News
What the Society is doing, and what is happening in sustainable energy technologies.
-
Global
How do solvent-free tandem solar cells boost clean energy scalability?
Perovskite silicon tandem solar cells can achieve high efficiency, but producing them at scale still comes with a major challenge: the use of toxic solvents.
-
Society
The 2026 WSSET Awards
At the SET2026 gala dinner in Kuala Lumpur the Society presented its first Award of Scientific Excellence, to Professor Jie Ji, alongside this year's Innovation Awards.
-
Global
Air-conditioning saves thousands of lives yearly, but at what cost?
Air conditioning protects people from deadly heat, yet it also increases carbon emissions.
-
Global
Are mining roads pushing Alaska’s Arctic past its environmental limit?
Alaska’s Arctic is already under severe climate pressure, with thawing permafrost and declining caribou and salmon populations disrupting Indigenous communities.
-
Society
"This needs to be a global effort" | Professor Matthew Davies | The WSSET Podcast Ep. 2
In this episode, we’re joined by Professor Matthew Davies from Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe for a more personal conversation about life in academia, research, and what
-
Society
Membership expands, and moves to an annual subscription
As the Society grows and what it offers members expands, membership is now held as an annual subscription.
-
Society
The Society introduces individual member accounts
Every member now has an account on the Society's new website, where they can check their membership, correct their own details, download their certificate and choose what the Society sends them.
-
Society
The Society opens its Special Interest Groups
We are bringing our members together to collaborate on research. Join a SIG, each with a chair and a team of likeminded researchers.
-
Society
What is on the new site
Every newsletter the Society has published since 2009, the conferences with their programmes and photographs, the proceedings and the affiliated journals.
-
Global
Can steel clamps increase concrete strength?
Strengthening an ageing concrete column normally means pouring a heavy jacket around it or wrapping it in costly fibre composites.
-
Global
How much can a small patch of corrosion weaken a subsea CO₂ pipeline?
Carbon capture depends on pipelines that carry CO₂ across the seabed to offshore storage sites, where years of immersion slowly thin their steel walls.
-
Global
Why did Antarctica freeze millions of years earlier than the Arctic?
Antarctica has been buried in ice for roughly 34 million years, while the Arctic did not develop major ice sheets until around 5 million years ago, a gap of some 29 million years
