As Europe strives to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, Turku and Dijon are among a group of cities seeking to reach this goal two decades earlier.

A warm thank you to all our colleagues, partners and supporters. This year, we celebrated our 20th anniversary together with you, and as we continue to 2023, we wish all of you merry Christmas and a successful year 2023!

Many recent initiatives promoted at European level demonstrate a growing interest in the uptake of biomethane as a sustainable, renewable, and reliable energy source.

The SENERGY NETS project will highlight the benefits arising from integrating electricity, gas, heating and cooling systems.

The ORIENTING project moves forward with the first draft of the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment methodology.

The H2SHIPS project organised a seminar on hydrogen applications for shipping on October 26th in Brussels in the frame of the EU hydrogen week.

250 guests attended the anniversary event that was held on hybrid mode on October 11th at KIT Campus South in Karlsruhe.

French-German research institute European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER) has been bridging the gap between science and industry for already 20 years!

In the real-world lab project SoLAR in Allensbach (at Lake Constance/Germany) we demonstrate the potential of intelligent energy sector coupling. With a real-time price system on the basis of electric grid state variables, flexible appliances of every type, power and availability can be used as “virtual batteries”.

The H2SHIPS consortium gathered in Brussels for two days of meeting and workshop sessions aimed at facilitating knowledge exchange on the progress of the pilots in Belgium and the Netherlands and developing action plans for the upcoming and final deliverables.