Europe's energy system demonstrates unsustainable patterns of development characterised by growing dependence on imported fossil fuels, rising energy demand and growing CO2 emissions. These unsustainable patterns are exacerbated in key sectors like buildings and transport that are intimately linked with the quality of life of European citizens. The challenge is to alleviate and reverse these adverse trends to achieve a truly sustainable energy system, while preserving the equilibrium of ecosystems and encouraging economic development.

The strategic and policy objectives of this programme of research1 into sustainable energy systems include reducing greenhouse gases and pollutant emissions (Kyoto), increasing the security of energy supplies, improving energy efficiency and increasing the use of renewable energy, as well as enhancing the competitiveness of European industry and improving quality of life both within the EU and globally (Johannesburg follow-up). In addressing these objectives through this Work Programme, a clear differentiation is made between research activities having the potential for exploitation in the short to medium term and those which are expected to have an impact in the medium to longer term. This distinction between the short-to-medium and medium-to-long term time frames is applicable to all indirect research actions in the sustainable energy sector and it is intended that the budgetary appropriations be split equally between the two time frames.

The Institute has research interest in the following topics from the 2005-2006 WP for this priority area: Topics of Interest List.

The Energy Institute has participated in various FP6 projects as a partner and coordinator. The Institute has already gained a prestious status in European energy research community through these partnerships and effective networking. Currently, its partnership is widely seeked by project groups that propose on Sustainable Energy Systems (SP1 - Priority 6-) priority area.

For more information on the running FP6 projects of the Institute, please click on the acronym of the project below.

EU-DEEP (IP): The Birth of a European Distributed Energy Partnership That Will Help The Large-Scale Implementation of Distributed Energy Resources in Europe

NATURALHY (IP): Preparing for the hydrogen economy by using the existing natural gas system as a catalyst

HY-PROSTORE (SSA): Improving of the S&T research capacity of TUBITAK MRC ESERI in the fields of hydrogen production and storage technologies

BIGPOWER (SSA): Improvement of the S&T Research Capacity of TUBITAK-MRC Institute of Energy in the Fields of Integrated Biomass Gasification with Power Technologies

The Institute has been involved in other European and bilateral international projects. You can find information on these projects on the Institute's web site in english.

For further information on the Institute's FP6 projects and activities, you can contact the project managers on the project page or the FP6 Contact Persons below.

Dr. Atilla ERSOZ (Atilla.Ersoz@mam.gov.tr)

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Hayati OLGUN (Hayati.Olgun@mam.gov.tr )

Last Updated: 29.08.2005