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Institute for Renewable Energy

Institute for Renewable Energy

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To counteract climate change, energy supplies must become CO2-neutral as quickly as possible. We are involved in this transformation at all levels, we collaborate with industry partners on technological innovations and advise decision-makers on setting the course for the transformation of entire systems.

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Laboratories at NOI Techpark© Eurac Research - Ivo Corrà
The PV Integration Lab is a facility for the integration of photovoltaic systems in buildings and grids.© Eurac Research - Ivo Corrà
Refurbishment of social housing in Bolzano as part of the SINFONIA Project.© Eurac Research - Ivo Corrà
Accelerated ageing tests and environmental stress on the charging stations produced by the South Tyrolean company Alpitronic.© Eurac Research - Annelie Bortolotti
Consultacy on conservation work on disused historic building carried out as part of the European project 3ENCULT.© Eurac Research - Florian Berger
Prefabricated façade with decentralized office air conditioning machine, designed as part of a bilateral project with Stahlbau Pichler​​. © Eurac Research - Annelie Bortolotti
The Institute provided assistance on the implementation and development of Ukraine’s plans on energy from renewable sources as part of an Austrian-Italian Consortium.© Unsplash - Philipp Katzenberger
In the Heat Pumps Lab, individual heat pumps and complete systems can be tested under stationary and dynamic conditions.© Eurac Research - Ivo Corrà
The Façade System Interactions Lab is designed to assess the interaction between the elements that make up a building and its interior environment.© Eurac Research - Francesco Babich
Consultancy and planning of sustainable energy models and policies at a local, regional and national level.© Eurac Research - Ivo Corrà
The Hygrothermal Testing Lab performs measurements of the thermal and hygrometric properties of building materials.© Eurac Research - Ivo Corrà

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123
Staff members
38 with a PhD degree
74
Ongoing projects
43 of them with international partners
71
Assignments (services and consultancies)
5 of them with international agencies
55
Journal publications
10
Laboratories and facilities

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Research Groups

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Sustainable heating and cooling systems

The research group on sustainable heating and cooling systems focus on the integration of heat pump systems in a variety of applications, both in the ...

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Photovoltaic Energy Systems

The focus of the research group is set on performance and reliability of photovoltaic systems, solar resources, exploitation and mitigation of variability, PV ...

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Energy Efficient Buildings

This research group focuses on energy flexible buildings and building clusters, faҫade system concepts, architectural solutions for natural ventilation and ...

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Energy retrofit of historic buildings

This research group focuses on energy performance of historic buildings and districts, offers solutions of energy retrofit compatible with conservation, ...

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Urban and regional energy systems

The goals of the group are the sustainable energy planning and policies, spatial decision support systems, models for sustainable energy development, big data ...

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Overall energy system modelling and e-mobility

The research group deals with modeling of overall energy systems integrating different energy sources, efficiency measures and storage. Research focuses also on ...

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News & Events

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14 June 2022

Progetto New-Air: evento finale

24 giugno - Evento finale del progetto New-Air sulla qualità dell'aria negli ambienti interni realizzato da Eurac Research, Eurotherm ed Enetec.

14 June 2022

New project MODERATE

Eurac Research leads the new 'MODERATE' project for the development of marketable open data solutions for the optimisation of building energy services.

13 June 2022

What will the future of electric mobility look like?

13th June - Eurac Research at the International Electric Vehicle Symposium in Oslo

27 May 2022

Eurac Research at the Clean Energy Industrial Forum 2022

Eurac Research takes part at CEIF´s second high-level meeting on how to accelerating the deployment of clean energy in the EU

10-11.06.2022

A window on the NEB-Mountain / Widespread Festival

18 May 2022

New European Bauhaus

All the initiatives and events of the upcoming months...

28 April 2022

Fiera KlimaHouse 2022

Dal 18 al 23 maggio saremo presenti alla fiera Klimahouse 2022 presso lo stand A04/22

03 May 2022

CAPACITY BUILDING 2014-2021

Otto anni a sostegno di ricerca e innovazione in Alto Adige

04 May 2022

Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda

Eurac Research contributes to the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of the ETIP-PV and EERA-PV

07 April 2022

EFL Topic Group Construction on emissions savings

Eurac Research takes part at the EFL meeting in Bolzano from 7 to 8 April, talking about energy, emissions and buildings

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Projects

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4RinEU

EU H2020 4RinEU - Robust and Reliable technology concepts and business models for triggering deep ...

Duration: September 2016 - June 2021Funding: Competitive Industries (Horizon ...
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REWARDHeat

EU H2020 REWARDHeat - Renewable and Waste Heat Recovery for Competitive District Heating and Cooling ...

Duration: September 2019 - September 2023Funding: Societal Challenge (Horizon 2020 ...
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PV IMPACT

PV IMPACT - Actual execution of the Implementation Plan for Photovoltaics and monitoring the ...

Duration: March 2019 - March 2022Funding: Societal Challenge (Horizon 2020 ...
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SINFONIA

EU FP7 SINFONIA - Smart INitiative of cities Fully cOmmitted to iNvest In Advanced large-scaled ...

Duration: May 2014 - June 2020Funding: Cooperation (FP7 /EU funding ...
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INFINITE

EU H2020 INFINITE - INDUSTRIALISED DURABLE BUILDING ENVELOPE RETROFITTING BY ALL-IN-ONE ...

Duration: October 2020 - April 2025Funding: Competitive Industries (Horizon ...
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LIFE4HeatRecovery

EU LIFE - LIFE4HeatRecovery - Low Temperature, Urban Waste Heat into District Heating and Cooling ...

Duration: June 2018 - June 2023Funding: 2014 - 2020 (Life+ /EU funding ...
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EnergyMatching

EU H2020 EnergyMatching - Adaptable and adaptive RES envelope solutions to maximise energy ...

Duration: October 2017 - July 2022Funding: Competitive Industries (Horizon ...
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VARCITIES

EU H2020 VARICITIES - VISIONARY NATURE BASED ACTIONS FOR HEATH, WELLBEING & RESILIENCE IN CITIES

Duration: August 2020 - February 2025Funding: Societal Challenge (Horizon 2020 ...
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CULTURAL-E

EU H2020 CULTURAL-E - Climate and cultural based design and market valuable technology solutions for ...

Duration: September 2019 - September 2024Funding: Competitive Industries (Horizon ...
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TRUST-PV

EU H2020 TRUST-PV: Increase Friendly Integration of Reliable PV plants considering different market ...

Duration: August 2020 - August 2024Funding: Competitive Industries (Horizon ...

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Institute's Projects

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Contatto

Wolfram Sparber

Head of Institute

Alexandra Troi

Vice Head of Institute

Institute for Renewable Energy

Via A.-Volta 13/A 39100 Bolzano Italy

T 006 550 1740 93+

ude.carue@ygrene.elbawener

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