Energy Center ‐ EPFL

Building the future together

The mission of EPFL Energy Center (CEN) is to promote energy research led by EPFL, by challenging state-of-the-art technologies and addressing society’s challenges together to shape tomorrow’s energy system.

Research

Energy Center interacts closely with EPFL’s laboratories and startups to address current and future challenges of the energy sector. It serves as an entry point for individuals and companies searching for world-class education and competence in energy research and technology.

Outreach

CEN is EPFL’s interface between its energy research laboratories and the public, companies and investors. Its role is to inform about the latest developements in energy research at EPFL, establish the link with competent laboratories and support the development of collaboration projects.

Education

EPFL Energy Center contributes to the development of a coherent education program in energy at EPFL, including the traditional bachelor, master and PhD education programs. It also designs and organizes tailored education programs such as summer schools, MOOCs and executive lectures in energy.

Laboratories linked to the Energy Center

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Online tools

Massive Open Online Course • Energyscope Calculator • Interview series

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Energy Sectors

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Storage

Conversion

Systems

Society

Building out of concrete, but without pouring concrete

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Research

EPFL researchers have built a footbridge prototype using reinforced-concrete blocks from walls of a building being renovated. The blocks were cut into individual pieces on site and assembled into a prestressed arch. This project, which marks the first time concrete has been reused in this way, is part of an initiative to substantially shrink the construction industry’s carbon footprint by adopting a circular economy approach. The footbridge will be inaugurated at a ceremony at the Smart Living Lab in Fribourg on 11 October.

Using heat from underground parking lots to warm apartments

07.10.21NewsInnovation

EPFL spin-off Enerdrape has developed technology that can recover heat from underground parking lots and use it to warm the apartments above. Its geothermal wall panels are currently undergoing pilot tests at a building in Lausanne’s Sébeillon district.

A heating plant that combines renewable energy sources

08.09.21NewsEPFL

EPFL has recently brought an innovative heating plant online and will soon connect it to a large data center. The plant will help the Ecublens campus optimize how it generates and consumes energy, with the goal of achieving carbon neutrality.

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The Valais Energy Demonstrators

The aim of the district demonstrator is to prove the viability of the technologies developed on the Energypolis Campus, in particular CO2 management. The CO2 is captured, transformed and recycled in the form of energy at various levels. It also demonstrates the way in which it is possible to remotely exploit and control an energy (…)