Building the future together

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), efficiency policies could enable the world to achieve more than 40% of the emissions cuts needed to reach its climate goals without new technology. At EPFL, energy efficiency research covers a vast number of aspects such as power-to-gaz and cogeneration, building design, industrial separation processes, small scale turbomachinery, (…)

Energy storage is the biggest challenge drawn by the transformation of the energy system. The shift from fissile and fossil fuels to renewable energy carriers imply the development of affordable storage systems at an unprecendented scale. EPFL laboratories address energy storage from fundamental to applied research, including materials theory and simulation, metal organic frameworks, and (…)

Conversion technologies allow the transformation of energy forms and thus the harvesting of all sources of energy, be they the Sun’s electromagnetic radiation, the Earth’s internal heat, thermonuclear fusion, or the fall of dammed water. EPFL ranks amongst the World’s leading institutions in energy research, addressing highly competitive topics such as perovskite solar cells, thermo/electro/photochemistry, (…)