National Energy Research Center

General information

The NERC aims to:
• Reduce the energy burden by improving methods, incentives and advisory services of efficient energy use to decrease total energy cost on the national level and to protect the environment.
• Educate Jordanian and regional engineers and technicians by holding training courses, seminars and workshops to enhance and develop local technical qualifications and experiences necessary for the use of new and renewable energies in addition to energy efficiency.
• Document needed energy information through establishing energy data bank to help in research studies and connect it to the national information database, and any other local and foreign institutions of similar goals to those of the Centre.
• Uphold the management and operation of laboratories, units and research and experimental stations to develop and use new and renewable energy sources and sell produced energy by these stations to the concerned parties.
• Collaborate with local, regional and international parties to enhance the abilities of the Centre in order to attain the desired goals.
• Effectively perform studies, research, and experimental projects in the field of using the local new renewable energy sources like oil shale, wind energy, solar energy bio-mass and geothermal to increase their contribution and satisfy the Kingdom's energy needs..