Meetings

Future Meetings

The following list of fuel and energy related events organised by the Forum is up-dated periodically.

Energy Storage in Electricity Infrastructure-Developments, Challenges and Innovations

Seminar of the FERF Electricity Generation and Storage Interest Group and FERF 2025 Annual Meeting

Wednesday 2^nd April 2025 at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield.

A provisional programme can be downloaded HERE and registration for the event can be done  HERE.

Dr. Bijal Gudka

General Secretary of the Fuel and Energy Research Forum

Tel : 07724-394988

E-mail : info@tferf.org

Dr. Patrick Mason

Electricity Generation and Storage Interest Group Co-ordinator

Tel : 07799-891883

E-mail : patrickmason@ayup-ltd.co.uk

 Provisional Title, Future Changes and their Potential Impact on the Waste Wood Market. 

Seminar of the FERF Biomass and Waste Interest Group including a Site Visit.

Provisionally Wednesday 11th June 2025 at Esken Renewables, Viking House, Mathieson Road, Widnes, WA8 0NX.

Dr. Bijal Gudka

General Secretary of the Fuel and Energy Research Forum

Tel : 07724-394988

E-mail : info@tferf.org

Dr. Claire Spencer

Biomass and Waste Interest Group Co-ordinator.

Tel : 07710-059012

E-mail : Claire.Spencer@eskenrenewables.com 

The 3^rd FERIA Conference, the European Conference on Fuel and Energy Research and Its Applications, the Successor to the ECCRIA Series of Conferences.

The FERF Biennial 3-day Conference

Wednesday 10^th to Friday 12^th September 2025, the University of Leeds, Leeds. 

Prof. Bill Nimmo

3^rd FERIA Conference Chairman

Tel : 0114-215-7213

E-mail : w.nimmo@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr.  Bijal Gudka

Conference Secretary and Manager

Tel : 07724-394988

E-mail : info@tferf.org

Provisional Title, Young Engineers and Bio-scientists Development Seminar, (Preliminary Announcement of a Planned Event).

Joint Seminar of an FERF Interest Group with the Biochemical Society.

A Date in 2026, Venue to be Announced..

Dr. Andrew Goddard, 

FERF Treasurer.

Tel : 07557-044675

E-mail   : andrew@freelandhorticulture.co.uk

Dr. Fatih Gulec. 

Co-ordinator of the Young Engineers Interest Group.

Tel : 07456-714417.

E-mail : Fatih.Gulec1@nottingham.ac.uk

Past meetings

Some presentations from past Forum meetings are available on the  past meetings page.

Bursaries

Travel and subsistence bursaries are on offer to full-time students wishing to attend national and international fuel and energy related conferences. The bursaries come with no obligations to the recipient other than to provide a short report about his or her impressions of the conference for inclusion in the next edition of the Forum Newsletter. To apply, please send the abstract submitted to the conference and a brief supporting letter from your supervisor to Prof. Bill Nimmo, University of Sheffield (w.nimmo@sheffield.ac.uk). Click here for the  Bursary Application Form