International Activities - Europe EUREC - European Union Renewable Energy Centers Agency

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Website: www.eurec.be




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The EUREC Agency was established as a European Economic Interest Grouping in 1991 to strengthen and rationalize the European RD&D efforts on renewable energy technologies. As an independent association, it groups about 40 prominent RD&D groups from all EU States - except Luxembourg. The research fields covered include solar buildings, wind, photovoltaics, biomass, small hydro, solar thermal power stations, ocean energy, solar chemistry and solar materials, hybrid systems, developing countries and integration of renewable energy in the energy infrastructure.

EUREC fosters contacts and cooperation between its members and European industry as well as selected EU political groupings active in the field of renewable energy utilization.

EUREC provides targeted information to the European Commission, the Directorate-Generals and the Parliament and groupings of parliamentarians with a special responsibility for energy affairs.

EUREC assists members

• in fast and detailed information transfer from the EC
• in the formation of strong groups for EC RD&D projects
• in the definition of innovative EC proposals.

EUREC prepares consensus position papers with road maps and strategies for RD&D on different renewable energy technologies, as a consensus among its members, taking into account the views of industry and utilities. The position papers are updated at regular intervals.

EUREC manages and coordinates projects which are of general interest for renewable energy technologies, such as the creation, regular updating and distribution of information data bases and preparatory research for international guidelines and standards in liaison with ISO/IEC and CEN/CENELEC. Such projects are handled by the EUREC Bureau which is made up of representatives of the different technologies.

EUREC assumes a responsibility for disseminating know-how of renewable energy technologies to both the general public and specific target groups. In particular, it aims at stimulating measures to professionalise education and training at the university and medium technical level, such as high level courses at European Conferences or the creation of a European Master's Degree in Renewable Energy Technologies.

EUREC provides a platform for common initiatives with international organizations and will pay special attention to the transfer of knowledge and technologies to the Developing World.

Publications

These include a 268 page hard cover book 'The Future for Renewable Energy - 2", published in March 2002. (ISBN 1 902916 31 X), published by James and James (UK). In this second edition leading researchers and specialists in renewable energy have once again been commissioned by EUREC to completely reassess the position of renewable energy technologies in the context of global energy supply, and to recommend a development path for each technology branch. As a result the book presents the results of extensive research, incorporating the findings of specialists from over 40 renewable energy research institutes, representing over 1000 scientists. Individual chapters cover biomass, photovoltaics, small hydro, solar buildings, solar thermal power stations, wind energy, and other areas such as ocean energy and solar chemistry.

You can purchase a copy of this publication from www.cplpress.com/contents/C18.htm

Contacts

Contact

• European Renewable Energy Center Agency Eurec Agency EEIG / BELGIUM
• Gregory ARROWSMITH / European Renewable Energy Center Agency BELGIUM