Oh boy, another research grant! This one is for another "energy and sustainability" project, a.k.a green energy and environmentalism.
These projects exist to do 2 things:
1. Create jobs for people who have no way to make a living in the Private Sector, and:
2. Furnish the government with more data which will translate into more restrictive laws to govern our lives.
Whether any meaningful jobs are even created by this malarkey is immaterial. Your government has decided, against your wishes, that spending millions on this is necessary (and a payback to the Environmental Lobby which donates to campaign war chests), and you are expected to foot the bill no matter how much it costs, and regardless of whether anything useful is accomplished.