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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.
Petten/Eindhoven - ECN and Holst Centre, an open-innovation initiative by TNO (The Netherlands) and IMEC (Belgium), signed an agreement to offer a joint research program on Roll-to-Roll organic photovoltaics (OPV) to the industry. The aim of the program is to transfer lab-scale processes to...[more]
Human perturbation of the nitrogen cycle is a major societal threat with impacts on a wide range of global change issues from climate change and air quality to water quality and biodiversity. Our food production and energy use leads to many diffuse nitrogen leakages which serve as the start of a...[more]
Petten - The May 16th issue of the scientific periodical Science devotes considerable attention to nitrogen-related problems. In one of the articles, ECN researcher Jan Willem Erisman and others set out the growing nitrogen-related problems and describe ways to limit them in order to prevent the...[more]
Petten, the Netherlands and Houston, Texas – Energy Research Center of the Netherlands and CRI Catalyst Company sign License Agreement . Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and CRI Catalyst Company LP (CRI) have concluded a License Agreement for a novel catalyst technology developed by...[more]
The Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) is delighted with the agreement in principle that the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) recently reached concerning the reduction of air pollution caused by shipping. This is a spectacular step towards a better environment.[more]
In the upcoming years Amsterdam and the ICT sector will work together to drastically reduce the energy consumption of data hotels. This decision was stimulated by the research report ‘Energy saving at data hotels’ published by the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN). ECN’s deputy...[more]
Petten - Researchers at the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) have developed a simple method to improve the solar cell efficiency for a new generation of crystalline silicon industrial solar cells. [more]
The Poul la Cour prize was awarded to Jos Beurskens on April 3rd, 2008 during the closing session of the European Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition 2008 (EWEC). The prize was presented to him by the EU Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potočnik. Awarded annually by the EWEA, this...[more]
Petten - Within the scope of the Dutch Sunovation II project, the consortium TTA/Eurotron, Solland Solar, TNO and ECN have developed pilot-line equipment and corresponding low-stress interconnection technology to produce solar modules with extremely thin rear-contact solar cells. This pilot line...[more]
Petten - The EU biofuels target for 2020 of 10% can be met with conventional feedstocks and current technology without major agricultural land use changes and environmental consequences. Yet, only advanced, second-generation biofuels are expected to provide a substantial contribution to reducing...[more]
Petten/Rome - The Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) has been selected by TECHNIP KTI SpA to deliver a hydrogen purification module for the FISR-project. The project represents an opportunity to demonstrate the use of high-temperature membranes for hydrogen production for the...[more]
Petten - a new type of membrane, developed by researchers of ECN, the University of Twente and the University of Amsterdam, is highly resistant to exposure to high temperatures. The ‘molecular sieve’ is capable of ‘dehydrating’ solvents and biofuels, which makes it a promising energy-efficient...[more]
Petten - Within the framework of CrystalClear - a large European project on the development of low-cost, highly efficient silicon solar modules - a manufacturing process has been developed to allow modules to be made using very thin solar cells. [more]
Petten - The climate plan that was presented by the European Commission (EC) on January 23rd 2008 shows common sense. On the whole the Commission has made the right choices in her strive for substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions and creating a more sustainable energy supply. This was...[more]
The outcome of the 13th climate summit in Bali (COP13) made headline news all over the world. Although initially the conference proceeded according to plan, it required a dramatic final to reach consensus on an ‘Action Plan’ towards a new climate treaty. The deadline for a successor to Kyoto has...[more]
Petten – On Thursday December 13th Ruud Lubbers officially activated the SEWGS test installation of the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN). Research performed with this installation should lead to the availability of CO2 capture technology for commercial applications in electricity...[more]
ECN organizes a symposium entitled ‘Air Monitoring Instrumentation’ from December 10th until December 12th in association with Applikon and Mechatronics. This conference will include presentations and workshops about instruments for the composition of particulate matter and several gases such as...[more]
Petten – Ministers Van der Hoeven (EZ) en Cramer (VROM) will put the Energy Vision 2050 of ECN/NRG on the innovation agenda for government policy. The ministers announced this to the Dutch Lower House. They concluded that the ECN/NRG Energy Vision provides direction for innovative and energy...[more]
The potential for carbon credits from developing countries is by far not depleted after 2012. It is likely to be sufficient to help industrialised countries meet strict greenhouse gas reduction targets. Depending on important political decisions however, the potential could be smaller than...[more]
Petten – The Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) has developed a tool which makes it possible to estimate the maintenance costs of an –offshore- wind farm in the development stage very accurately. Although more suppliers offer software and services in this range, the ECN-software is...[more]
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