Welcome to About IEA (Paris)

The International Energy Agency (IEA) was formed in 1974 as an autonomous body within the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The IEA has established a legal framework for international collaboration and carries out an energy technology programme among its 28 Member Countries including R&D, demonstration, and information exchange.

The IEA collaboration takes place under 42 Implementing Agreements, which currently cover a wide assortment of energy technologies in fossil fuels, renewable energy, nuclear fusion research and efficient energy end-use.

The Implementing Agreements "mechanism" is flexible and accommodates collaboration among different entities, such as governmental institutions, universities, utilities and private companies.

Implementing Agreements are supervised by the IEA Committee on Energy Research and Technology (CERT). As far as renewable energy sources are concerned, The Working Party for Renewable Energy Technologies (REWP) has a mandate from CERT to identify technologies likely to contribute to the IEA goals, to promote collaborative R&D and to initiate, promote, and review Implementing Agreements in this field.

Information on other IEA and OECD projects are available at the CADDET Renewable Energy Web site - a multi-language source of global information on proven, commercial applications covering the full range of renewable energy technologies.

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