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,…
Biogas is obtained from the treatment of livestock droppings, organic fractions of municipal waste, sewage sludge and agricultural waste. The objective of the RuralGas project is to valorize this waste to obtain renewable gas, capturing…
After 3 years of hard work promoting energy efficiency in public buildings in the Mediterranean area, the Efficient Buildings project comes to its end, although the impact is expected to expand beyond this closing. The…
Today photovoltaics (PV) has become one of the most cost-effective forms of electricity production globally and in some regions is already the most competitive unsubsidised form of electricity. Despite positive cost and growing developments, European…
On November 23rd and 24th, SUNRISE project partners met at IREC premises for the Technical Meeting after 18 months since the beginning of the project. This was the first meeting in-person in fact, all other…
IREC researchers have earned seven “Strategic Projects Aimed at Ecological Transition and Digital Transition” 2021 (TED 2021), which are intended to promote R&D&i activities to increase the competitiveness and international leadership of Spanish science and…
Energy flexibility is one of the key technologies to face climate transition, enabling the swift transition to a low-carbon energy system that displaces conventional fossil fuels with renewable energy sources. Energy flexibility in buildings may…
RESPONDENT is a Horizon Europe funded project that stands for “Renewable Energy Sources Power FOrecasting and SyNchronisation for Smart GriD NEtworks MaNagemenT“. Renewable energy sources (RES) play a major role to the EU’s aspiration to…
The Thermal Energy and Building Performance group at IREC participates in the EU Horizon 2020 project syn.ikia, with other 12 partners across Europe. The mission of syn.ikia is to increase the share of sustainable neighborhoods…
Stanford University publishes the World’s Top 2% Scientists ranking, publishes the Highly Cited Researchers list. The researchers from the Catalonia Institut for Energy Research (IREC) appear on these prestigious lists. Stanford University has recently published…