Euwi - European Water Initiative

AN ENERGY RESEARCH BASED POLICY SUPPORT ORGANISATION

The Institute for Energy (IE) is one of the 7 scientific Institutes of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. The IE is based both in Petten, the Netherlands, and Ispra, Italy, and has a multidisciplinary team of around 300 academic, technical, and support staff. The research areas listed below involve partners from member states and beyond.

Typical Activities of the Institute include:

• Renewable energies including solar, photovoltaics and biomass,
• Sustainable & safe nuclear energy for current & future reactor systems
• Energy techno/economic assessment
• Bioenergy including biofuels,
• Hydrogen and fuel cells,
• Clean fossil fuel
• Energy efficiency in: buildings, industry, transport and end-use,
• Security of energy supply

JRC addresses a wide range of energy issues :

http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/index.cfm?id=2270