LITEN - Laboratory for Innovation in New Energy Technologies and Nanomaterials

Img 120x120px - Génération 2006 de micros piles à combustible (micro-PAC). Crédit P.Stroppa/CEA

Liten: Future Energy Technologies

Based mainly in Grenoble and Chambéry (INES), CEA Liten (Laboratory of Innovation for New Energy Technologies and Nanomaterials) is one of most important and younger European research centers on new technologies of energy.

Liten is a major partner for industry with 350 contracts of partnership research in course this year. The results of their technological research is patents : 96 patents registered by Liten in 2008.With an annual budget of 68,3 M€, Liten employs 600 people specialists in the fields of physics, chemistry and the nanomaterials ones.

Liten activities are focused on three keys areas : solar energy, motor vehicle transport -hybrid and electric- (storage, hydrogen and fuel cell) and nanomaterials at the origin of many technological ruptures.

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26th of october, 2009

3S swiss solar system and CEA Liten develop the new generation of photovoltaic modules.

Solar group 3S (Swiss Solar Systems), the technological world market leader for manual and semi-automatic production lines for solar module manufacture from Switzerland and CEA Liten (Laboratory of Innovation for New Energy Technologies), a French technological research organization, have signed a three year agreement to collaborate on the development of photovoltaic modules based on silicon-based heterojunction * solar cells and of associated tools to produce these type of modules.

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19th of june, 2009

Our objectives: Zero CO2 journey around the Mediterranean

For the first time a hydrogen fuel cell that powers an auxiliary electric motor in place of petrol

The project's objective is to sail around the Mediterranean using a yacht powered by a clean carbon-free auxiliary motor (petrol motors are commonly used in yachts for all manoeuvres in port).The yacht will be presented for the first time at the Paris Boat Show in December 2009. A 12m craft built by the RM shipyard of La Rochelle, the "Zero CO2" will be equipped with an electric motor driven by a hydrogen fuel cell, developed by CEA Liten of Grenoble, France.

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16th of june, 2009

CEA Eurotalents.

A European Commission funded program, aims at increasing and facilitating international mobility of scientists in the following five research domains.

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1st-2nd of july, 2009

Intermittent Energy Storage Via Chemicals - Bourget du Lac.

La Fédération Française pour les sciences de la Chimie (FFC) et l'Institut National de l'énergie solaire (INES) organisent un colloque autour du stockage des énergies intermittentes par voie chimique.

Ouvert aux industriels comme aux scientifiques, l' Intermittent Energy storage Via Chemicals aura pour objectif de présenter les différentes technologies usitées pour le stockage des énergies intermittentes, notamment par électrolyse.

Click here to read more : Energy storage preliminary programm

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