Research, development and innovation belongs to the core business of WATTPIC
Actually WATTPIC is executing four research projects supported by and with collaboration of the Catalan Centre of Innovation and Development for Companies (CIDEM) from the department of public works and industry of the Catalan government.

 Research projects:

 Technical and economical optimisation of thermal solar energy for ACS
Management of battery charging stratgies for PV applications
Consumer oriented integrated management system for renewable energy applications
Micro distributed generation: Micro network for distributed generation

Micro network in Mas Roig at WATTPIC's technology centre, municipality of Llagostera (Girona)
 
Projects in execution:

DeSol:

Main objective of this European project is to develop a solar desalination technology for seawater desalination in the Mediterranean area. DeSol aims to realize a system with an efficient process that desalinates water into potable water using thermal energy.

Wattpic is involved in the technical design and exploitation of this technology. The DeSol project started in January 2006 and will run for two years.

For more information please contact Hugo: international@wattpic.com

The consortium is made up of the following partners:

Lohse Germany : http://www.lohse-gmbh.de/
Legelab Sweden
Optical Products Great Britain
WATTPIC Intelligent Energy, Spain
Club Mediterranee, France
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Germany
CRIC Spain
Aqua treatment Ireland