The world stands on the threshold of an energy revolution. Fossil fuel contributions to climate change, the need for greater security of energy supply and the approaching end of the oil era are driving the search for new energy sources. Over the next 50 years the world will undergo a set of energy supply transitions whose success will be measured in terms of their economic, environmental and social sustainability.

The Porter Alliance’s mission is focussed on the science and engineering that will create a sustainable, plant based liquid fuels industry and is committed to the timely delivery of these technologies to the market. It is our assessment that new routes to lignocellulosic biofuels have the greatest potential for positive and sustainable economic and environmental impacts and our programme focuses on this.

The Porter Alliance brings together more than 100 scientists, engineers, policy makers and mathematicians at Imperial College London, the John Innes Centre, Rothamsted Research, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University (IBERS), Southampton University, Cambridge University and the University of York. We have growing links with the Bioenergy Research Group at Aston University. Their skills encompass all the science and engineering that is required to develop new processes that take biomass feedstock and process and refine it into liquid fuel, chemicals, materials and energy in a sustainable manner. 

Contacts and Sharepoint Space

Contact details for Administration, Business Development and Management of the Porter Alliance are located on the About Us page. Contacts details for Research can be found on the Research Activities page. 

The link to the Sharepoint space for members is:

https://sharepoint.ic.ac.uk/porter/default.aspx

You can find more information and apply for membership here.