The SAMOTHRACE ecosystem has identified Energy as one of its pillars with the mission to create a diffuse methods and systems that could give rise to an innovative design, manufacturing, and usage of innovative techniques and devices for production, conversion, storage and usage of Energy from sustainable resources.

The variety of the Sicilian partners and their specific know-how and expertise allow SAMOTHRACE to face challenges in many of the most strategic sectors for Energy production, storage and usage in the incoming future.

Champion activities are focused on 1) Devices for producing/converting energy from renewable sources, such as Perovskite Solar Cells and traditional PV, dye-sensitized photoelectrosynthetic cells for artificial photosynthesis; fusion energy devices with diagnostic sensors, and spintronics; 2) Devices for Energy Storage based on innovative thermochemical energy storage strategies, energy storage from wastes, ammonia and hydrogen production, fuel cells; 3) Devices for energy usage such as power converters and monitoring/controlling devices for artificial lighting, and environmental impact analysis.

The initial activities of the pillar were focused on establishing the state of the art, designing preliminary experiments, and scouting of the most promising sectors and devices for future developments with TT initiatives.