SolarPACES 2021: Abstract Submission extended until 22 June! As we have received several requests to extend the deadline for abstract submission, we are providing an extension until Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021! Your scientific or technical abstract (PDF, max 2 pages)...
SolarPACES Announcements
SolarPACES 2021 – First Announcement and Call for Papers
SolarPACES 2021 – First Announcement and Call for Papers September 27 - October 1, 2021 SolarPACES (Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems) is pleased to announce the SolarPACES 2021 conference to be held from September 27 - October 1, 2021 as an online event....
Program for the 2020 SolarPACES Conference is Now Online
SolarPACES 2020 is coming up soon; starting Monday, 28th September. We are happy to update you on the latest news and program additions. Conference Program The full program of technical and plenary sessions is now available online. More than 400 contributions in the...
SolarPACES 2020 Online Registration is Open
The online registration is now available on the conference website. SolarPACES (Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems) will be held as an online event from September 28 - October 02, 2020. We strive to make this an opportunity to connect the CSP community in a new...
SolarPACES Conference, Deadlines and the COVID Pandemic
SolarPACES 2020 Abstract Submission Extended: May 11 Due to the current situation, we are providing a short extension of the submission deadline until Monday, May 11, 2020. To present a paper, an extended abstract should be submitted electronically and should provide...
SolarPACES 2018 Proceedings Now Published with AIP
SolarPACES 2018 Proceedings Now Published with AIP The SolarPACES 2018 conference proceedings are now published with AIP, the American Institute of Physics (www.aip.org), volume number 2126. All accepted papers are freely accessible on the AIP website and contain an...
SolarPACES 2017 Conference Proceedings Now Published with AIP
The SolarPACES 2017 conference proceedings are now published with AIP, the American Institute of Physics (www.aip.org), volume number 2033. All accepted papers are freely accessible on the AIP website and contain an ISBN number for the volume as well as individual DOI...
October 2018: SolarPACES ExCo Selects a New Logo
At the 95th Meeting of the SolarPACES Executive Committee, which was held in Casablanca in October, the committee decided on a new logo to represent what solar thermal energy has to offer in today's world. SolarPACES new logo has been designed to differentiate the...
New IEA Report: Renewable Energy for Industry
Heat represents three-quarters of industrial energy demand worldwide, and half of it is of low to medium-high temperature The IEA has just released its report IEA INSIGHTS 2017 Renewable Energy for Industry(pdf) Highlights from the IEA report with relevance for CSP:...
SolarPACES ExCo elects Robert Pitz-Paal as new Chair
Robert Pitz-Paal is elected new SolarPACES Chair Univ.-Prof. Dr-Ing. Robert Pitz-Paal was unanimously appointed as the new Chair of the SolarPACES Executive Committee for the next 2-year term at the 93rd ExCo meeting held October 1st 2017 in Calama (Chile). Pitz-Paal...
SolarPACES 2017 Conference Presentations and Papers Now Available to Registered Participants
Thank you for participating in SolarPACES 2017 SolarPACES 2017 was held successfully in Santiago de Chile. We were happy to welcome participants from 38 countries! We would like to thank everyone for attending the conference. Thanks to all authors for their high...
DOE Seeks Expert CSP R&D and Industry Insight – by Oct 6
CSP industry and researchers at SolarPACES 2017 Conference Subprogram: Soft Costs Funding Number: Request for Information: DE-FOA-0001818 The SunShot Initiative has issued a request for information (RFI) to gather insights about integrated data and analysis needs...
The ANU Solar Thermal Group has three full PhD stipends available
The ANU Solar Thermal Group presently has three full PhD stipends available, funded under the Australian Solar Thermal Research Initiative (ASTRI). Optical-structural design of heliostats Development of an advanced sodium receiver System modelling of novel CSP systems...
Feb 2018 Minisymposium in Modeling and Simulation in Solar Thermal Power Plants
Plataforma Solar de Almería is organising a new minisymposium in Modelling and Simulation (M&S) which aims to continue the research activities being developed within this scientific area. Time and place: From the 21st to the 23rd of February 2018, in Vienna, Austria.
SolarPACES 2016 Proceedings Published with AIP
The conference proceedings of SolarPACES 2016 are now published with AIP, the American Institute of Physics (www.aip.org), volume number 1850.
Webinar “Target: CSP at $50/MWh by 2025”
CORFO has teamed up with ATA Insights to offer you a webinar to analyze the opportunities and challenges of a Solar Energy Program with the goal of reaching US $50 MWh by 2025, allowing CSP to become the primary reliable and affordable technology of the Chilean energy mix.
Concentrating Solar Thermal Technologies Introductory Course STAGE-STE in October
Dates: 5 days –16-20 October 2017
Location: University of Seville, Spain
Registration deadline: 15 September 2017
System Advisor Model (SAM) webinars
NREL is organizing two new System Advisor Model (SAM) webinars in May. SAM webinars are one-hour lectures with question and answer sessions that cover various topics about SAM. All webinars are free and start at 2 pm Mountain. To register for a webinar, click its name...
Meteorological Data Sets for CSP/STE Performance Simulations
Discussion of currently used practices for: Creation of Meteorological Data Sets for CSP/STE Performance Simulations
Concentrating Solar Power Gen3 Demonstration Roadmap
A new technical report “Concentrating Solar Power Gen3 Demonstration Roadmap” was released in January 2017 by NREL in the context of the SunShot Initiative – a program launched in 2011 in the U.S. aiming at making solar thermal electricity cost-competitive with power...
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