We warmly invite you to register for EuroSun 2022 in Kassel! Attendees can benefit from a wide range of discounts such as student discounts, ISES and IEA SHC discounts, a special discount for authors from outside Europe and/or low-income countries and a discount for presenting authors.

At EuroSun 2022, 5 highly engaging plenary sessions will cover some of the most current and important topics on renewable energy, climate change, international cooperation and more. More information on the speakers and their presentations will be made available online over the coming weeks.

On 16 August 2022 at 1PM GMT/UTC ISES is happy to welcome speakers of the IEA PVPS Task 16 presenting on the topic of Firm PV Power.

In this webinar, the speakers investigate whether photovoltaics (PV) can effectively and economically contribute to a massively renewable energy (RE) power generation future for different regions. The speakers determine the optimum PV/battery configurations that can meet the country’s electrical demand firmly 24x365 at the least possible cost. The result of the modelling is the optimum between overbuilding and curtailment of PV. The analyses show that firm PV power is an enabler of the energy transition and can ease the energy trilemma – regarding security of supply, sustainability, and affordability. The speakers will present results for Switzerland, California and different TSO zones in the USA.

The webinar will welcome the following presenters:

- Richard Perez, SUNY (USA)

- Jan Remund, Meteotest (Switzerland)

- Marc Perez, Cleanpower Res., (USA)

- Patricia Hidalgo-Gonzalez, UC San Diego (USA)

 

The webinar will be moderated by ISES Immediate President Dave Renné.

The duration of the webinar is 90 minutes and the webinar will include a Q/A session for the audience to ask their questions to the presenters. The recording of the webinar as well as the presentations given will be made available to ISES Members after the webinar.

The aviation sector, which strongly relies on fossil-derived kerosene, is responsible for vast amounts of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. To avoid these emissions, solar energy can be leveraged to efficiently produce drop-in fuels (e.g. synthetic kerosene). Solar-made synthetic kerosene can replace fossil-derived kerosene and further make use of the existing global jet fuel infrastructures for its storage, distribution, and end-use in jet engines.

For the first time, the thermochemical production of solar kerosene from water and CO2 is demonstrated in a fully-integrated solar tower fuel plant. This work, realized within the framework of the EU Horizon 2020 project SUN-to-LIQUID, advances the technological readiness level of solar fuels production by demonstrating the technical feasibility of the entire sun-to-liquid fuel process chain. The results are reported in a recent article in JOULE.

The performance of the solar reactor − the cornerstone technology – is evaluated based on five primary metrics, namely: reaction selectivity, syngas quality, fuel purity, energy efficiency, and material stability. This pioneer technological demonstration, performed at a pilot scale relevant to industrial implementation, represents a critical milestone on the path towards the production of sustainable aviation fuels.