End of Term Report 2016 Introduction and Overview: The SolarPACES TCP focusses on concentrating solar thermal technologies, following the vision to achieve a significant contribution of these technologies to the delivery of clean, sustainable energy worldwide....
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SolarPACES Tasks
Tasks Annexes of the IEA SolarPACES Technology Collaborative Programme SolarPACES is an IEA Technology Collaborative Programme. As such, it has a structure similar to the more than 60 programs currently operating through the IEA. Each of them reflect the need to...
CSP Technologies

China
SolarPACES Member Country: ExCo Representative, Vice-Chair Zhifeng Wang Head of Solar Thermal Energy and Photovoltaic Systems Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science zhifeng(at)vip.sina.com ExCo Alternate Sun Honghang Vice Director Divison of...

Austria
SolarPACES Member Country: ExCo Representative Theodor Zillner Deputy Head of Department BMVIT Theodor.Zillner(at)bmvit.gv.at ExCo Alternate Markus Haider TU Wien Markus.Haider(at)tuwien.ac.at
Membership By Country
SolarPACES Members
SolarPACES has 16 members (2024): Australia, Austria, China, The European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Namibia, the Republic of Korea, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, United States of America, KTH University (Sponsor...
SolarPACES History
SolarPACES played a formative role in CSP research from the very earliest days beginning in 1977, and the role has widened as the market for dispatchable solar has become more defined to today’s commercial deployment at full-scale. International Energy Agency (IEA)...
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SolarPACES Vision and Mission SolarPACES is the leading international network of researchers into thermal solar for dispatchable power and solar chemistry technologies. The SolarPACES vision is that these concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies contribute...
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NOOR I Tower CSP project, Ourazazate, Morocco ©Xinhua News Agency/SEPCO IIINational Solar Test Facility, New Mexico/USA. Credit:Sandia National Laboratories ©US DOEMiraah, solar steam production at Amal oil field, Muscat/Oman ©GlassPointACWA Power thermal energy...
Thermal Energy Storage (prior) Working Group
General Coordination: Esther Rojas, CIEMAT, Spain If you are willing to participate in any of the following Activity Lines, do not hesitate to get in contact with the corresponding coordinator of the activity or with Esther Rojas (general coordinator) Objective...
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Affiliated SolarPACES CSP Research Facilities
Concentrated solar thermal energy research is also carried out in engineering departments of universities in these nations, overseen by these solar thermal energy research institutes in each SolarPACES member nation: Chinese Academy of Sciences - China CSIRO -...
Publications and Reports
Reports on Renewable Energy, CSP Technology and Strategy CSIRO and ITP: Australian Industrial Process Heat Market (PDF) CSTA: China Solar Thermal Alliance (CSTA) China's CSP blue book 2024 (PDF) IRENA: Renewable Energy 2024 (link) NREL: Failure Analysis for Molten...
Research Plan to 2021
Overview: SolarPACES will continue its current activity to support the further cost decrease of concentrating solar technologies by the development of internationally recognized standards for components, systems and processes. Foster appreciation for the value of...
All Research Tasks – Chart Overview
The Executive Committee (ExCo) is responsible for control and supervision of the SolarPACES Program as a whole. Individual members of the Executive Committee represent their national Contracting Party. The SolarPACES Secretariat (ExSec) is responsible for...
Conferences / Awards
Join us at the next annual SolarPACES Conference in Santiago de Chile, September 26th to 29th 22nd SolarPACES Conference, 11. - 14. October 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAE More info for SolarPACES 2016 21st SolarPACES Conference, 13. - 16. October 2015, Cape Town, South...
IEA End of Term Report – 2021
Introduction and Overview: SolarPACES will continue its current activity to support the further cost decrease of concentrating solar technologies by the development of internationally recognized standards for components, systems and processes. Foster appreciation for...
22nd SolarPACES Conference, 11 – 14 October 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Overview Data SolarPACES 2016 22nd SolarPACES Conference, 11 - 14 October 2016, Abu Dhabi, UAE Where: Jumeirah at Etihad Towers Conference website: http://www.solarpaces-conference.org/ Technical tour: Visit to the 100 MW CSP plant Shams 1 and the Masdar Institute...
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