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REVEAL Project: SwissCore Article

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REVEAL Project: SwissCore Article

How could aluminium help to fight climate change by closing the winter gap? Read the interview by SwissCore with Michel Haller, the technical coordinator of the REVEAL project, the multinational collaboration forming the basis to reveal the full potential of aluminium as long-term energy storage in a Swiss-EU success story.
Zuzana Tatakova

In the article, Michel Haller, head of Research at SPF Institute for Solar Technology, an institute from Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (FH OST), explains the very origin of the REVEAL project:

 

“Haller and his team put together a consortium of nine organisations from seven European countries, wrote the application for the Horizon Europe call for Emerging technologies for a climate-neutral Europe and prepared to become REVEAL’s coordinator. However, one month before the call’s opening date, Switzerland got excluded from Horizon Europe, and the consortium had to adapt to the new situation. Haller remembers: “then we kindly asked our Icelandic colleagues if they would take over the coordinator role, and gratefully, they agreed to take over the administrative aspects while we kept the technical lead.”

 

He then stresses the importance of our project outcomes, especially after this winter, which “has (re)taught us Europeans what it is to freeze. Not because it was particularly cold but because the heaters were turned off in many places due to the rising cost of gas and oil.”

 

Read the full article here.

 

To discover more about the REVEAL project, visit our website

Petra Colantonio
Themes
Energy efficiency technologies and solutions