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Basílica, 19 – 6ºB
Madrid (28020)
Spain
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Phone: +34 91 598 06 83
Fax: +34 91 598 06 84
http://www.tecnalia.info

TECNALIA, Technology Corporation, is a internationally representative agent in the Technological Innovation world whose aim is to contribute to economic and social development, through the development and dissemination of Research.

The energy sector is subjected to a series of vectors that determine its evolution: liberalisation and integration processes of the energy market; sustained increase of energy consumption and growing demand for a higher quality supply; and finally, the ever increasing environmental demands on the sector, materialised in the EU by compliance with the Kyoto Protocol.

 

In electrical generation, innovation points towards the clean use of fossil fuels for electricity generation, CO2 capture and increasing the life of conventional power stations.

In electrical networks the trend is towards the automation of the networks to improve the efficiency and quality of the supply.

There is also a trend towards energy diversification using renewable energies, mainly wind, photovoltaic and biomass energies, and distributed systems of electrical energy such as cells and microturbines, with the need for an efficient interconnection of these distributed resources.

In the end use of the energy, innovation is directed at energy efficiency and demand management.

 

FIELDS OF APPLICATION

Electrical Networks:
- Management and operation of networks and equipment.
- Measuring electronics, supply protection, control and quality.
- Equipment and network connectivity: Communications protocols and systems. New Electricity Generation Technologies:
- Electricity generation and traction systems: electrical machines.
- Renewable Energies: Wind and Photovoltaic.
- Emerging Generation Technologies: Tidal.
- Fuel cells: Development of components for fuel cells.
- Hydrogen technologies: Hydrogen production and storage. Integration of renewables and hydrogen.

Energy socioeconomics:
- Regulation, energy markets socioeconomics associated with the integration of distributed generation

1. Actor:

   Other business / industry

2. Sector:

   Buildings, Energy, Energy efficiency (general), Photovoltaics, Renewable energy (general), Wind energy

3. Activity:

   Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Mexico, Spain