Phyllis has been the source of knowledge on biomass for more than a decade
The Climate Conference in Copenhagen has resulted in an unprecedented number of visitors to ECN’s Phyllis database. Phyllis provides information on all sorts of biomass and biomass fuels. It has been in its lifetime the third most popular ECN webpage (in terms of unique visitors per month). It is a primary source of information on biomass, worldwide. Read more
'Nano-paint is an excellent insulator’
The European resolution to be 20 per cent more energy efficient in ten years time than in 1990, may seem easy to achieve. If nobody leaves a light on unnecessarily, everyone buys a more energy-efficient boiler and always switches off all the stand-by buttons, the energy targets would be considerably closer. “Reality is less manageable than theory”, Julia Backhaus of ECN Policy Studies discovered. She is researching behavioural change among European energy users. Read more
Indispensable bridge between laboratory and real world
“Capturing CO2 in power stations is a good thing but does cost extra money and extra energy. In order to make CO2 removal feasible, affordable technology should be made available and the energy loss should be restricted as much as possible. Our calculation models help bring that a little closer”, says Jan Wilco Dijkstra, researcher of the ECN unit Hydrogen & Clean Fossil Fuels. Read more
14Credits determine ‘green’ CO2 in flue gases
The reduction of CO2 emissions was high on the agenda of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in December. Energy-intensive companies are already working to reduce CO2 emissions. They participate in CO2 emission trading and consequently have to report their emissions. For these companies, ECN has developed and patented a method that accurately determines the proportion of ‘green CO2’ in flue gases. Read more
ECN: Europe needs more gas storage
Over the next twenty years the need for gas storage in Europe will increase. “That has everything to do with seasonal flexibility”, says Jeroen de Joode of ECN Policy Studies. “Although Russian and Norwegian pipelines bring gas to northwest Europe they will never be able to provide the same seasonal flexibility currently available with our own production fields such as Slochteren.” Read more
Applikon in the picture with ECN innovation MARGA
ECN introduced a new instrument called MARGA to accurately measure the air pollutants ammonia, nitric acid, sulphur dioxide and particulates from hour to hour. There was great international interest for the innovation. ECN licensed the Schiedam company Applikon Analytical to develop the instrument for production and for the market. Such development would usually take some ten years. How far is Applikon now? Read more
Copenhagen requires reorientation of international approach to climate change
The fifteenth Conference of Parties in Copenhagen, which aimed at a binding international climate treaty, failed to produce a credible result. Despite claims to the contrary made by world leaders and negotiators, this is the only possible conclusion. ECN's Heleen de Coninck claims we should shift our attention to climate technology. Read more
Stable dye-sensitised solar cell offers perspective
At present, dye-sensitive solar cells are not yet efficient enough and cheap enough to be implemented on a wide scale. “But step by step we are improving them. Within ten years they will be good enough to supply electricity that will be able to complete with mains electricity”, ECN researcher Jan Kroon says. Read more
MexNext unveils the secrets of the wind
“In terms of aerodynamics wind turbines are far more complicated than aeroplanes”, says Gerard Schepers of ECN Wind Energy. “So complicated in fact, designers are largely still very much in the dark and sometimes have to rely on intuition and experience. Read more
ECN Solar Energy twice number one
The ECN unit Solar Energy has won the European Innovation Prize 2009. This announcement was made 9 December 2009, at an EARTO meeting in Brussels. With REC from Norway the unit also raised the efficiency on solar panels to a breathtaking 17%. With this achievement the world record is back to ECN. Read more
Recent publications
Results of the research done by Energy research Centre of the Netherlands are published in reports or articles for scientific magazines. Furthermore, presentations at international conferences and colloquia are fully published. Last month the next publications became available. Read more
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ECN, the leading Dutch energy research institute, is at the cutting edge of European efforts in the development of new technologies that meet tomorrow?s energy demand. ECN conducts research and development over a large range of energy technologies, carefully selected by impact over the next decades. Read more
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