Annual Report 2011-2012

Annual Research Report 2011-2012
Cooperation with International Professional Association of
IERE
One of the main goals of NRI is to expand international collaboration with the aim of
upgrading its scientific level and gaining international credit. One way to achieve the
aforesaid goal is to participate and cooperate with international professional
associationS.Hence NRI became a member of two technical committees of IERE called
Generation Technical Committee and Network Technical Committee.
Reputable organizations and institutes like TEPCO(Japan), CPRI(India),
KEPCO(Korea), TNB(Malaysia), GE(America), Toshiba(Japan), TPC(Taiwan),
PLN(Indonesia) are members of these two committees.
The objectives of establishing these two committees are know-how transfer, exchanging
technical information, searching for technical issues and seeking for their solutions and
determining overall directions of activities.
In order to interact more with other members and optimal use of existing capacities and
potentials to meet challenges of electric power industry, a new working group as "R&D
collaborative projects" was added to the above mentioned working groupS.
With regard to NRI active participation in technical groups, NRI was also invited to
announce its priorities for "R&D collaborative projects". Hence the following 5 projects
were proposed to IERE.
1. Nanostructure thin film solar cells
2. Fuel cells
3. Smart Grid for Iran's electric power distribution network
4. Repowering and increasing the efficiency of power plants
5. CHP and CCHP systems
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