Ceres Power awarded 2023 MacRobert Award
Ceres Power, the company behind ground-breaking solid oxide fuel cell technology, has been awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering’s 2023 MacRobert Award.
The Academy’s Royal Fellow, HRH The Princess Royal, presented the winning team behind the Ceres SteelCell with the MacRobert Award gold medal and a £50,000 prize at the Royal Academy of Engineering Awards Dinner in London on 13 July.
Winners of the MacRobert Award are acknowledged for engineering ingenuity, commercial success and tangible social benefit. According to RAEng, Ceres’ fuel cell technology promises to make a major contribution to global decarbonisation at scale and pace. The company also produces electrolysers for green hydrogen and opened a 240m2 hydrogen fuel cell and electrolysis test facility in Nuneaton, Warwickshire on July 10, 2023.
RAEng said the judges were impressed with the solid oxide cell based on common low-cost materials, which is combined with an innovative deposition technique and a highly differentiated stack technology. One cell can light a room but the 250MW of capacity set to come on stream in 2024 could power half a million homes.
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