“In search of the definitive energy”: a scientific conference in the V edition of the Tuesday of the Paraninfo

Mariano Sanz Badía will give this conference next Tuesday 19 November, in “Los martes del Paraninfo: Appointments with Emeritus professors” The University of Zaragoza has organised the 5th edition of “Los martes del Paraninfo”. An initiative in which, through an extensive programme of lectures given by emeritus professors from the University, topics of interest in…

FARCROSS will facilitate cross-border electricity flows through innovation

The project, financed with 13.6 million euros, begins with the objective of connecting all actors in the energy value chain to improve security of supply and the integration of renewables. The European Union needs to establish a geographically large market and improve its cross-border electricity interconnections in order to achieve its energy objectives. In this…

Thirty-eight students successfully pass the seventh edition of the course on integral management of packaging waste

The Department of Climate Change and Environmental Education of the Government of Aragon, ECOEMBES, ECOVIDRIO and CIRCE have celebrated the closing of this free course with a round table and the presentation of diplomas. The Specialization Course in Integral Management of Packaging Waste has celebrated the closing ceremony of its seventh edition with the awarding…

XPRESS, a facilitator for public-private partnerships in the energy sector

The transition to a decarbonized energy system requires the development of radical innovations and large capitals with an unguaranteed financial return, complicated tasks to be carried out exclusively by the private sector. Green Public Procurement, through which Public Administrations incorporate sustainable economic and environmental criteria into their purchases, is an effective public support for environmentally…

The PARITY project takes off in order to improve the flexibility of the network

The project has 17 partners, 4 of them Spanish, and is financed with more than 7.1 million euros by the European Commission. The European project PARITY starts with the objective of developing a series of solutions to increase the flexibility of the electrical distribution networks. These innovations will increase the durability and efficiency of the…

TALENT, cost-effective technological developments to accelerate the energy transition

CARTIF facilities in Spain hosted the launch meeting of the TALENT project this October. This project, financed with European funds, will last three years and aims to help the transition to a more sustainable energy system through the transformation of energy infrastructure throughout the phases of generation, transport and distribution. In recent years, the global…

POWER4BIO contributes to the Horizon Europe Programme in the framework of the European Research and Innovation Days

Brussels, 26 September 2019 Ignacio Martín, coordinator of the POWER4BIO project, participated last September 26th in the European Conference on Research and Innovation, as a speaker and moderator of the session ‘Bio-based Economy – Practical Innovations’. The session examined the main challenges and potentials in the field of bio-based innovations, including research and macro-regional (Bio-EAST),…

TORRECID opens its facilities to demonstrate the operation of the furnaces developed in the VULKANO project

On 18 and 19 September a meeting was held at Instalaciones de TORRECID, L’Alcora (Province of Castellón) within the context of the H2020 VULKANO project, led by the CIRCE Foundation. This way, one of the objectives of the demonstrator focused on implementing the VULKANO solution in one of its industrial furnaces and increasing its energy…