#374 Net Zero Champion – Engineering Matters Awards
Engineering Matters

#374 Net Zero Champion – Engineering Matters Awards

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 27, 202623 min

In this Engineering Matters Awards episode, we celebrate the winner of the Net Zero Champion category, which recognises projects, processes, and tools that make a real contribution to reducing carbon emissions. The highest awards were to be given to those entries that demonstrate significant impact or widespread scope, or that overcome a specific challenge. Our gold-level award-winning entrant was Ceres Power for its solid oxide technology, which can generate electricity with high efficiency while avoiding the combustion and associated emissions of conventional power generation. We explore how Ceres’ technology could help meet rapidly growing electricity demand, including fr...

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The world has a relentless need for more computing power. Data centres ran our modern societies even before AI entered the market. From the internet itself to banking transaction systems, logistics, cloud computing. database really.

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Simply building the data centres is only one side of the problem. These enormous new data centres – the AI data centres being built by the hyperscalers, the largest of which require as much electricity as a small town – and are proliferating at an astounding rate.

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electricity consumption is expected to double by 2050, reaching around 59,000 terawatt hours. This is according to McKinsey's 2025 Global Energy Perspective Report, which we have linked to in our show notes. Electricity growth has been sluggish in the Western world for decades, but rapid increases

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