Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands

The Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) is the largest Dutch centre for study into energy. It is based in Petten and has about 600 employees (as of January 2011).The institute consists of 8 research areas:

• Policy studies
• Energy efficiency in industry
• Solar power
• Wind energy
• Renewable energy in the built environment (DEGO)
• Biomass
• Clean fossil fuels

300 employees work at the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG), a joint venture of ECN and KEMA. Together with the Joint Research Centre (in Dutch Gemeenschappelijk Centrum voor Onderzoek (GCO)) of the European Commission and Mallinkrodt (a division of Tyco Healthcare), they are located in the Petten dunes.

See also

• Institute for Energy (IE)

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