Featured projects

Wind power

• New typologies for high power generators in off-shore applications.
• Superconductor materials.
• Power converters based on advanced typologies and new power electronics devices. 
• Structural materials, blades.
• Hydrodynamic and structural analysis for off-shore wind turbines.
• Design of mooring systems for floating platforms.
• Modelling of marine parks and their incorporation into the electricity grid.

Solar energy

• Advanced PV plants: Inverter-based distributed architecture. Fault detection and prediction. Monitoring and predictive maintenance. Energy storage.  
• Hybrid and organic cells. New semiconductors using ionic liquids.
• Architectural integration of PV elements.
• High selectivity coatings and storage materials for thermo-electric solar systems.

Biomass

• Organic and waste materials: Formulation and characterization of secondary fuels.
• Biomass transformation processes: Thermal and chemical processes, Syngas treatment, second generation biofuels, by-products.
• Hydrogen production: decomposition of the gas, catalytic processes, enriching, purification, by-products

Wave energy

• MaRINET
  • An EU-funded programme to accelerate the development of offshore renewable energy (wave, tidal, offshore-wind)
  • The biggest marine renewable infrastructure network for emerging energy technologies
  • EU-funded 42 state-of-the art wave, tidal, offshore-wind and environmental testing facilities
  • 28 partners from 12 countries
  • 700 weeks of access for 300 projects and 800 users
  • Open to all: researchers, commercial users, SMEs etc.
  • Industry training to enhance expertise, standarisation of testing techniques and research to improve test capabilities
• Wave energy parks: selection of sites, evaluation of the resource, environmental impact, evaluation of devices, interconnection with grid, moorings, park monitoring and control.
• Development of electrical components for wave energy parks.

Active distribution of energy

• Advanced architectures for power systems: micro-networks for improving efficiency in buildings and neighbourhoods.
• Electricity Demand Management.
• High power converters for connection to the grid based on new components
• Efficient and sustainable energy vectors: the Electricity Grid of the future, energy storage, electrical mobility, hydrogen and fuel cells.