Research Priorities - Energy
  • Article
  • Aug 22 2017

UK researchers participating in a DOE funded multi-institutional center (BETCy Energy Frontier Research Center) have discovered a groundbreaking process that allows them to harness energy from chemical reactions that previously dismissed as unusable.

  • Podcast
  • Jan 24 2017

Weisenberger Mill, UK's CAER, and Shaker Landing Hydro Associates have teamed up to pilot test the first variable-speed generator in U.S. hydroelectric plant.

  • Video
  • Jan 23 2017

Kinloch, Weisenberger Mill, and UK CAER have partnered together to adapt variable speed hydroelectric generators...

  • Video
  • Dec 8 2016

Susan Odom is developing organic compounds for next-generation batteries.

  • Video
  • Jul 13 2016

CAER researchers are using bourbon stillage to create energy-dense batteries.

  • Podcast
  • May 18 2016

Susan Odom talks about training students, her next-generation battery research, and the connection between chemistry and cooking.

  • Video
  • Mar 17 2015

This one hour documentary explores issues Kentucky faces in energy and economics.

  • Video
  • Aug 28 2014

The "Powering the Kentucky Bioeconomy for a Sustainable Future" project has been awarded $20 million from NSF.

  • Video
  • Oct 3 2013

UK College of Design students created plans for 100 acres of algae photobioreactors at East Bend Station.

  • Video
  • Oct 3 2013

With federal emissions limits looming, CAER is proving an algae-based system can capture and sequester CO2.