The government commission has approved the collaboration agreement between the Barcelona City Council and IREC, this agreement provide a grant of € 300.000 for the development of PRIMA project for energy transition, promoted by Generalitat…
Innovation Day Energia showed, one more year, that efficient energy management consolidates as a sector with high innovation potential in our country. This event was held on October the 8th, 2020, and is co-organized between…
The EU HarveStore project is creating wireless energy systems called “μ-harvestorers” for powering IoT nodes. In addition to being small in scale and powerful, these fingertip-size devices are also environmentally friendly. HarveStore aims to use disruptive concepts from…
Marc Torrell, researcher from the Nanoionics and Fuel Cells group at IREC, and Miguel Laguna from ICMA, are Guest Editors of the Special Issue on “Performance and degradation mechanisms of electrode materials for solid oxide…
The Knowledge Industry Grants are aimed at funding innovation projects to boost the technology transfer and cooperation between academia and the industrial sector. Two types of grants exist: Type A: “Llavor Grants” for (pre-prototype) innovative projects…
IREC is the leader of the R+D+i network Energy for Society (XRE4S), a transversal and interdisciplinary network with the aim to impulse technology transfer in the energy sector, while promoting the energy transition at the…
The Generalitat de Catalunya, via ICAEN, is promoting the climate change law number 16/2017 and the proposed law on Energy Transition in Catalonia. The National Pact for the Energy Transition of Catalonia now also aims…
A recent MIT study (link) shows that electrical vehicle batteries could have a useful and profitable second life as backup storage for grid-scale solar photovoltaic installations. These batteries are clearly interesting for storing energy for…
ICAEN has published a set of IREC studies in the framework of PROENCAT 2050, the Catalan energy prospective towards the horizon 2050 and the energy transition in Catalonia. IREC has analysed and reported the state-of-the-art…
Hydrogen technologies are here to stay. In the context of the current climate crisis, the cities of the future must be free of emissions, and hydrogen will play a key role. A new methodology, developed…