Press Release: Innovation Union: Three new European research infrastructures on wind, solar and nuclear energy announced

Research Ministers of the EU Member States and Associated Countries, together with the European Commission, announced in Brussels on 29 November 2010 three new pan-European energy research infrastructures. A wind research facility is planned in Denmark, a concentrated solar power installation in Spain and a nuclear research reactor in Belgium. The overall investment is about €1.2 billion. They will be part of the Roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). Energy research infrastructures play an important part in realizing the European Strategic Energy Technology (SET)-Plan.

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ESO: Background Information: Website: European Strategy Forum on Research Infrasructures (ESFRI) http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-european-strategy-forum-on-research-infrasructures-esfri/

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