The EU-funded AQUASOL project unites partners across Europe to integrate renewable energy into desalination systems and drive sustainable water treatment solutions. Desalination of seawater and brackish water is one of the essential solutions to the…
Maritime transport accounts for 13.5% of transport emissions in the EU, prompting ambitious regulatory measures such as the FuelEU Maritime initiative and the International Maritime Organization’s decarbonization goals. These frameworks target significant reductions in greenhouse…
IREC and Anell, the electricity distribution subsidiary of the Estabanell Group, based in Granollers (Barcelona), have worked together on a power grid monitoring system that is a pioneer in Europe. This system improves the detection…
The European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Young Researcher Awards (YRA) are intended to honour and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high level of excellence and distinction. E-MRS seeks…
In this first year, the SENS-AR project, led by the Solar Energy Materials and Systems Department at IREC, has reached a new milestone with the successful completion of the prototyping phase of its multisensor platform…
The CONCORD project which stands for “Multiport power converter for cost-effective, resilient, secure, and environment-friendly Electrical-based Systems” led by a post-doctoral researcher, Levon Gevorkov has concluded with significant advancements in multiport power converter technologies, critical…
During the past four years, the HYBRIS project (Hybrid Battery energy stoRage system for advanced grid and beHInd-de-meter Segments) has focused on the development of a Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) by integrating lithium titanate…
The SENSOCEAN project has successfully concluded this April after 2 years of continuous work. The project, developed by EOLOS and IREC, aimed to investigate and develop a meteoceanic buoy with advanced sensory and digital technologies…
The Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has recently announced the selected projects for new business models in the energy transition and access to the regulatory sandbox for promoting research…
The European MARBEL project, coordinated by the Eurecat Technology Center with the participation of the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), has developed a new battery concept for electric vehicles, focusing on large-scale modular and…