Land Based Renewables
Awards, facts and figures
Timing
2009 - 2014
Can I apply for a grant?
No, there will be no more funding events for this programme. Grants for this programme were awarded at a sandpit event held in June 2009.
Budget
This programme has a budget of £2·4m which includes a £350k investment from Shell UK.
Grants awarded
Two consortium grants were funded through the June 2009 sandpit activity:
PI: Stephen Mobbs, University of Leeds
Title: Impact of spatio-climatic variability on environment-hosted land based renewables: microclimates
Summary: This project will use newly emerging techniques of very high resolution nested numerical modelling, taken from the field of numerical weather prediction, to develop a micro-climate model which will be able to make climate predictions locally down to scales of less than 1km.
Investment: £1·1m
PI: Gail Taylor, University of Southampton
Title: Understanding processes determining soil carbon balances under perennial bioenergy crops CARBO-BIOCROP
Summary: The overarching aim of this project is to provide improved understanding of fundamental soil processes resulting in changes of soil carbon stocks and pools as a result of land conversion from arable/grassland to land based renewables.
Investment: £0·95m
And one standard grant:
PI: David Howard, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster
Title: Energyscapes and ecosystem services
Summary: Through a pilot study this project aims to determine how an understanding of ecosystem services and the energyscape could help guide the deployment of land based renewables.
Investment: £350k
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