UCC researchers awarded €3.5 million to turn waste heat into electricity

If the project is successful, it could provide a major breakthrough towards sustainable global energy

Led by UCC Professors Justin Holmes and Dr Subhajit Biswas, the project aims to construct a device that can harvest and store the waste heat produced by power generators, factories and domestic heating systems.

A University College Cork (UCC) led research project has received €3.5m in EU funding to convert waste heat into electricity.

The TRANSLATE project is one of only 58 projects to be funded under the EU’s latest Horizon 2020 EIC Pathfinder Open pilot programme (formally FET-Open) and will draw on the expertise of scientists from Ireland, Germany, Latvia, and Spain.