Home  IRENA News IRENA Innovation and Technology Centre opened in Bonn
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 With the Innovation and Technology Centre (IITC) in Bonn, Germany, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, opened its European arm to work on a framework for renewable energy technology development, deployment support while looking into competitiveness and markets for renewables on a global scale, on the one hand. On the other hand the IITC aims to lay out scenarios and strategies that would allow the countries examined to use renewable energy adapted to their needs.
The IITC opening ceremony was held at the Steigenberger Grandhotel Petersberg on 7 October 2011.
For more information please follow this link to the press information released by IRENA.
To establish an international renewable energy agency to counterbalance the existing and primarily fossil and nuclear focused organisations was the idea of Hermann Scheer, an idea he struggled to make a reality for twenty years. Together with EUROSOLAR and the WCRE he laid the foundations for the road which led to the creation of IRENA in January 2009. For more, please refer to the background documentation 'The Long Road To IRENA'.
Related information:
Press release by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
More information on the development and launch of IRENA by EUROSOLAR:
 A chronology of activities to promote IRENA
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