Energy Research Center of the Netherlands
The Energy Research Center of the Netherlands ( ECN ) is the largest Dutch research center for renewable energies and is based in Petten, North Holland . It was founded in 1955.
There are eight research areas:
- Policy studies
- Energy efficiency in industry
- solar power
- Wind energy
- Renewable energies in the construction sector (DEGO)
- Biomass
- clean fossil fuels
There are about 600 employees (2011); 300 people are employed in the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG), a joint venture between ECN and KEMA . The facility is located with the Joint Research Center (Dutch: Gemeenschappelijk Centrum voor Onderzoek (GCO)) of the European Commission and Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals in the dunes of Petten.