Technological advances and social awareness towards more sustainable mobility and new features of the small vehicles have allowed proliferation of new mobility devices, such as drones, e-scooters, etc. A global market share of $25 billion…
The Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) has completed the installation of a new optical system for the industrial inspection of the roll-to-roll manufacturing processes of flexible photovoltaic devices at the Austrian company Sunplugged, an…
Genius is a newly granted project that stands for “Empowering Clean-Energy Transition of Energy Intensive Industry Through Advanced and Innovative Digital-Tools”. It is funded under the “líneas estratégicas” call and held its kick-off meeting on…
On Wednesday, October 20, 2021, the group of Thermal Energy and Building Performance participated in the first inter cluster event organized by the Cluster of Efficient Energy of Catalonia (CEEC), the Fire Safety Cluster (CLUSIC)…
The StoRIES project brings together a consortium of beneficiaries like ESFRI facilities, technology institutes, universities and industrial partners to jointly improve the economic performance of storage technologies. Members of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA)…
LOCALISED is a H2020 funded project that stands for “Localised decarbonisation pathways for citizens, local administrations and businesses to inform for mitigation and adaptation action“. The kick-off meeting is held in Potsdam (Germany) from 9-10th…
Our experts at IREC consider that the risk of a global blackout in Europe is very low, as the electricity grid system is robust and has contingency plans. José Luis Domínguez, head of the Power…
The main goal of the “Som Comunitat Energètica” project was to introduce a web-service platform, able to discover the potential energy communities around a specific end consumer, and following current regulations. Thus, the platform, freely…
The SOLBAT (Towards High Energy Density All Solid State Lithium Batteries) project took place between 2019 and 2021. It was carried out by Zahilia Caban Huertas at Energy Storage and Harvesting group at IREC in…
The MasterPV project has addressed the development of innovative transparent back contacts in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) solar cells for cost efficient semi-transparent modules. CIGS semi-transparent modules can be achieved with transparency levels up to 30%-40% by…