Centre for Renewable Energy Sources

Website: http://www.cres.gr/
Country: Greece

The Centre for Renewable Energy Sources (CRES) is the Greek national centre for Renewable Energy Sources (RES), Rational Use of Energy (RUE) and Energy Saving (ES). CRES was founded in September 1987 and its main goal is the promotion of RES/RUE/ES applications at a national and international level. In addition to over 2000 square meters of main office space, incorporating PV and geothermal heat pumps, there are also experimental outdoor installations, specialised laboratories for energy technologies and a strong computing infrastructure. CRES has a 3 MW demonstration wind park in the area of Keratea that is connected to the distribution grid, where it has developed a wind-powered, pilot-scale Hydrogen production and storage plant with compressor and filling station. CRES recently inaugurated its new hydrogen laboratory, equipped with an alkaline and a PEM electrolyser, one AFC and one PEMFC, a bioethanol reformer, conventional hydrogen storage, metal hydrides and a fuel cell test-bench.