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Committee on Energy Research and Technology (CERT)
The Committee on Energy Research and Technology (CERT) co-ordinates and promotes the development, demonstration and deployment of technologies to meet challenges in the energy sector.
The CERT Programme enables experts from different countries to work collectively and share results, which are usually published. The Programme's objectives are:
- improved energy efficiency and technology reliability;
- enhanced access to up-to-date assessments of energy technology performance;
- reduced environmental impact of energy-sector activities; and
- and co-operation with non-Member countries.
The CERT has established four expert bodies: The Working Party on Fossil Fuels; the Working Party on Renewable Energy Technologies; the Working Party Energy End-Use Technologies and the Fusion Power Co-ordinating Committee. In addition, expert groups have been established to advise on electric power technologies, R&D priority setting and evaluation, basic science research for energy, and on oil and gas. The IEA provides a framework for more than 40 international collaborative energy research, development and demonstration projects known as Implementing Agreements.