University of Groningen (RUG)
The University of Groningen (RUG )is a research university with a global outlook, deeply rooted in Groningen, City of Talent. Quality has had top priority for four hundred years, and with success: the University is currently in or around the top 100 on several influential ranking lists.
Energy related research:
RUG is capable to offer advanced insights in the energy transition with specific expertise in the hydrogen economy, batteries technologies, PV-materials and grid materials.
At RUG, we integrate these expertises with World leading expertises in energy law, environmental psychology, and climate economy and business. This ensures that the proposed technical solutions are also socio-economically optimized by design.
RUG seeminglessly integrated interdisciplinary approach can spur the energy transition. E.g., RUG helps to decongestionante the energy grid, by means of the introduction of green molecules in the energy mix. This enables the (further) economic development of industrial clusters, such as that in Veendam, now hampered by the lack of power from the electricity grid.
For years, RUG researchers have been contributing to energy related research as detailed below:
- Renewable Energy
- Energy Transition
- Energy Markets and Regulation
- Gas, Innovation and Smart Systems
- Interdisciplinary Research
- Social Dynamics of Sustainability
Energy related center/program under this partner (examples):
- The Centre for Energy Business and Economics Research (CEnBER)
- Groningen Energy and Sustainable Programme (GESP)
- Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen (ESRIG)
• Contact persons in NERA from this partner:
Scientific board member: Klaus Hubacek
Working group members: Leo Dvortsin, Patricia Poppendick