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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]
The ECN unit Solar Energy has every reason to celebrate: the unit has been nominated for a European innovation prize, the winner of which will be announced on December 9.[more]
Jos Beurskens has received an honorary doctorate for his exceptional contributions to the advancement of wind energy research.[more]
On October 22nd, ECN hosted a Roundtable on readiness of new installations for CO2 capture and storage (CCS) in Amsterdam. The Roundtable is part of a project, funded by the Global CCS Institute and led by ICF International in the United States, that aims to develop a definition and best practices...[more]
Dr. Rob Kreiter, working at the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), has received the 2009 Donald R. Ulrich award for “an outstanding contribution to the field of Sol-Gel science and technology”. The prize, for product or product oriented R&D, was awarded for the breakthrough work on...[more]
An interview in NRC (Dutch Journal) with Heleen de Coninck by Paul Luttikhuis on Wednesday September 23rd[more]
Indonesia faces huge challenges related to availability, affordability and sustainability of its energy supply. Addressing these challenges requires good policymaking and a sound knowledge basis in the country, in government, academia and on the technical level. ECN will help address these...[more]
Just months before the climate summit in Copenhagen, which aims to agree on a follow-up to the Kyoto Protocol, ECN and IVM jointly organise a symposium on technology in the international climate regime. The symposium aims to bring together academics, negotiators and politicians with the aim of...[more]
ECN, RWE Offshore Wind, Eneco, TenneT, Ballast Nedam, Van Oord, IHC Merwede, 2-B Energy, XEMC Darwind and TU Delft are pioneering a large scale innovation programme for the development of a large-scale remote offshore wind energy farm (Far and Large Offshore Wind, FLOW). The plan was presented...[more]
PETTEN, Netherlands – Just months before world leaders are scheduled to meet to devise a new international treaty on climate change, a research team led by Princeton University scientists, and including ECN researcher Heleen de Coninck, has developed a new way of dividing responsibility for carbon...[more]
Patented method for improved solar cell efficiency expected to lower solar energy costs BAODING, China; TEMPE, Arizona, PETTEN, The Netherlands – June 4, 2009 – Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) (“Yingli Green Energy”), one of the world’s leading vertically integrated...[more]
Module Conversion Efficiency Independently Verified by TÜV Researchers of the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) have achieved a premium conversion efficiency of 16.4% (aperture area) on a full-size solar module, a new world-record efficiency for photovoltaic modules with...[more]
Researchers of the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) designed the PowerMatcher technology, a new coordination system which can match the demand and supply of electricity more efficiently. This is an important building block for the smart electricity network of the future. For further...[more]
Petten - Researchers from the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) have achieved a record efficiency in the conversion of heat to sound. In a so-called thermo-acoustic engine they have improved on the existing record of 41% to reach 48% of the maximum possible efficiency.[more]
Rome, 7-8 October 2013
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