The project ComMit-20 aimed to establish the long and short-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic situation regarding energy consumption, changes in usage patterns, and higher indoor environmental quality requirements in the built environment. The objective…
The Reenvisioning the potential of energy communities (RECOMMIT) project concluded at the end of 2022. The goal of this project was to develop an understanding of the needs to enable effective community participation and develop novel…
The actual work on hybrid and electric vehicles (HEV) at the International Energy Agency (IEA) is done through a variety of different Tasks that are focused on specific topics. Each topic is addressed in a…
FEM-IoT is a consortium of 12 Catalan research centers to boost the emerging sector of the Internet of Things. The main objective is to become a laboratory platform for the research and innovation of smart city infrastructure…
IREC has offered several research and technical staff positions thanks to the INVESTIGO program. This program from AGAUR (Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca) aims to give grants for the recruitment of young…
Three IREC researchers receive Ramon y Cajal fellowships (RyC 2021), whose contract begins on January 2023: The purpose of these fellowships is to promote the incorporation of research personnel, from Spain or abroad, with an…
Tech4Win began in January 2019 and proposed a highly innovative transparent photovoltaic (PV) window concept that is based on the integration of an ultraviolet (UV) selective coating, working as a UV filter and as a…
Pedro Vidal, researcher from the Solar Energy Materials and Systems group, and Viktoria Golovanova, researcher from the Energy Storage, Harvesting and Catalysis group, get 2 of the 6 Pioner 2022 awards, given to the best…
The Comunitat.coop project has concluded in November 2022, after fifteen months of development. The main goal of Comunitat.coop was to develop a digital platform of integrated services, with the requested functionalities and appropriate intervention scales,…
The Energy for Society Network (XRE4S), coordinated by IREC, has launched a press release on Monday the 19th of December 2022, highlighting that four of the technologies of their members are constituted as a spin-off…