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About NexSys

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Next Generation Energy Systems (NexSys) is an all-island, multidisciplinary energy research programme.

46 leading academics work in partnership with industry to tackle the challenges of energy decarbonisation, developing evidence-based pathways for a net zero energy system.

NexSys has received €16 million in funding through Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) Strategic Partnership Programme (2022-26), with nine industry co-funding partners and one philanthropic donor. 

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The core of NexSys is multidisciplinary research that will define pathways to a net zero energy system.

The largest programme component is Energy Systems with four critical, connected research strands: Cities and Communities, Transport, Water, and Offshore Wind.

NexSys: The five Hub Strands

  1. Energy Systems: determining how energy systems should evolve to decarbonise.
  2. Water: enabling water utilities to adapt to climate and energy targets.
  3. Transport: transitioning to decarbonised multi-modal transport and renewable energy use in a fair way.
  4. Cities & Communities: enabling communities to become inclusive, resilient and sustainable.
  5. Offshore Wind: reducing lifetime cost and risk of offshore wind technologies.
Our Partners

NexSys is hosted by the UCD Energy Institute in partnership with eight other leading research institutions: ESRI, DCU, Queen’s University Belfast, NUI Galway, Maynooth University, Trinity College Dublin, UCC, and Ulster University.

In NexSys, we seek to collaborate as a multi-disciplinary team to provide technology development and evidence-based insights to the energy transition, through multi-dimensional research and outreach that is focused on equity for energy citizens and practical solutions for industry.