At the 4th SFERA-III Doctoral Colloquium and Summer School, around fifty young researchers from all over the world met in Cologne from 11 to 15 September 2023. 🎓 Doctoral students from the Institute of Solar Research and the Institute of Future Fuels exchanged expertise with their European colleagues and made valuable contacts. Summer school SFERA [...]
The SolarPACES network, under the auspices of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has presented this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award to a duo: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Pitz-Paal from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Dr. Eduardo Zarza from the Spanish research centre CIEMAT. SolarPACES thus acknowledges the leading role of Pitz-Paal and Zarza in research and [...]
El pasado mes de septiembre, Óscar Balseiro fue nombrado nuevo secretario general de la Asociación Española para la Promoción de la Industria Termosolar (Protermosolar) en sustitución de David Trebolle. Con una amplia experiencia en el ámbito energético, Balseiro nos habla de los retos y las oportunidades que ofrece esta tecnología renovable, capaz de generar electricidad [...]
The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, together with his entourage and a delegation of businessmen from the energy sector, will visit the Chinese Concentrated Solar Power plant with the highest production in the world, according to H2 News. President Boric, accompanied by representatives of Cosin Solar, an international company that is part of the Asociación [...]
Tunisia is innovating in the field of desalination. Tunisian engineers have just inaugurated Desaltec-z1 at the Miladi organic oil mill in Zarzis, in the south-east of the country. The new plant desalts well water using the reverse osmosis process, powered by solar thermal energy. Work on the solar thermal water desalination plant in Zarzis is [...]
An international team of engineers accepted the Technology Innovation Award at the 2023 Solar Power and Chemical Systems (SolarPACES) conference on 13 October. We spoke to Dr Juan Felipe Torres about how the structure of their new solar energy coating mimics that of sea coral. A snorkeler and scuba diver from the age of 5, Dr [...]
A worldwide survey of project developers shows an extremely positive trend for the next few years. 62 plants with 331 MW are being planned – half of them in Europe. The Solar Industrial Heat Outlook 2023-2026 presents the results of the survey in a series of infographics. The Middle East and Southern Europe will be [...]
La fotovoltaica generó el 16% en septiembre, la eólica el 17,3% y la termosolar el 1,9% en septiembre, La demanda de energía eléctrica de España desciende un 2,4% en septiembre. El 42,1% de la producción eléctrica del mes fue renovable y el 68,8% no emitió CO2 equivalente. La solar fotovoltaica generó durante este mes un [...]
Kuwait is set to advance its long-awaited 4-gigawatt (GW) Shagaya solar power project, with the Request for Qualification (RFQ) for various phases scheduled for release by the end of this year, according to a senior official. The Shagaya project, tendered as an Independent Power Project (IPP), aims to connect all its phases to the grid [...]
A new chance for KLINGER Brazil to contribute to a green energy project recently came about in Rosana, São Paulo, where Eudora Energia just completed the nation’s first heliothermal power plant. Heliothermal energy, also known as concentrated solar power or CSP converts solar energy into heat through the use of parabolic mirrors and thermal fluid. [...]