Furthermore, in the 2015 Panel of Experts (POE) report, the POE stated that Ri Je-son, a former director of the GBAE who was designated by the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006) in 2009 for engagement in or support for nuclear related programmes, was appointed as head of the MAEI on April 9, 2014.

34. Emphasises that hydropower must play a central role in the planned development of RES, primarily to balance out the increasingly volatile generation of power by RES but also, through pumped storage, as a method of storing electricity; stresses, therefore, that the existing development potential of hydroelectric power generation and pumped storage in the EU must be fully exploited;

35. Emphasises that hydropower must play a central role in the planned development of RES, primarily to balance out the increasingly volatile generation of power by RES but also, through pumped storage, as a method of storing electricity; stresses, therefore, that the existing development potential of hydroelectric power generation and pumped storage in the EU must be fully exploited;

32. Underlines the potential of smart grids, demand side management tools and energy storage solutions, both to facilitate the best possible integration of RES-E and to even out grid fluctuations; re-emphasises the urgent need for further research into, and deployment of, electricity storage including on the basis of cooperation with pumped-storage hydroelectric plants; notes in particular the need for further research into variable-speed storage options, which offer a more flexible system for controlling storage speeds and thus facilitate faster and better-matching connections; calls on the Member States to avoid imposing a double ta ...[+++]x burden on electricity storage operators;

(ii) promote the quality of public expenditure by redirecting towards physical and human capital accumulation and research and development so as to ensure substantial annual increase of per capita investment;

52. Points out that Europe is currently the leader in a number of areas (e.g. renewable energies, software development, mobile communications, development of sensors/actuators, consumer electronics, digital TV, drug development, combined cycle energy production, waste management and recycling, telematics for transport applications); it should be considered how Europe might also take the lead in the future in fields where it now lags well behind the USA (e.g. imaging and visualisation technologies, basic chip production, artificial intelligence, agrofood applications, photovo ...[+++]ltaics, battery development, ceramic material developments); a constant effort must be made to establish common standards; this is where Europe's advantage lies;