EXCELLEND ERA Chair

EXCELLEND ERA Chair

Agia Paraskevi, Greece

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Profile last updated: June 16, 2026

About

EXCELLEND ERA Chair is a renewable energy company headquartered in Agia Paraskevi, Greece specializing in Solar, Hydrogen, Energy Storage.

EXCELLEND is a Horizon Europe ERA Chair project launched on 1 February 2025 with a five-year duration. It aims to establish a Centre of Excellence in sustainable energy solutions at NCSR Demokritos in Greece, bringing together the institute's dispersed energy-related research activities into an integrated hub. Research groups cover solar energy applications and thermal storage, energy conversion processes, thermal processes and integrated energy systems, heat pumps and refrigeration, and flexibility and digitalization. The project is led by Prof. George Tsatsaronis and coordinated by Dr. George Kosmadakis, with a stated goal of supporting the transition to net-zero fossil fuels and climate neutrality by 2050.

Headquarters

Agia Paraskevi, Greece

Focus areas

sustainable energy researchsolar thermalheat pumpswaste heat recoveryhydrogenenergy storageHorizon EuropeERA ChairCentre of Excellence

Products & services

Value chain

R&D

Service areas (1)

  • Sustainable energy research and innovation

    Research on sustainable energy systems, including solar thermal, heat pumps, waste heat recovery, hydrogen, and energy storage, with training, collaboration and dissemination activities.

Locations

Headquarters

Neapoleos Str 27, 15341, Agia Paraskevi, Greece

Service regions

Greece

Projects

1

Open-access solar parabolic trough collector field dataset

OperationalSolar parabolic trough collector field

Open-access dataset of measurements from a solar parabolic trough collector field at the Solar & Other Energy Systems Laboratory of NCSR Demokritos, prepared within the EXCELLEND ERA Chair project.

Agia Paraskevi, Greece
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Credentials & affiliations

Partnerships

National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, National Technical University of Athens, Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving

People

Management & team (6)

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