28 October 2019 • Helsinki, Finland • Original Sokos Hotel Presidentti The European Technology & Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling (RHC ETIP) organises the event 100% RHC for a Sustainable Future, the opportunity for RHC experts to learn, network and present their RHC innovative projects. Why joining? The RHC ETIP gathers industry representatives,...
Via EUREC Members, WIP Renewable Energies EU PVSEC is pleased to announce that the conference programme can now be found online (here). The registration is open for this year’s conference and exhibition taking place at Marseille Chanot Conference & Exhibition Centre from September 9-13. REGISTER HERE The European Joint Commission Research Centre coordinates the conference...
Via EUREC members, FOSS Research Centre for Sustainable Energy FOSS Research Centre for Sustainable Energy proudly announces that the SmartPV Project has won the LIFE Citizen’s Prize (#LIFEAwards19). We are grateful for your votes & support! The project The Project “Smart net metering for promotion and cost-efficient grid-integration of PV technology in Cyprus” with the...
Via EUREC Members, ZSW Green Electricity for More Affordable Hydrogen Research platform with optimized electrolyzer up and running at commercial power-to-gas plant Hydrogen sourced from green electricity can increase the share of renewables in the transportation sector and reduce particulate matter and nitrogen oxide emissions. There is a catch, though – green gas production is...
Via EUREC Members, EURAC Research Each photovoltaic system is composed of numerous components “” photovoltaic modules, cabling, inverters, etc “” keeping them monitored and making available data coming from various stakeholders easily accessible in a centralized platform would optimize the operation and maintenance of PV systems, whether they are residential or large systems. It is...
Via EUREC Members, DLR At the Hannover Messe, DLR is presenting innovative technologies and concepts for implementing the Energy Transition. This year, DLR’s stand will focus on the topic of digitalisation as a key factor for the successful transformation of the energy system. At the DLR stand, visitors can experience, among other things, what the...
Via EUREC Members, AEE INTEC Arrowhead Tools is Europe’s largest project for solutions in automation and digitization for the industry. The project has a budget of EUR 91 million and more than 80 partners, among them some of Europe’s largest companies such as Volvo, Bosch, Philips and Infineon. It is funded within the ECSEL Joint...
Via EUREC Members, CENER CENER is developing technology for future urban biorefineries, to move towards a circular bioeconomy CENER is involved in 4 specific initiatives, in order to develop the most adequate management and valorization routes of different urban biowastes. Sarriguren (Navarre-Spain) on March 4th 2019.- In the Biomass Department of CENER (National Renewable Energy...
Brussels, 13 May 2019 PV IMPACT PRESS RELEASE Kick-off meeting of the PV IMPACT project (Brussels, 17 April 2019) gathers experts from eleven industry and research organizations to impulse the actual execution of the SET Plan Implementation Plan for Photovoltaics. Project partners from eleven industry and research organizations met in Brussels on 17 April 2019...
SHIP2FAIR is looking for interested plants or industrial sites, from the Agro-food sector or other sectors, to develop one of the 10 feasibility studies with focus on one of the tools that the project is creating: the Replication Tool. The Replication Tool is a software to support the concept design of SHIP projects (projects integrating...
EUREC and EUREC members, CIRCE, will have a stand dedicated to PV WIND Maps, the interactive online library, specialised in PV and WIND projects during EUSEW 2019. PV WIND Maps is a free access website designed to locate and learn about European & international projects on Wind and PV technologies. With PV WIND Maps you...
The ETIP PV conference “Readying for the TW era“ will take place on 28&29 May 2019 at the BIP (Rue Royale 2-4) in Brussels, Belgium. PV reached a new milestone of the end of 2018 with half a TW of installed capacity globally and more is expected to come in the coming years, with a...
On the 7th & 8th May 2019, EUREC College of Members #56 was held in Cyprus. On 7th of May, the College of Members started with the visit at the premises of FOSS Research Centre for Sustainable Energy-University of Cyprus. Simultaneously, the Steering Committee meeting of the EUREC Master in Renewable Energy took place. The...
The European Technology & Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling (RHC ETIP) organises the event 100% RHC for a Sustainable Future, the opportunity for RHC experts to learn, network and present their RHC innovative projects. Why joining? The RHC ETIP gathers industry representatives, researchers and policy makers to network and exchange their...
HYDROPOWER-EUROPE, a multipartner initiative that aims to guide funding authorities and particularly the European Commission to prioritise support for the hydropower sector, is looking for stakeholders from the whole hydropower value chain. Hydropower-Europe is seeking participants from a range of stakeholder groups – industry, government/regulatory oversight organizations, academia, education, civil society organizations, media, etc. to...
28-29 May 2019 Brussels, Belgium The ETIP PV conference “Readying for the TW ERA” will take place on 28&29 May 2019 at the BIP (Rue Royale 2-4) in Brussels, Belgium. PV reached a new milestone of the end of 2018 with half a TW of installed capacity globally and more is expected to come in...
A vote today, 27/03/2019, by the Parliament has excluded fossil fuels from the EUR 320 billion European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Cohesion Funds for 2021-2027, signalling a clear commitment to the EU’s obligations to reduce greenhouse gases under the Paris Agreement and its net-zero emissions Long Term Strategy. Press release & visuals by the...
Horizon Europe, the EU’s flagship research and innovation programme for the period 2021-2027, introduces a few novelties. Among them are Strategic Planning and Missions. Strategic Planning refers to a process whereby the areas of research and innovation that are eligible to be funded are fine-tuned and defined, possibly in a funding plan that spans several...
EU PVSEC 2019, 09 -13 September 2019, Marseille, France EU PVSEC Exhibition:Where the Latest in Science & Technology Meets Industry The advancements of solar scientists continue to be impressive, and so are the constant product innovations of solar companies – that’s why next to the EU PVSEC conference events we’ve been traditionally having an industry...
The 5TOI_EWAS innovation week was held in Tunis on 11-14th February 2019. It was an exceptional networking platform for exchanging ideas, define policies, finding new solutions and business opportunities in the interrelated fields of food, water and energy – NEXUS. The third Innovation week in Tunisia took place in the framework of the Horizon2020 funded...
Via EUREC Members, ZSW Growth continues to pick up steam / German manufacturers in the top 10 The number of electric cars worldwide had risen to 5.6 million in early 2019, up 64 percent from previous year. This is the second year running to see such accelerated growth. China and the USA, the biggest markets,...
Via EUREC Members, Wuppertal Institute GJETC 2.0 in Tokyo during 5th Council Meeting on 14th November 2018. Source: GJETC After two years of successful work which culminated in an extensive 800 pages study programme and a Final Report published in April 2018, the German-Japanese Energy Transition Council (GJETC) continue its work in a second phase...
Via EUREC Members, IMEC Imec and EnergyVille recently presented a new simulation framework that can accurately calculate the energy yield of bifacial PV systems (also capturing reflected light from the ground). Compared to existing approaches, it not only computes the energy yield of the individual cells and modules based on local and varying meteorological conditions,...
Via EUREC Members, CNRS-ICUBE Organic photovoltaics (OPV) can open up new application areas for photovoltaics: OPV modules can be flexible, semitransparent and made in different colors, they are lightweight and can be shaped on purpose to be integrated into various systems. However, despite these unique features and the promising power conversion efficiency of OPV devices,...
Via EUREC Members, AEE INTEC Under the direction of AEE INTEC, Austrian large-scale research project “THERMAFLEX”, demonstrating zero-CO2 in district heating systems, has been started. In 2016, Austria’s space heating requirement amounted to approx. 87 TWh/a (total energy requirement: 311 TWh/a). A quarter of this demand is provided by heat supply based on district-heating (provided by...
Wednesday, 20th February 2019 EUREC has obtained the list of Mission Areas and possible European Partnerships that Ministers considered at yesterday’s Competitiveness Council. They were: Mission Areas: Adaptation to Climate Change, and Societal Transformation Cancer Healthy oceans, seas and incoming waters Climate-neutral and smart cities Soil health Areas for European Partnerships under Art 185 or...
On the 15th March, EUREC co-organises a workshop with the European Climate Foundation and the Directorate General of Energy, in Brussels. Linking the European Union’s innovation policy (Horizon Europe, ETS Innovation Fund) to deep decarbonisation (the EU’s emerging strategy for a zero-carbon economy by 2050). During this workshop, several analytical papers on the synergies between innovations...
A new three-year long EU funded project has recently started, it aims to gather input from the European hydropower community in order to agree upon common Research and Innovation priorities for the sector in Europe. According to the International Hydropower Association (IHA), Hydropower remains the single largest source of renewable electricity across Europe, generating an...
This is SMARTSPEND Project first press release. Read more about the project main goal, results and the partners behind this 3-year-project.*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Subscribe Launch of key project to increase the efficiency of European funding for clean energy SMARTSPEND project aims for more and better designed public support for energy technology Research & Innovation Website Contact...
