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"The high level of participation demonstrates the adequacy of setting up cooperation focusing on this topic." Read more »

Annex 15 -  Industrial Excess Heat Recovery finished in December 2021. The participants are currently working at full speed on the final report, which will finally be submitted to the ExCo IETS in January 2022. Read more »

Industry roadmapping and decarbonisation is increasingly becoming a hot topic thereby opening new opportunities for further international collaboration. Read more »

The outstanding event this year associated with Task XVII (Membranes in biorefineries) was certainly Euromembrane 2021 in Copenhagen. Read more »

"The biggest task is now to find the overlaps in the broad field in order to enable fruitful cooperation and target-oriented exchange." Read more »

The Smart Industrial Concept (SIC!) aims to develop ways to optimise the use of energy in industrial plants, including energy conversion, distribution and storage, and to investigate their interaction with the basic conditions of the energy industry. Watch the video… Read more »

“There is a very positive attitude towards more collaboration and knowledge sharing in the area of energy efficiency and GHG mitigation in industry”, says IETS Chair Thore Berntsson. “Several ideas will be developed further and hopefully result in concrete projects.” Read more »

To cover all industrial technology and system aspects, the IETS ExCo members seeks guidance from so called National Support Groups (NSGs) within each country. On 21 October, representatives from these national groups met online for a workshop. Read more »

DSS and Ex-ante evaluation. The workshop is initiated by Annex XI - Industry-based Biorefineries. Read more »

The digital transformation is already influencing many aspects of daily life. Also, in industry, digitalization has become an essential part of business and research. Digitalization measures offer possibilities to increase the productivity and flexibility of an industrial process and thus,… Read more »

A new Legal Text has been adopted by the IETS ExCo and will be implemented in terminology, procedures, documents etc. during 2021. The most visible change will be to the project structure: Annexes will from now on be called Tasks to conform with the rest of the TCPs. Read more »

Today in the Lab – Tomorrow in Energy? is an IEA initiative designed to shine a spotlight on research projects under development in the Technology Collaboration Programmes (TCPs). The IETS contribution is the Smart Industrial Concept (SIC!). Read more »