The renewable energy industry is one of the fastest growing sectors in Europe thanks to two factors: the supportive political and legal frameworks and the region’s prominent investment in renewable energy research and development.
With the new emphasis on rapid implementation of renewable energy technologies to achieve the 2020 targets, the EUREC Agency decided to revisit the research priorities in terms of how research can and should contribute to the achievement of those targets. Whilst the research itself provides the means to achieve the European ambitions of sustainable growth and competitiveness, it should also be recognised that it provides an important educational tool for the training of the highly skilled workforce who will design and implement the new energy systems of the future.
This webinar will present a general overview of the policy and research activities which in EUREC’s view are needed to underpin the growth of the renewable energy industry by 2020, with a special focus on the critical role which European postgraduate higher education is set to play. Founded in 1991, EUREC Agency’s mission is to improve the quality and scope of European research and development in renewable energy technologies (RET). Its 43 members are Europe’s leading organisations in renewable energy scientific research, covering all its aspects.
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Challenges and Opportunities of Renewable Energy Research 2020 and beyond
1. Challenges and opportunities for Europe’s scientific research in renewable energy technologies by 2020 and beyond EUREC Agency Webinar Leonardo Energy 6 November 2009 Simone Landolina Greg Arrowsmith
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4. EREC European Renewable Energy Council How the renewables interest is represented in Brussels EUREC Agency EU Renewable Energy Research Centers Agency Renewables Research Renewables Policy EUBIA & AEBIOM Biomass ESHA & EU-OEA Small Hydro & Ocean ESTIF Solar Thermal EPIA PV EGEC Geo- thermal EWEA Wind Renewable Energy Industry
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Hinweis der Redaktion
EUREC stands for European Renewable…. Legal Status: European Economic Interest Grouping Registered in Belgium since 1991
The renewable energy house – rue d’Arlon 63-67. 15 Organisations have set the headquarters in the REH, 10 of them are members of EREC. We work under one roof, use synergies, and try to adopt common positions and speak to the outside world with one voice, representing the entire renewable energy sector. L’union fait la force –
The renewable energy house – rue d’Arlon 63-67. 15 Organisations have set the headquarters in the REH, 10 of them are members of EREC. We work under one roof, use synergies, and try to adopt common positions and speak to the outside world with one voice, representing the entire renewable energy sector. L’union fait la force –
We work to accomplish this mission by focusing our activities in four directions. Title of today’s webinar: Challenges and opportunities for Europe’s scientific research in renewable energy technologies by 2020 and beyond What I would like to do today in the next 40 minutes or so, is to explore together with the participants of this Leonardo webinar, what is EUREC’s view of these challenges and which are the concrete solutions / actions we carry on to foster RE research in Europe. European scientific research faces a number of challenges which are not only of technological nature: policy; financing; educational.
We work to accomplish this mission by focusing our activities in four directions. Title of today’s webinar: Challenges and opportunities for Europe’s scientific research in renewable energy technologies by 2020 and beyond What I would like to do today in the next 40 minutes or so, is to explore together with the participants of this Leonardo webinar, what is EUREC’s view of these challenges and which are the concrete solutions / actions we carry on to foster RE research in Europe. European scientific research faces a number of challenges which are not only of technological nature: policy; financing; educational.
EUREC is first of all THE reference network for all major European performers of RE scientific research. Multi-directional flow of information : Members EU Institutions EU inst. Members Members members
So, the aim of our College of Members meetings, is not only to bring our members up to date on who is doing what and what’s going on in a given RE research area. One of the objectives of this meeting is to set the strategic and research priorities for the topic. INDEPENDENT publication: although we gladly accepted some inputs from industry, it only reflects the view of the research community we represent. You can download for free a copy of the publication from EUREC website OR you can pass by our offices and take a paper copy.
Long term scientific research shall not be neglected in view or reaching the 2020 targets for RE deployment.
Over 40 authors + some external contributors. Special thanks to our 4 main authors: Nicola Pearsall from Northumbria University at Newcastle (Newcastle Photovoltaics Applications Centre), Simon Watson (CRES - Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology) at Loughborough University Hans Muller-Steinhagen from DLR Kornel Kovacs from the University of Szeged (Hungary) 20-20-20 = 20% of energy from RES; 20% of energy efficiency ; 20% Co2 reductions
1.370 TWh of electricity from RES, out of a total gross electricity generation 4.078 TWh to 3.391 TWh These are the RET considered in the publication:…..
Here research priorities are not listed by energy source but rather by type of fuel.
We work to accomplish this mission by focusing our activities in four directions. Title of today’s webinar: Challenges and opportunities for Europe’s scientific research in renewable energy technologies by 2020 and beyond European scientific research faces a number of challenges which are not only of technological nature: policy; financing; educational.
Examples of projects where EUREC played a leading role in cooperation with industry: ProRETT – Promotion of Renewable Energy Technology Transfer. The project has developed and tested an innovative methodology for better commercial exploitation of existing scientific research results. Highlights: - 10 spin-off companies created; 2 license deals underway 4.3 million € of private investments in RE research results related to ProRETT (ie 5 times the EC financing!) www.prorett.eu KIS-PIMS – Knowledge Intensive Services for the Planning, Installation, Maintenance and Scraping (PIMS) of renewable energy production systems. KIS-PIMS is an initiative to accelerate cost driven innovation in PIMS services associated to the production of renewable energy. KIS-PIMS awards a voucher (from 5.000 to 50.000 EUR) innovative Service companies, with a focus on SMEs. At present, KIS-PIMS vouchers are only available in Austria , France and Finland . The beneficiaries can use these vouchers to improve their “innovation-based”: either strengthening their business model or from a technological point of view. http://www.europe-innova.org/kis-ip/kis-pims European Technology Platforms Our Policy Officer Greg Arrowsmith is also a member of the Smart Grids Forum, an advisory body to the European Technology Platform on Smart Grids
RHC-ETP as the most innovative initiative of 2009 in the ETPs.
We work to accomplish this mission by focusing our activities in four directions. Title of today’s webinar: Challenges and opportunities for Europe’s scientific research in renewable energy technologies by 2020 and beyond
We work to accomplish this mission by focusing our activities in four directions. Title of today’s webinar: European scientific research faces a number of challenges which are not only of technological nature: policy; financing; educational.
More efforts are essential in education! This includes not only specific studies for renewable energy as a course topic in itself, but more focus on renewable energy topics being included in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics and other traditional technical studies.
Here we don’t have beautiful charts as for wind and PV because the bioenergy industry is huge and fragmented ( if we look at the entire supply chain, at the feedstock production very difficult to quantify the total employment in EU. References: WWF (2009): “Low Carbon Jobs for Europe: Current opportunities and future prospects” EREC (2008) European Renewable Energy Council, “Renewable Energy Technology Roadmap 20% by 2020”
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Organisation of ad-hoc events: Oldenburg meeting on “Initiatives from industry, research and academia to respond to the challenge of human resources in the RE sector” Brussels meeting “Brainstorming session for including additional universities” Participation at an event during the Sustainable Energy Week 2009 in Brussels on “Skills for a renewable energy workforce”