CENER (National Renewable Energy Centre of Spain) in the context of ESA’s Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP) Programme will host the Ambassador Platform for European Adoption of Renewable Energy Sources (EARE).
Ambassador Platforms help ESA’s IAP Programme to set up relationships with user communities to collect requirements for new services while federating the demand towards sustainability of them.
In the framework of climate change mitigation and security of supply strategies, Renewable Energy Sources (RES) are becoming a priority worldwide. In this context, Europe has adopted ambitious objectives for the next decade (the so called ’20 20 20 by 2020’ objectives) and a Strategic Energy Technology Plan (‘SET-Plan’). The challenges for RES to become major contributors to the energy mix include cost reduction, large scale implementation and grid integration. Space technologies can be a fundamental part of the infrastructural and challenging solutions required to make RES integration within electricity grids a reality and to facilitate the large scale development of RES.
The objective of this Ambassador Platform, managed by CENER, is to assist ESA’s IAP programme in spreading awareness for stakeholders, along the value chain of potential services in the domain of Renewable Energy Sources (RES). With this purpose CENER will organize jointly with ESA-IAP a series of workshops to bring together RES & space communities to discuss opportunities for new projects in the framework of IAP. The first workshop will be organized at CENER headquarters in Pamplona the next 30th of March with the title “Renewables and space: finding the synergies”.