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By means of press releases, news articles, experts views and press lunches ECN informs journalists of the latest news within the field of energy technology. First contact for all media is ECN press officer Florentine de Maar. You will find her by phone +31 224 564 050 en 06-1279 8123 and by mail.
A significant part of European membrane research is focused on the separation technologies required for clean and sustainable energy systems. To speed up current developments, five leading energy research centres have decided to consolidate and strengthen their collaboration in the field of...[more]
As the deadline approaches for member states to submit action plans detailing how they intend to meet renewable energy targets, the renewables directive’s flexible mechanisms are drawing increasing attention. Jaap Jansen , senior researcher of ECN unit Policy Studies, has a close look.[more]
Led by Solland Solar, a Dutch consortium further comprising Sunergy, Levitech and ECN, started a joint three-year project to develop high-efficiency back-contact solar cells based on the so-called emitter wrap through (EWT) cell concept. The ‘Newton’ (New EWT Of the Netherlands) project is funded...[more]
13.04.2010
Today, April 13th, the European Climate Foundation launches the Roadmap 2050 in a meeting with the Commissioners for Energy and for Climate in Brussels. The Roadmap 2050 offers low/zero-carbon pathways, using 40%, 60%, 80% or 100% renewable energy sources. The outcome of this part of the project,...[more]
02.04.2010
The results of the test bring us much closer to commercialisation and are proof of success for our customers.[more]
CO2 capture and storage (CCS) has received a great deal of media attention in recent weeks. ECN-researcher Heleen de Coninck featured in an interview in the Dutch national newspaper “De Volkskrant” on March 20th and on Dutch public television programme Zembla dedicated an item to CCS on March 28th....[more]
Yingli Green Energy Holding, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturers, announced a 300MW manufacturing capacity expansion for n-type monocrystalline silicon cells and modules in China. The new production lines will be designed to produce next generation...[more]
Palladium based membranes supplied by the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) have been used to convert coal into clean energy through hydrogen. CRL Energy from New Zealand carried out a unique experiment to demonstrate the full chain from coal to electricity. The institute used an ECN...[more]
12.03.2010
In the future the electricity flow in the electricity grid will become bidirectional. Solar panels and micro-CHP installations will turn consumers into producers of electricity. This is good for the climate, but it will require a smarter electricity grid; a so-called Smart Grid. ECN has developed...[more]
On march 16, Ayla Uslu, coordinator of the ELOBIO project, will present the key conclusions of the project, commissioned by the EU’s Intelligent Energy Europe programme. [more]
The Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) is leading a prestigious project coordinated by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The goal of this project is to develop a global technology roadmap for the deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in industrial...[more]
Lead by the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), a consortium of seven European partners and one Chinese university collaborate in a new solar cell research project with the name Silicon-Light. This project has started on January 1 of 2010 and will last for three years. The aim of this...[more]
In response to the ongoing discussion about the reliability of the IPCC and the climate reports, a group of 53 leading Dutch scientists in the field of climate research has written an open letter. [more]
Letter to the Editor of Nature [more]
On 1 January 2010 the European research project "HIFLEX" was launched. Over the next three years a European consortium comprising five research institutes and two industrial companies aims to jointly develop a technology for highly flexible Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) modules, which will allow the...[more]
An inaugural lecture by Jan Willem Erisman, ECN’s Biomass, Coal and Environmental Research unit manager when accepting the post of extraordinary professor of Integral Nitrogen Issues at VU University, Amsterdam on Friday 15 January.[more]
ECN, the Dutch research institute for development of renewable energy technologies and strategic energy policies, has appointed Paul Kwakkenbos as Manager Corporate Communication as of 1 January 2010. [more]
If emission reductions don’t work, try to agree on climate technology instead [more]
ECN (Energy research Centre of the Netherlands) has made the world’s first multi-crystalline silicon solar panel with 17.0 percent efficiency. This will be reported in the January 2010 issue of the journal “Progress in Photovoltaics” and represents a 1.5% improvement over the previous 15–year old...[more]
The unit Solar Energy of the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) has won the European Innovation Prize. This announcement was made in Brussels last Wednesday evening, 9 December.[more]
Over the next four years, a consortium of nine parties will be investigating how to...
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>>4th MWT Workshop held in Amsterdam MWT (Metal Wrap Through) technology is ready for the...
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