About the centre

The Centre for Energy Research (CER) was established in September 2010 at United International University, under the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. It exists to strengthen research in renewable and sustainable energy, its efficient use and management, and energy policy.

Since then CER has worked on about 100 projects in renewable energy and the environment: solar-diesel hybrid mini-grids for off-grid islands, feasibility and design of grid-tied solar parks, rooftop PV for industry, and advisory work for the Government of Bangladesh, the World Bank, ADB, the EU, GIZ and others.

CER is one of the institutions that test and certify solar home system equipment against the Bangladesh SHS standard for IDCOL; more than 250 items — LED lamps, charge controllers, DC–DC converters and batteries — have been tested in its lab. With World Bank funding through IDCOL, CER built a solar DC mini-grid laboratory, and with Huawei it runs the Huawei–CER UIU Solar Lab for PV safety testing.