This is the website for the research group of Dr Edward Barbour, Associate Professor of Energy Systems and Storage at the Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage at the University of Birmingham, also part of the Birmingham Energy Institute. Dr Barbour's research group works in several energy-related areas. These include the development of novel thermomechanical energy storage technologies like Adiabatic Compressed Air Energy Storage (ACAES), developing methods for widespread heat decarbonisation (such as heat pumps and thermal energy storage) and whole systems energy modelling for efficiently planning the transition to a highly decarbonised energy system in the UK.

Dr Barbour is also a member of the the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham.

If you are interested in more about our research, then please visit our research page