In consultation with the manufacturers, ENW, municipality, province and neighbours a design and operating plan was prepared for this site. If the required licences are granted, construction can start in the course of 1999. For example, the unit participated in several feasibility studies for wind parks abroad and in PV implementation projects in Botswana and Swaziland. Furthermore, a study was started on the possibility to base the energy supply of the Antillean island of Saba fully on renewable energy sources within ten years. ECN developed a package of measures for the building construction industry by which the energy consumption of new houses can be halved.
Children make solar cell Making a dye-sensitised solar cell is child's play.
The objective of the unit is to contribute to the achievement of the national targets on CO 2 reduction, and to the development of technologies to enable a gradual transition to an energy economy based to a greater extent on sustainable sources. Advanced conversion of biomass and production of synthesis gas and hydrogen form the central themes. At the end of 1998 the Ministry of Economic Affairs announced that it would not award Novem with the execution of another multi-year Fuel Cell programme. ECN regrets this and as a consequence it has decided to terminate the work on the molten-carbonate fuel cell in the course of 1999. The development horizon of this type of cell is as yet too distant to continue the work using own financial resources only.