The Approach
PERCCOM is an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) in Pervasive Computing and Communications for Sustainable Development. Transnational education provision through PERCCOM effects knowledge transfer through sharing of technology amongst 13 universities from 10 different countries, six industrial partners and two NGOs. EMJMD GENIAL is PERCCOM’s successor and its main focus is also Green IT and through this project, approximately 100 IT professionals or engineers are expected to be trained from 2020-2025.
- Data centre energy efficiency
Our research on data centre energy efficiency is supported by the project entitled ‘Measuring Data Centre Efficiency’ funded through JISC Greening ICT initiative (2010). This research encompasses deployment of varying levels of granularity for the measurement of energy use for individual and aggregated devices in a physical data centre. It also provides real experimental data for the calculation of Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), trends and comparative analysis of the data centre energy efficiency.
- Grid integrated PV-battery energy system
Grid integrated PV-battery energy-related research conducted at LBU encompasses the modelling of combined PV arrays and multiple storage solutions (such as battery and hydrogen reservoir with electrolyser-fuel cells) and hybrid energy storage system (such as battery, thermal storage heaters, and water cylinder). Modelling includes the grid feature where energy drawn from the grid is stored in the energy storage devices when demand, price and carbon intensity of grid electricity is low.