TransHEner is an AEI-MICINN funded project that stands for “Leveraging of Horizon Europe to boost Spanish energy transition and associated economic growth“. The project starts in January 2021 and will run for 2 years. The…
RESOL project as part of the coordinated ValPEC project has finished. The goal of RESOL was to develop electrochemical systems useful for deploying solar refineries. The overall project involved 3 partners in Spain: IREC, INAM…
The Government of Catalonia will be part of the national interest project “Hub del Coneixement del Barcelonès Nord”. The project will be located in the Tres Xemeneies building and will be promoted jointly with the…
IREC renews the TECNIO certification for the period 2020-2023. This certification is created by the Government of Catalonia, through ACCIÓ, and it identifies differential applied technology providers and facilitators. The certification: Supports the most qualified agents involved in…
ITER is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world today. It is based in southern France, where 35 nations are collaborating to build the world’s largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that…
The European Research Night is a public event dedicated to the dissemination of science that is held every year in more than 300 cities in 30 European countries at the same time. Its aim is…
Naturgy Foundation publishes a new study where experts from the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) demand the implementation of a necessary regulation to scale the technology, and to reduce its costs and attract investment.…
Researchers of the IREC Energy Storage, Harvesting and Catalysis group address the relevant breakthroughs in the development and optimization of photocatalytic materials of interest in photoelectrochemical or photosynthetic cells for the production of fuels, such…
In the framework of the Solar-Win project, the first functional Solar-Win photovoltaic windows have been successfully implemented and are currently being tested in Seville (Spain). The consortium is formed by 4 partners, including IREC (the…
The 3DPASSION project addresses a new generation of high-performance power generation and energy storage devices fabricated by novel ceramic 3D processing techniques. 3DPASSION combines emerging 3D manufacturing technologies with advanced materials to fabricate high power…