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

Energy retrofit of Waaghaus historic demo building — 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

Facts
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131

Staff members

40 with a PhD degree

Ongoing projects

48 of them with international partners

Assignments (services and consultancies)

10 of them with international agencies

Journal publications

Contributions in conference proceedings

Laboratories and facilities

Data refer to the last issue of the Activity Report. See all Facts & Figures.

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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15 April 2024

Scientific partnership with REbuild

Workshop on comfort in plus energy buildings at Riva del Garda

04 April 2024

Round Table - Project Return

Project Return: Networking to understand and address risks from heat waves and drought in South Tyrol.

01 April 2024

New IEA SHC Task63 report on solar neighborhood planning

An Integrated Framework for Stakeholder and Citizen Engagement in Solar Neighborhoods

24 March 2024

Retrofit of historic alpine building

Reviving an Alpine hut through Community Engagement and Sustainable Technologies: The Valbrenta case-study

25 March 2024

Nuovo progetto EDIH NOI - servizi per la digitalizzazione

Presentato nuovo punto di riferimento per l’Intelligenza Artificiale

18 March 2024

Machine learning models for installed PV capacity estimation

New study on machine learning model that can automatically detect PV installations from aerial imagery for the extraction of photovoltaic data within the urban morphology

12 March 2024

Diagnosi avanzata e performance di moduli fotovoltaici bifacciali

Test elettroluminescenza e misura curva caratteristica per FRI EL Spa

04 March 2024

Durabilità degli intonaci: l’importanza di test in laboratorio e simulazioni

Serie di test per valutare la durabilità di intonaci a base di calce commissionati da Calchèra San Giorgio.

26 February 2024

Can climate affect the long-term performance of PV-systems?

New study investigates the performance of photovoltaic systems over their full lifetime using monitoring data from thousands of commercial PV systems.

06 February 2024

Characterization of adaptive opaque facades

New scientific publication reviews different laboratory tests in order to suggest a more complete testing procedure to characterize the performance of opaque façade components.

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