Rolls-Royce Power Systems is taking the next step towards a climate-neutral future. By 2030, the Rolls-Royce business unit is to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 35% compared to its 2019 level through the use of new net zero and cero carbon technologies.

Rolls-Royce has announced a $17.4 million investment at its mtu Aiken manufacturing facility in Graniteville, S.C. for the addition of a new Remanufacturing and Overhaul Regional Center.

Rolls-Royce is investing in Berlin-based start-up Kowry Energy GmbH, a provider of sustainable and decentralized energy systems. Kowry supports the sustainable expansion of energy infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa by combining renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic and battery storage systems.

Rolls-Royce and MAN Energy Solutions have signed an agreement for a strategic partnership that will see MAN's PBST brand distribute state-of-the-art mtu turbochargers.

Another new technology – the hydrogen fuel cell – is currently making in-roads at the Friedrichshafen plant of Rolls-Royce's Power Systems division where a 250 kW demonstrator is in the process of being set up to test future zero-carbon energy systems and present these to customers.

mtu generator sets from Rolls-Royce have been selected to provide critical standby power to Just – Evotec Biologics’ new cGMP biomanufacturing facility in Redmond, Washington (USA).

Rolls-Royce's Power Systems division has ended the 2020 financial year with an underlying operating profit of £178 million (€200 million) (2019: £367 million, €418 million), despite suffering a 17% drop in underlying revenue to £2,745 million (€3,088 million) (2019: £3,184 million, €3,630 million).

Norwegian utility company Arva is to use three Rolls-Royce mtu EnergyPack battery energy storage systems to investigate how a public power grid can be stabilized using electricity stored in batteries.

An mtu EnergyPack from Rolls-Royce is at the center of a field test begin carried out in the German State of Niedersachsen with the aim of supplying power sustainably and as far as possible independently of the public utility grid.

The Rolls-Royce Power Systems Division is expanding the portfolio of its product and solution brand mtu to include uninterruptible power supply systems. From 1st February, the flywheel energy storage power supply systems have been marketed as mtu Kinetic PowerPacks.