Primarily, our mandate is to initiate, participate, collaborate and enhance PNGUoT staff and student-inclusive research activities in the area of sustainable (renewable and non-renewable) energy research, energy technology development and transfer, for the benefit of the University, our collaborators, the Government and People of PNG, and entire mankind.

SERI is inaugurated secondarily to be the custodian and the ‘library’ of all credible information and comprehensive data-base pertaining to all forms of energy, energy research and energy development technology without exception. This is the portrait of our knowledge-based, student and community-focused blueprint.