E.ON Research Initiative

The annual grant program was launched in 2007 to support researchers and teams at universities and institutes in a wide variety of research topics relevant to the energy business. In its research initiative, E.ON will invest around EUR60 million in international research projects until 2016 in order to find solutions for the challenges we are facing in the future energy supply. The focal topic of the research calls will change annually.

 

E.ON is funding research into new, innovative solutions in projects which are scheduled to last for several years. E.ON is dedicated to supporting international energy research to find new answers to pivotal questions in energy technology. In its efforts E.ON is not laying claim to the insights gained as they remain the property of researchers and are to be published and made accessible to the public.

 

E.ON believes that this investment into research, in order to meet future challenges in energy technology, is its responsibility as the world’s largest investor-owned energy service provider. E.ON wants to contribute the progress in global research of energy technologies significantly by its efforts. The research on new technologies that need strong financial support, even if they are not yet close-to-market will be support by E.ON. One aim of E.ON’s International Research Initiative is to generate results with potential benefit for society, environment and future energy supplies and not only for E.ON.

 

In 2007, "Energy Storage" was the topic of the annual grant program. This year the focus of the E.ON International Research Initiative is "Application of Nanotechnology in the Energy Business".