SolarPACES Announcements

The 2025 Technology Innovation Award was jointly presented to ODQA, a University of Oxford spin-off, together with KTH Royal Institute of Technology, for their pioneering work advancing high-temperature air-based industrial heat. ODQA’s rotary receiver generates air...

On the closing day of SolarPACES 2025 in Almeria, NREL’s Mark Mehos and Craig Turchi were jointly recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award for transformative leadership in advancing the commercialization of concentrating solar power. Mehos, now Principal...

On the final day of the SolarPACES Conference 2025, Cosin Solar received the inaugural SolarPACES Implementation Award for the 50 MW Delingha Concentrated Solar Power plant, recognizing its long term stable operation of concentrated solar technologies. Since beginning...

Dear Colleagues, As the Conference Chair, it is my great pleasure to invite you to the 31st SolarPACES International Conference, which will be held in Almería, Spain, from September 23–26, 2025. Achieving full decarbonization of the energy sector, where two thirds of...

On behalf of the many international contributors to the 950 MW Phase IV CSP/PV project at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, DEWA sustainable energy manager Hamid Al Kindi accepted the award presented by SolarPACES Chair Gilles Flamant On the closing day...

The “Blue Book” compiled annually by the China Solar Thermal Alliance (CSTA) provides valuable supporting data on the current status of China's concentrating solar power (CSP) industry. Now the 2024 edition of China’s very detailed Blue Book updates the data of...

Manuel Romero and Aldo Steinfeld receive the SolarPACES Lifetime Achievement Award from Robert Pitz-Paal On the closing day of the SolarPACES 2024 conference in Rome, Aldo Steinfeld and Manuel Romero were jointly awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition...

SolarPACES (Concentrating Solar Power, Thermal, and Chemical Energy Systems) is delighted to announce the SolarPACES 2025 Conference from September 23-26, 2025, in Almería, Spain. SolarPACES is the premier international network advancing research, development, and...

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SolarPACES 2024 - Updates on Travel, Technical Tours and Sponsorship Options­ ­ ­ ­ ­The Program Committee is currently working on the detailed program for the 30th edition of the SolarPACES conference. We are convinced that the conference will feature many highly...

We are excited to announce that registration is now open for SolarPACES 2024! Join us October 8-11, 2024 for the 30th SolarPACES Conference in the enchanting city of Rome, Italy, where history and modernity converge to provide the perfect backdrop for the advancement...

With the 30th edition of the SolarPACES Conference approaching, we would like to express our gratitude to all participants for sharing their cutting-edge research with the global CSP community! The submission of over 500 abstracts promises an exceptional conference in...

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In the last Task III meeting in Sydney, four topics were identified to have enough interest within the audience to launch a specific activity under the SolarPACES task III umbrella. If your country is a SolarPACES country and you are willing to participate, please,...

With India's biggest utility NTPC about to launch a major CSP tender, this is a not-to-be missed conference! Time and Date: Feb 12-13, 2024 10:00 AM - 8:30 PM (India time: find yours here) Join Zoom Meeting https://lnkd.in/gS7fGhXw Meeting ID: 810 4317 8841 Passcode:...

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...