 PARTNERS
Fundación CENER-CIEMAT - Renewable Energy National Centre
Description of the organisation
National Centre for Removable Energy - CENER Project partner. CENER is the “Renewable Energy National Centre” of Spain. It is a technological centre oriented and specialized in renewable energies. CENER is integrated in the CENER-CIEMAT Foundation. It is a non profit company, created by the Science and Technological Ministry of Spain and by Navarra's Government to encourage both the research and the development of renewable energies. CENER has to be distinguished by its high technical level and quality of service. It has experienced and recognized technical staff.
CENER was born in 1999 when the Science and Technology Ministry of Spain (MCYT), CIEMAT depending on MCYT and Navarra's Government signed an agreement to create it. Technical activities started in November 2000. Later on, in February 2002, the basic structure was established and the main office was opened in Pamplona. In summer 2002 the Foundation started its commercial activities.
CENER’s Foundation Board is as follows:
CENER, as a foundation, is an organization destined to:
Support the level of the sector competitiveness for helping companies to reach their R&D needs: Offering high added value services and activities and Transferring technology. Support the renewable energies development by means of: The generation, acquisition and diffusion of high level scientific and technical knowledge and the support to the market player and to public institutions in the creation of proper technical and legal framework.
CENER has five technical department:
- Wind Energy
- Photovoltaic
- Bioclimatic Architecture
- Power electronics and energy storage laboratory
- Biomass Energy
CENER Biomass Energy Department has groups working on following topics:
- Thermal and Electrical applications (gasification and combustion)
- Biofuels and Resources Evaluation
- Energy crops
- Biodiesel
- Fermentation / Bioethanol
CENER staff has participate in several training course for Environmental Master or for Renewable energy companies.
List of most relevant projects
R&D Project from the Regional Government of Navarra
- Desarrollo metodo evaluación de recursos [Development of a method for the evaluation of biomass resources] (Biomass Energy)
- Proyecto de laboratorio de bioetanol [Implementation of the bioethanol laboratory] (Biomass Energy)
- Técnicas y procedimientos de curva de potencia [Techniques and procedures for the measurement of power curve in Wind Turbines] (Wind Energy)
- Técnicas y procedimientos de calidad de energía [Techniques and procedures for the measurement of power quality in Wind Turbines] (Wind Energy)
- Desarrollo de modelos de predicción viento y energía [Development of wind and energy forecasting methods] (Wind Energy)
- Desarrollo de modelos de curva de parque [Development of wind farrm curve models] (Wind Energy)
- Procedimiento certificación aerogeneradores [Procedure for wind turbine certification] (Wind Energy)
- Laboratorio de ensayos de palas [Blade test laboratory] (Wind Energy)
- Desarrollo método homologación de módulos [Development of a photovoltaic module certification method] (Photovoltaic)
- Desarrollo método caracterización de materiales [Development of a methodology for material characterisation] (Photovoltaic)
- Procedimiento diseño y caracterización de captadores [Procedure for design and characterisation of solar collectors] (Bioclimatic Architecture)
2. PROFIT Projects from the Science and Technology Ministry of Spain (MCYT)
- Estudio de múltiples asociaciones generador fotovoltaico-inversor, conectados a red [Study on multiple associations of grid connected generator-inverter]Invermulti FIT-120100-2003-106 (Photovoltaic)
- Laboratorio de captadores solares [Laboratory for solar collectors] (Bioclimatic Architecture)
- Células de Silicio delgadas con viabilidad industrial. [Thin sillicon cells with industrial viability] Silfcel. Contract Nº. FIT120100-2003-91 (Photovoltaic)
3. R&D Projects for the EU
- BIO-SOUTH: Techno-economical assessment of the production and use of biofuels for heating and cooling applications in South Europe” - EIE/255/S07.38609
- Integrated Biomass Utilisation For Production of Biofuels (IBUS) (Co-Production Biofuels) Contract N°: ENK6-CT-2002-00650 (Subcontractor from EHN) (Biomass Energy)
- Development of a Next Generation Wind Resource Forecasting System for the Lasrge-Scale Integration of Onshore and Offshore Wind Farrms. (Anemos). Contract Nº ENK5-CT-2002-00665.(Wind Energy)
- Bifacial Thin Industrial multi-Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells. Bithink. Contract Nº TREN/04/FP6EN/507/______/503105. (Photovoltaic)
- Multiple ownership grid connected PV Solar-Plots with optimised tracking and low concentration reflectors. (Solar-Plot). Contract Nº 503172 (Photovoltaic)
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