling Group
• Intelligent Efficiency Research Group 
• Marine Renewable Energy Technologies
• Materials & Structures
• Bioenergy Research
• Wind Energy Research Group
• Photonics for Energy Efficient Systems Research 
• Photovoltaics