If you ever wondered how the millions of pounds being invested in energy research by E.ON UK every year, is helping us to change energy, then listen here...

Key areas of E.ON UK's low carbon research are explained in our podcasts, from power stations of the future, to initiatives to reduce energy use in the home.

2016 house

The government has set targets for all new-build housing to be zero carbon by 2016. But where does that leave the massive reservoir of existing homes? E.ON UK is about to embark on an innovative new project to showcase how we can raise the country’s ageing, energy inefficient existing housing stock up to the rigorous 2016 standards.

2016 house   (9.76 MB Windows Media player) Duration 10 Mins 41

Cleaner fossil

When fossil fuels are burnt, the green house gas, carbon dioxide, is produced. So, if electricity generating companies could capture the millions of tons of carbon dioxide produced when coal, gas or oil is burned in power plants, this would have a major impact on climate change in future.  

E.ON UK is exploring the three main carbon capture options that look like the industry front-runners.   They are amine scrubbing, oxyfuel and gasification.  

Click the link below to join Louise Dalziel outside one of E.ON UK’s coal fired power stations to find out how we’re tackling the problem.

Cleaner fossil   (12 MB Windows Media Player) Duration 12 Mins 49
 

Supercritical plant

To meet the country's energy requirements in an increasingly unstable world, while facing up to the challenges presented by climate change, E.ON UK is looking to a new generation of power stations.    

Click on the link below to join Louise Dalziel and Stuart Simpson,   E.ON Engineering's   head of Boiler Engineering, discussing how the performance of fossil fuel burning power stations will be improved in future.

Supercritical plant   (7.70 MB Windows Media   player) Duration 8 Mins 25

 

24 hour home of the future

On the surface of things the house of the future may not look dramatically different from today’s home. That is until you look closely at how the electrical goods will be interacting with one another, with us and ultimately with the electricity generators. Louise Dalziel meets the electrical engineers and mathematical modellers at E.ON UK to review a 24 hour day in the home of the future.

24 Hour House (10 MB Windows Media player) Duration 11 Mins 17

Carbon capture and storage

It's estimated that approximately 30% of the world's emissions of carbon dioxide come from fossil fuel power stations. So it’s no surprise that ways of capturing and storing the CO2 produced through burning coal, oil and gas could have a major positive impact on the health of the planet.   E.ON UK is actively involved in research that will capture, transport and then store large quantities of carbon dioxide.  

Click on the link below to discover how greenhouse gases could in the future be sequestered under the North Sea……

Carbon capture and storage (8.02 MB Windows Media Player) Duration 8 Mins 47