Energy Technology Initiatives 2013
Implementation through Multilateral Co-operation
Ensuring energy security and addressing climate change cost-effectively are key global
challenges. Tackling these issues will require efforts from stakeholders worldwide.
To find solutions, the public and private sectors must work together, sharing burdens
and resources, while at the same time multiplying results and outcomes.
Through its broad range of multilateral technology initiatives (Implementing Agreements),
the IEA enables member and non-member countries, businesses, industries, international
organisations and non-governmental organisations to share research on breakthrough
technologies, to fill existing research gaps, to build pilot plants and to carry out
deployment or demonstration programmes across the energy sector. In short, their work
can comprise any technology-related activity that supports energy security, economic
growth, environmental protection and engagement worldwide.
Some 40 Implementing Agreements carry out programmes in the areas of energy efficiency
(buildings, electricity, industry, and transport), fossil fuels (clean coal, enhanced
oil recovery, carbon capture and storage), fusion power (tokamaks, materials, technologies,
safety, alternate concepts) and renewable energy technologies, and cross-cutting topics
(technology transfer, research databases, and modeling).
This publication highlights the most significant recent achievements of the IEA Implementing
Agreements. The core of the IEA Energy Technology Network, these initiatives are a
fundamental building block for facilitating the entry of new and improved energy technologies
into the marketplace.
Published on April 28, 2014