Renewable Energy
Why choose 2kt for Renewable Energy?
2kt has a strong focus on renewable energy and sustainability and our academic staff are active in supporting commerce and industry in meeting the challenges of recent energy price hikes, government initiatives and legislature.
We have a proven track record in delivering commercial services and our knowledge extends to building energy performance, infrastructure research, systems integration, regulations advanced energy materials, microgeneration technologies and biofuels.
We can offer your business:
- Technical expertise and industry experience
- Access to specialist equipment and technical services
- Independent advice which is not linked to specific developers or equipment
- A broad range of expertise and a holistic approach to problem solving
- CPD and bespoke training services
2kt’s Renewable Energy Portfolio
- Air leakage testing
- Biofuels development and processing
- Energy and environmental auditing/assessment
- Energy materials characterisation
- Energy monitoring and modelling of systems
- Fuel cells and hydrogen
- Hydro-electric generation
- Industrial scale renewable systems design and installation - including wind, hydro and solar
- Industry up-skilling and cross-skilling
- Micro-renewable systems design and installation - including solar PV and wind turbines
- Project management
- Risk management
- Site energy assessments
- Thermal performance assessment of buildings and materials
Facilities
We have a range of versatile facilities for testing the energy performance of domestic, commercial and industrial buildings and can perform:
- Computer simulation of building performance
- Remote monitoring of building energy use
- In-situ testing of building fabric performance, ventilation and air tightness
- Indoor air quality and noise assessment
2kt also operates a range of building pressurisation and air leakage testing equipment capable of undertaking testing in compliance with CIBSE TM23 and EN13829:2001. This can be done in conjunction with smoke testing, tracer gas decay techniques and Infra Red Thermography.