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Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Savings (CRES) | Greece

The Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Savings (CRES) is the Greek national centre for Renewable Energy Sources (RES), Rational Use of Energy (RUE) and Energy Saving (ES). Its main goal is the promotion of RES/RUE/ES applications at a national and international level, as well as the support of related activities taking into consideration the environmental impacts, on energy supply and use.It is the official Greek government consultant on matters of RES/RUE/ES in national policy, strategy and planning.

CRES Biomass Research Team has long-term experience in biomass resource assessment and energy crops as well as in economic appraisal and environmental assessment of bioenergy and biofuel chains. The medium term RTD priorities include biofuels, energy crops, and biomass logistics while the long term will also include biorefinery, pyrolysis and hydrogen from biomass.

In addition to the above CRES provides technical support in the Greek market on resource supply issues (including economics and environmental assessments), energy cropping, small-scale heat applications fuelled with biomass and biogas plants fuelled with cattle manure. Finally, the potential active involvement in the development of biomass supply networks could provide is seen as a high added value topic for the development of the bioenergy sector in Greece.

Contact: and Website: www.cres.gr