TECO Clean Energy Research Center | University of South Florida

Motivated to Innovate See what inspires graduating doctoral researchers at CERC
One Goal: Sustainability Researchers take a multidisciplinary approach to clean energy
Local Impact CERC research brings clean air manufacturing to the Tampa Bay area

About Us

The University of South Florida's TECO Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) explores and develops environmentally clean energy systems. Key research projects include solar thermal power, photovoltaics, concentrating solar power, energy storage (phase change materials, thermal storage, batteries, and supercapacitors), photocatalytic detoxification/disinfection technologies, new efficient thermodynamic cycles; solar energy conversion and biomass conversion/biofuels.

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Our Researchers

Inspired by Nature

Francesca Moloney

CERC Researcher, Francesca Moloney, is interested in renewable energy because she knows its the key to protect the beauty that surrounds us.

Patient and Precise

Ibrahim Azad

CERC doctoral researcher, Ibrahim Azad, wants to improve new technologies for future generations.

Generating Hope

Arun Kumar Narasimhan

CERC doctoral researcher wants to help rural areas find grid independence.

Updates

Major Collaboration

Fifteen researchers from the University of New South Wales in Australia, the University of South Florida, and Florida Polytechnic University have been collaborating on how to make Thermochromic (TC) coatings and electrochromic (EC) windows more cost effective yet still able to withstand photo degradation since they are continuously exposed to sunlight.

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CERC News

  1. Goswami named to Tampa mayor's Sustainability team

  2. Visiting Researchers Discuss Multidisciplinary Approach to Engineering

  3. Manufacturing of Goswami's Air Purifier Moving to Lakeland

  4. Photos: ISES And ASHRAE at Florida Solar Congress

  5. CERC Newsletter