Ceres wins prestigious MacRobert Award for engineering innovation.
Ceres is announce that the Company has been named as the winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award, the UK’s longest-running and most coveted prize for engineering innovation.
The MacRobert Award recognises outstanding innovation, tangible societal benefit and proven commercial success. Past winners include JCB and Jaguar Land Rover; however, Ceres is one of the first climate-related companies to be recognised.
Ceres was announced as one of three finalists last month and was crowned as the winner at last night’s gala awards dinner hosted at The Londoner Hotel in Leicester Square.
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Ceres received the award for its pioneering clean energy technology and specifically for the truly reversible nature of its technology. The Company’s innovative solid oxide technology was hailed by the MacRobert Award judges as a huge breakthrough in the clean energy revolution, alongside the flexibility of Ceres’ fuel cell technology, capable of generating power from a range of different fuels with greater efficiency than alternatives currently in the market.
Professor Sir Richard Friend FREng FRS, Chair of the MacRobert Award judges said
Ceres technology electrolysers show the lowest conversion losses that I have come across, they are spectacularly efficient.
“That is a huge gamechanger for hydrogen generation. It’s very exciting!”
Named in honour of Lady Rachel MacRobert, the annual Award has honoured the engineers behind the UK’s most exciting engineering innovations since 1969.
Caroline Hargrove, Chief Technology Officer at Ceres, said:
Ceres is delighted to have been named as this year’s winner of the MacRobert Award.”
“We are proud to be a leading example of British technology driving progress on tackling climate change across the globe through our international partnerships and licensing model.”
“Our focus on pushing the frontiers of performance in our technology is supporting our global partners to decarbonise at scale and pace. We are galvanised by the goal of a net-zero future and we must keep pushing the boundaries of innovation to achieve this.”
“I would like to thank the Royal Academy of Engineering for its work in shining a light on UK success stories across engineering, as well as the entire Ceres team for their dedication, drive and creativity that has brought us to this point.”
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Ceres Wins Prestigious MacRobert Award for Engineering Innovation, July 15, 2023
