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Commit-20 project co-organizes a dissemination session devoted to pandemic and extreme events

October 28, 2022

New MSCA-COFUND doctoral programme to train 26 young researchers

October 25, 2022

Towards a commercially competitive thin-film battery via Pulsed Laser Deposition

October 21, 2022

IREC earns 4 Knowledge Industry Grants (2021 call)

October 19, 2022

Esportcat and the IREC strengthen the alliance for the environmental and energy improvement of sports equipment

October 18, 2022

Positive Energy Buildings (PEB). Beyond the nZEB

October 14, 2022

On the development of anode-free all-solid-state batteries

October 11, 2022

Catalysts based on 2D carbides -MXenes for H₂ production processes and CO₂ reduction

October 05, 2022

New video series to showcase research from IREC groups

October 04, 2022

Educational workshops organized by IREC in the Researchers’ Night 2022

October 03, 2022

Development of new solutions for floating offshore wind farms

September 29, 2022

Multiport converters to integrate renewables and storage in distributed networks

September 22, 2022

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September 13, 2022

Energy Poverty

TV News

Mariana Jimenez, researcher from the Energy Systems Analytics group at IREC, talks about the high dependence on basic energy supplies to cover the basic needs of households, she proposes a more diversified energy matrix and confirms that extreme weather events are increasing due to climate change. And how to solve energy poverty by combining renewable energies with energy storage or sharing surplus energy.

March 13, 2022

Nada puede salvar los combustibles fósiles

Interview article

En referencia a la sustitución del carbón por gas, el director del IREC recuerda que este es también un combustible fósil. “Aunque es más limpio que el carbón o el petróleo, continúa siendo un emisor de CO2, así que utilizándolo no se está haciendo nada para evitar la crisis climática”

July 12, 2021

Cascading impacts of sea level rise

Interview Article

The rise in sea level -as a consequence of the polar melt- is among the main dangers related to the climatic emergency that threatens cities on the coast, therefore, predictive meteorological models can help avoid the “waterfall effect ”.