IEA Technology Collaboration Programmes (TCPs)
Austrian experts and companies are currently active in 23 out of 39 IEA Technology Collaboration Programmes (TCPs) and one expert group.
Renewable energy
End-use technology
- Industrial Energy-related Technologies and Systems (IETS)
- Decarbonization of Cities and Communities (Cities)
- Energy Efficient End-use Equipment (4E)
- Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC)
- District Heating and Cooling including Combined Heat and Power (DHC/CHP)
- Co-Operative Programme on Advanced Materials for Transportation Applications (AMT TCP)
- Advanced Fuel Cells (AFC)
- Advanced Motor Fuels (AMF)
- User-Centred Energy Systems (UsersTCP)
- Hybrid and Electric Vehicle (HEV)
- Heat Pump Technologies (HPT)
- Completed: Demand Side Management Energy Efficiency (DSM) - DSM has been merged with the UsersTCP
- Completed: Electricity Networks Analysis, Research
and Development (ENARD) - ENARD has been merged with the ISGAN program
Fossil fuels
- Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
- Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (GHG)
- Fluidized Bed Conversion (FBC)
- Completed: Clean Coal Center (CCC) - Austria resigned from the Clean Coal Center program in 2016
Expert Group
- Equality in Energy Transitions (Equality Initiative)
- Experts' Group on R&D Priority Setting and evaluation (EGRD)
- Completed: Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E) - continues as Equality in Energy Transitions (Equality Initiative) since 2022
- Climate Technology Initiative (CTI) - closed in June 2017
Working Parties
Within the Committee on Energy Research and Technology (CERT) the various issues are grouped and assigned to five Working Parties:
