Developing the next generation of renewable energy technologies: an overview of low-TRL EU-funded research projects

Laura María Pérez Caballero; Fernanda Neira D'Angelo; Roman Tschentscher; Axel Gottschalk; Ahmed M Salem; Daniel Carbonell; Mihaela Dudita-Kauffeld; Arnaud Bruch; Eleonora Alamaro; Luca Pasquini; Paola Ceroni; Anastasia Grozdanova; Stefania Privitera; Bart Vermang; Philip Schulz; Davide Mencarelli; Luca Pierantoni; Michele Midrio; William Leithead; Ignacio Gurruchaga; Robert Haberl; Jasper Vermaut; Michael Kauffeld

doi:10.12688/openreseurope.15276.1

Developing the next generation of renewable energy technologies: an overview of low-TRL EU-funded research projects

Open Res Eur. 2023 Dec 28:3:8. doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.15276.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Laura María Pérez Caballero¹, Fernanda Neira D'Angelo², Roman Tschentscher³, Axel Gottschalk⁴, Ahmed M Salem^{5

6}, Daniel Carbonell⁷, Mihaela Dudita-Kauffeld⁷, Arnaud Bruch⁸, Eleonora Alamaro⁹, Luca Pasquini¹⁰, Paola Ceroni¹¹, Anastasia Grozdanova⁹, Stefania Privitera¹², Bart Vermang^{13

14

15}, Philip Schulz¹⁶, Davide Mencarelli¹⁷, Luca Pierantoni¹⁷, Michele Midrio¹⁸, William Leithead¹⁹, Ignacio Gurruchaga⁷, Robert Haberl⁷, Jasper Vermaut²⁰, Michael Kauffeld²¹

Affiliations

¹ Innovation Area, R2M Solution Spain S.L., Madrid, 28032, Spain.
² Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5612 AZ, The Netherlands.
³ Process Chemistry and Functional Materials, Sintef Industry, Oslo, 0314, Norway.
⁴ Institute of Process Engineering, Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences, Bremerhaven, 27568, Germany.
⁵ Department of Energy, Systems, Territory and Constructions Engineering (D.E.S.T.E.C.), University of Pisa, Pisa, 56122, Italy.
⁶ Mechanical Power Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tanta, Tanta, 31521, Egypt.
⁷ SPF Institute for Solar Technology, OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil, 8640, Switzerland.
⁸ Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission, France, Grenoble, 38054, France.
⁹ AMIRES, Prague, 162 00, Czech Republic.
¹⁰ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, 40126, Italy.
¹¹ Department of Chemistry "Giacomo Ciamician", University of Bologna, Bologna, 40126, Italy.
¹² Institute for Microelectronic and Microsystems (IMM), National Research Council, Italy, Catania, 95121, Italy.
¹³ imo-imomec, Hasselt University, Hasselt, 3500, Belgium.
¹⁴ imo-imomec, Imec, Genk, 3600, Belgium.
¹⁵ imo-imec, EnergyVille, Genk, 3600, Belgium.
¹⁶ Institut Photovoltaïque d'Île de France (IPVF), CNRS, Palaiseau, 91120, France.
¹⁷ Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, 60121, Italy.
¹⁸ University of Udine, Udine, 33100, Italy.
¹⁹ Wind Energy and Control Centre (WECC), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G11XQ, UK.
²⁰ Federation of European Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Associations, Brussels, 1050, Belgium.
²¹ Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Environmental Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 298R+86, Germany.

Abstract

A cluster of eleven research and innovation projects, funded under the same call of the EU's H2020 programme, are developing breakthrough and game-changing renewable energy technologies that will form the backbone of the energy system by 2030 and 2050 are, at present, at an early stage of development. These projects have joined forces at a collaborative workshop, entitled ' Low-TRL Renewable Energy Technologies', at the 10th Sustainable Places Conference (SP2022), to share their insights, present their projects' progress and achievements to date, and expose their approach for exploitation and market uptake of their solutions.

Keywords: innovative technologies; net-zero greenhouse gas emissions; renewable energy; research and development.

Grants and funding

The work presented in this publication has been developed in the context of the following European projects: ● ComBioTES, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 864496. ● CONDOR, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101006839. ● EBIO, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101006612. ● FLEXI-GREEN FUELS, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101007130. ● GreEnergy, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101006963. ● HIGFLY, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101006618. ● PERCISTAND, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 850937. ● REGEN-BY-2, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 851541. ● TELEGRAM, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101006941. ● TRI-HP, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 814888. ● X-ROTOR, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101007135.