Resources & Publications
Reports, guidelines and other resources produced by UKUAT members and external collaborators.
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V-FAST Publications (2025)
V-FAST is a feasibility study, integrating novel pumped hydro energy storage with vertical farming for scalable, decarbonised business models, with protein-rich crop portfolios, funded by InnovateUK. Here you can find all the publications from that project.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Energy in CEA (April 2023)
A collabortative document, by UKUAT and partners, looking at all the many things you need to think about with regard to energy, when starting a CEA business
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Realising the Environmental Potential of Vertical Farming Systems through Advances in Plant Photobiology (June 2022)
A collabortative document, by UKUAT and partners, looking at all the many things you need to think about with regard to energy, when starting a CEA business.
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Controlled Environment Agriculture Rough Starter Guide (March 2021)
A short document for aspiring indoor farmers to get you from the back of an envelope to a vaguely sensible spreadsheet.
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Homeworking and vacant office space: Can urban agriculture fill the void? (November 2020)
A concept report, written during the Covid-19 pandemic, which dares to imagine how we might fill all the empty offices with controlled environment agriculture.
