ECN | Energy research Centre of the Netherlands

Welcome to the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands, the largest research centre in the Netherlands on the field of energy. At this moment about 900 people work at ECN, which is situated in the dunes near Petten, a village in the northern part of Holland, about 40 km up north from Amsterdam. The research centre carries out research on the field of energy. With this work the researchers move between fundamental research on universities and appliance of knowledge and technologies in practice. This work has a huge impact on daily life. For example, solar systems are placed on roofs of houses and modern wind mills are spinning in the field because of technology which is developed by ECN. With this the institute exerts an imporant function for the society of today and tomorrow.

Mission
‘ECN develops high-level knowledge and technology for the transition to sustainable energy management.’

In more detail its mission is as follows:

* ECN focuses on the knowledge and information the government needs to develop and evaluate policy and achieve policy objectives in the field of energy, the environment and technological innovation.

* ECN partners industry in the development and implementation of products, processes and technologies important to the transition to sustainable energy management.

* ECN closely works together with Dutch and foreign universities and research institutes and performs a bridging function with implementation by carrying out technological research.