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Chris Lovett, from Ashbourne, Derbyshire, has won the 2025 Nick Bird Award at Harper Adams University for his dissertation on the use of ex-electric vehicle batteries…
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Former Harper student wins Nick Bird Award for work on battery storage system
0Chris Lovett, from Ashbourne, Derbyshire, has won the 2025 Nick Bird Award at Harper Adams University for his dissertation on the use of ex-electric vehicle batteries for battery storage systems on farms. The Award, which comes with a £500 prize, is for an outstanding piece of written work that involves recorded observations of an agricultural process, data analysis and interpretation with demonstrable added value for farmers. Chris explained that his project aimed to determine whether ex-electric vehicle batteries could provide a financially viable battery energy storage system (BESS) to farms, further offsetting the environmental impact of manufacturing these batteries. This…