# Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology

**Source**: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crest/
**Parent**: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/centres-excellence/

[About](https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crest/about/)

For over 25 years CREST has overseen the research and development of the most progressive renewable energy technologies.

[### Research

CREST carries out world-class research in renewable energy systems - sustainable energy for present and future generations.](https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crest/research/)

[### Study

CREST continues to pioneer the teaching of renewable energy technologies.](https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crest/study/)

[### Working with us

We use our expertise and knowledge to help realise a wide range of projects and ideas.](https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crest/working-with-us/)

[### Facilities

Comprehensive, state-of-the-art facilities support both our education and our research.](https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crest/working-with-us/facilities/)

[### Staff

Contact details and profiles for all of our team.](https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crest/staff/)

[### Photovoltaic Devices Measurement Laboratory

A wide range of facilities to measure and characterise cells, modules and pyranometers](https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crest/working-with-us/lab/)

## Latest news

[### National high resolution cathodoluminescence facility opens at Loughborough University

A new national facility for high resolution cathodoluminescence has been officially opened by Professor Nick Jennings, the University’s Vice-Chancellor.

13 January 2026](https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crest/news/2026/high-resolution-cathodoluminescence-facility/)

[### Solar photovoltaics event a success

The CREST-led Sustainable Solar Energy Systems Network Plus, which offers structured support to Early Career Researchers in the field of solar photovoltaics, recently organised this year’s Advances in Photovoltaics meeting, held at the Institute of Physics in London on 12th November 2025.

18 November 2025](https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crest/news/2025/solar-photovoltaics-event-success/)

[### Battery-Electrolyser Team wins innovation award from Hydrogen Scotland

CREST’s Battery-Electrolyser Team has won the Stewart Dow Innovation Award 2025 from Hydrogen Scotland at their dinner and award ceremony in Glasgow on Tuesday 28 October. The award was collected by Dr John Barton on behalf of Jonathan Wilson, Dani Strickland and the rest of the team.

4 November 2025](https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crest/news/2025/battery-electrolyser-team-wins-innovation-award/)