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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.

25.01.2010

Advocacy for carbon capture could arouse public distrust

Letter to the Editor of Nature [more]


20.01.2010

HIFLEX for new low-cost scalable Organic Photovoltaics applications

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]


12.01.2010

Fertilising the air

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]


05.01.2010

ECN appoints Paul Kwakkenbos as new manager Corporate Communications

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]


23.12.2009

Copenhagen requires reorientation of international approach to climate change

If emission reductions don’t work, try to agree on climate technology instead [more]


15.12.2009

ECN and REC repossess world record in solar energy

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]


10.12.2009

ECN unit Solar Energy wins innovation prize

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]


30.11.2009

Unit Solar Energy innovative in Europe

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]


18.11.2009

Honorary doctorate awarded to Jos Beurskens of ECN

Jos Beurskens has received an honorary doctorate for his exceptional contributions to the advancement of wind energy research.[more]


27.10.2009

ECN hosts Roundtable on readiness for carbon dioxide capture and storage

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]


09.10.2009

Prestigious prize for HybSi® membranes

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]


02.10.2009

Heleen de Coninck advocates technology in climate agreements

An interview in NRC (Dutch Journal) with Heleen de Coninck by Paul Luttikhuis on Wednesday September 23rd[more]


08.09.2009

ECN and Indonesia collaborate on energy policy formulation and capacity development

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]


07.09.2009

Technology: the key to a Copenhagen agreement?

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]


03.09.2009

ECN takes leading role together with Dutch Industry in Offshore Wind Farm Innovation

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]


08.07.2009

New method may help allocate carbon emissions responsibility among nations

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]


04.06.2009

Yingli Green Energy, Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands and Amtech Systems announce research collaboration to develop next generation high efficiency solar cells

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]


17.04.2009

ECN achieves world-record efficiency for innovative solar module

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]


06.02.2009

PowerMatcher technology moves smart electricity grids forward

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]


15.01.2009

Record efficiency in conversion of heat to sound

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]


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