Renewable Energies
Environment from the beginning and energy recently have been very important issues that ICS has covered through its work.
Developing countries are increasingly asking for assistance in acquiring technologies and knowledge relative to energy production using local resources for different uses, both for the rural communities and for micro, small and medium enterprises as users and producers of both energy and equipment for energy production.
The implementation strategy of the Renewable Energies subprogramme will focus on a preliminary critical evaluation of perspectives in the short-medium term and the identification of critical technology areas to start capacity building programmes. In a second phase the activity will be devoted to detailed and local analysis of the different issues related to the integration of existing energy supply with renewable (geothermal, hydrogen) resources, namely: identification of local needs (base-load or peaking power plants, heating, other) and identification of resources and related technological requirements; onsite available technology and expected upgrades/integrations; local environmental conditions and impact of present energy sources; economic, environmental and social impact of the conversion to renewable energy). Contacts will be established with new partners and governmental organizations/institutions in emerging and Developing Countries for the promotion of this new subprogramme.
ICS would like to focus on the Implementation of new technologies to exploit geothermal resources, enhanced (or engineered) geothermal systems (EGS), third-generation technologies, designed for primary energy recovery using heat-mining methods; and to produce hydrogen from renewable resources.
The following short-term objectives are preparatory for future research projects which will serve to identify the optimal potential geothermal systems' location and to assist the responsible institutions from emerging and Developing Countries who can be interested in the selection of the appropriate technologies:
- To study the state-of-the-art of the most advanced technologies for geothermal energy utilization;
- To identify developing and emerging countries who could potentially use geothermal energy;
- To study the state-of-the-art of hydrogen production starting from renewable resources in general and biomass in particular.