Energy Institute Hrvoje Požar has been founded as a non-profit institution. Its goals are to provide expert and scientific support to: the strategic development of the Croatian energy system and its sub-systems, the processes of legislative reform and development, the advancement of economic relations, and to the development of relevant institutions.
The Institute’s main tasks include: expert and scientific research in the field of energy for state, regional and local administration and energy companies; expertise and analyses for the Croatian Energy Regulatory Council; management of National Energy Programmes and pilot projects; organisation of seminars, workshops and courses; publication of editions, periodicals and other forms of communication with experts, scientists and the general public, especially via Internet. The Institute carries out its mission in cooperation with numerous scientists and institutions from Croatia and abroad.
The idea to constitute the Energy Institute Hrvoje Požar grew, in late 1993, out of the need for a nonprofit institute that would provide support to reform processes, government institutions and energy sector companies. The Institute was founded as a limited liability company in 1994 by a decision of the Croatian Electric Utility Company’s Supervisory Board. One of the founders of the Institute, along with Goran Granić, Ph.D. who became the Institute’s first director, was Ivo Hrs, Ph.D., an energy expert with great knowledge and experience. His untimely death has interrupted his fruitful research and scientific career as well as his contribution to the field of energy.
The Institute’s first headquarters were located in HEP’s company building in Ulica grada Vukovara 37 in Zagreb. In the year 2000, the Institute’s headquarters were transferred to Savska cesta 163 in Zagreb, to a building specially reconstructed and equipped to enable the Institute to carry out its overall mission.
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