03.05.2013
Rome, 7-8 October 2013[more]
25.04.2013
Renewable energy is facing a new era, both globally and in the European context. Whilst renewable energy is foreseen to play a key role in all routes towards decarbonisation of our energy economy, fundamental questions of how to bring renewable energy from marginal to mainstream remain to be...[more]
19.04.2013
ECN presents its attractive, innovative technologies and services to the chemical industry at the European Congress of Chemical Engineering and Applied Biotechnology (ECCE9/ECAB2) from 21 until 25 April 2013 in the World Forum The Hague. Read more here.[more]
10.04.2013
The British Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has selected Royal Dahlman as one of three companies to design the most cost-effective, economically viable and efficient waste to energy plant possible. Dahlman design is based on ECN technology.[more]
25.03.2013
A light-weight, flexible organic photovoltaic (OPV) module, which can be used as a standalone charger or integrated with small electronic products such as mobile phones or electronic packaging and labels to give them their own solar energy supply, has been developed by the Hiflex research project....[more]
21.03.2013
ECN developed the code ECNS (Energy-Conserving Navier-Stokes solver), an incompressible code specifically suited for computing unsteady turbulent wakes in offshore wind farms. [more]
21.02.2013
25-27 March 2013 in Hamelin, Germany[more]
07.01.2013
Over the next four years, a consortium of nine parties will be investigating how to reduce the cost price of wind energy by developing an innovative electricity infrastructure on the North Sea. Last month, the Dutch government awarded a 2 million euro grant to this innovative ‘plug socket’ project...[more]
02.01.2013
ECN is front runner in the field of solar energy technology and together with the Dutch businesses Tempress, Levitech, Eurotron and European partners, it promotes state-of-the-art technology and process equipment for high-efficiency solar cells and modules. The recently held CSPV solar energy...[more]
03.12.2012
4th MWT Workshop held in Amsterdam
MWT (Metal Wrap Through) technology is ready for the move from lab to fab. That was the main message from the 4th MWT Workshop, held in Amsterdam on November 20-21.
Over 170 participants from all over the world joined the 2-day workshop held last week in Nemo,...[more]
29.11.2012
As of 2013, about half the carbon emission allowances for the energy companies and industry will be auctioned instead of being freely granted . The Netherlands can also auction a part of these allowances within the European emission cap. Because of the current recession there is a surplus in...[more]
01.11.2012
The additional 2.4 billion budgeted for renewable energy by the new Dutch Rutte II cabinet should be sufficient to realise 16% renewable energy in 2020. This calls for a balanced development of renewable heat, green gas and renewable electricity. The previous cabinet focused on renewable heat as a...[more]
22.10.2012
The Green Growth Best Practice Initiative (GGBP) was launched last week. Designed to help governments strengthen the quality of green growth planning and implementation through analysis and peer-to-peer learning, the initiative is set to drive progressive green policy-making around the globe....[more]
10.10.2012
ECN Technology Due Diligence is a new service by the renowned Netherlands based clean tech institute, tailored to international venture capitalists in the clean tech area.
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04.10.2012
How to achieve materials innovations and cost reductions to move from laboratory to mass production in solar energy as soon as possible? This is the main topic at the international 4th MWT Workshop on 20 and 21 November 2012 in Amsterdam.The world’s major PV industries and leading R&D...[more]
03.10.2012
Delivering power from offshore renewable energy - wind, wave and tidal - in European sea basins will require more integrated and cross-border maritime spatial planning (MSP). This could be achieved through a new directive on MSP. Such a directive could require legislation in Member States without...[more]
24.09.2012
Most solar cells are made from crystalline silicon. Crystalline silicon is expensive because it has to be very pure to make efficient solar cells. Unfortunately, nobody knows exactly how pure and that is why manufacturers play it safe. In other words: they generally use too pure and therefore too...[more]
03.09.2012
A significant increase in the share of renewable energy to 40-55 percent of the European energy mix by 2050 will place great demands on the European electricity infrastructure. Meeting these demands will require considerable investments in new infrastructure to make more efficient use of existing...[more]
24.08.2012
Under the current policy the share of renewable energy in the Netherlands is set to rise from 4% in 2010 to 7-10% in 2020. Although this is a strong increase, it is not enough to achieve the European target of 14% by 2020. Even with the measures proposed by the Rutte government and the agreements...[more]
26.07.2012
ECN closes license agreement with Thermax.[more]
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