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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
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SolarPACES Members
SolarPACES now has 17 members: Australia, Austria, China, The European Commission, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, the Republic of Korea, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America.
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 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 NREL: Failure Analysis for Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage Tanks for In-Service CSP Plants CSTA: Blue Book of China's Concentrating Solar Power Industry 2023 (PDF) India: Energy and Resources Institute:...
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...
About the SolarPACES TCP with the IEA
How IEA TCPs Work SolarPACES.org is organised under the auspices of the International Energy Agency (IEA) but is functionally and legally autonomous. Views, findings and publications of SolarPACES do not necessarily represent the views or policies of the IEA...
20th SolarPACES Conference, 16. – 19. September 2014, Beijing, China
Overview Data SolarPACES 2014 20th SolarPACES Conference, 16. - 19. September 2014, Beijing, China Where: Beijing, China When:16. - 19. September, 2014 Conference website: http://www.solarpaces2014.solarpaces.org
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- CSP desalination siting tool demonstrated in Australia
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