The US Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has signed a research collaboration agreement with the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN).
NREL and ECN will join forces on areas such as policy studies, energy
analysis, wind energy and solar photovoltaic energy. The cooperation
between ECN and NREL ranges from an exchange of expertise, to
participation in joint projects, to making use of each others’ research
facilities and conducting research on their behalf. In addition, NREL
and ECN will support each other in the arenas of technology transfer
and commercialisation.