Research
Energy Engineering Research
Areas of Research
MaREI is the marine and renewable energy research, development and innovation Centre supported by Science Foundation Ireland. It 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 marine and renewable energy sectors. MaREI is coordinated by the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) at University College Cork and has over 200 researchers working across 6 academic institutions collaborating with over 45 industry partners
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:
Energy Policy and Modelling Group
Intelligent Efficiency Research Group
Marine Renewable Energy Technologies
Photonics for Energy Efficient Systems Research
Photovoltaics