Women+ in Concentrated Solar, with the valuable support and organization by ATA Insights, is happy to announce their next webinar on “The untapped potential of small scale CSP“, which will be held online on January 16, 2024 @ 1 pm CET (duration: 1h).

While CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) technology is widely recognized for large-scale deployment, its potential for small-scale applications is relatively unknown. As Women+ in Concentrated Solar aims to promote underrepresented genders in the CSP sector, we also want to highlight CSP solutions for small-scale deployment that would enable communities and smaller stakeholders to access clean power. Therefore, we decided to organize a webinar focused on small-scale CSP applications.

Speakers

Sabrina Hasni

Electrification Solutions Project lead at Shell, representative of Women+ in Concentrated Solar leadership team

Sabrina will introduce the need and solutions available on small scale CSP to provide affordable and sustainable energy solutions for industrial process heat and rural on/off-grid applications. For regions with power outages or limited access to electricity, these solutions can help address energy security and reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

Ye Wang

Research fellow at ANU (Australian National University)

She will present insights from her research paper on small-scale concentrated solar power systems, touching on system-level modelling and techno-economic optimization, while also providing an overview of research progress in this area.

Natalie Lorenz Anderson

Vice President Operations, 247Solar Inc.

Natalie will discuss the modular CSP technology developed by 247Solar Inc., highlighting thermal heat storage and its initial deployment in India in 2024, focusing on key benefits, challenges, and insights gained from the deployment.

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Featured photo credits: 247 Solar

HelioCon (Heliostat Consortium for Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power) regularly proposes seminar series as part of the Resources, Training, and Education topic area, led by Dr. Rebecca Mitchell (NREL). Some of these webinars feature women experts.

On November 15th at 11am-12pm MST (7-8 pm CET), Ms. Kyla Hampton and Ms. Courtney Jackson, Engineering Students at Clark Atlanta University and Northeastern University, will give a talk about “LSAMP Summer Experience: A Cleaning Mirror Assessment with Reflectance”. More information here.

On October 18th, Dr. Adriana Zurita, Senior Researcher and Project Manager at Tewer Engineering, conjointly with Marco Carrascosa, CEO, gave a seminar on “Calibration and Characterization Systems in Solar Concentration Plants: Field Expertise, Conclusions, and Lessons Learned“. Watch the replay here.

You can also check out past webinars, for instance the webinar on “Intern Projects in Heliostat Technologies at NREL, SNL” featuring Miriam Caron (NREL) and Madeline Hwang (SNL).

We also recommend the most essential webinar on “Mitigating Unconscious Bias in Work Teams” by Anelisa Simons, Manager of Inclusion, Diversity, Equal Employment, Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Sandia National Labs: video, flyer. Or how to counteract unconscious bias with conscious inclusion.

With the support and collaboration of SolarPACES and the 2023 conference organizing committee, Women+ in Concentrated Solar will offer events this year in Sydney.

• Our representatives will briefly present our group and its actions during the introductory plenary session, don’t miss it!
• All throughout the conference, you will find more information at our Women+ in Concentrated Solar dedicated desk, including our posters and brochures, QR code to visit our website and register as a member in our expert database. During breaks, you may also encounter our representatives there, as well as other attendees, so feel free to come around! You can also make an appointment via the website contact form or the conference Whova space, to be sure to meet with our representatives during breaks.
• A Women+ in Concentrated Solar “Happy Hour” will be held on Thursday, October 12, from 6:30 to 7:30 PM for attendees of underrepresented gender identities. This will be an opportunity for us to network in a more informal way, get to know one another, create professional connections, exchange ideas and points of views, etc. After the event, you can go to the Young Professionnal dinner or stay with us a bit longer!

We hope to see you there!

Our actions this year also include advocating for the participation of more underrepresented gender identities as topic track chairs and session chairs, and gathering and analyzing gender statistics on conference participants. Thanks to this, this year for the first time, half of topic track chairs are women!

Women+ in Concentrated Solar was represented by Natalie Hanrieder at the Women Energize Women conference in Munich on 15 June 2023!

Gender equality in the energy sector is imperative to implement the whole potential of renewable energy and to foster a just energy transition, in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Women Energize Women conference invites participants from across the globe to experience discussion rounds, workshops and other innovative formats on energy and gender topics with exclusively female speakers. The conference allows for women* and allies of a social just energy transition to connect with each other, gain more visibility on international fora and shape the discussion on the energy transition themselves.

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2023 China International CSP Conference & CSPPlaza 10th Annual Conference (CPC2023) is the largest, highest level, and the most professional annual event in China solar thermal power industry. It’s cosponsored by China solar thermal power authority media platform CSPPLAZA and the leading enterprise Cosin Solar Technology Co., Ltd. It was held on June 12 and 13, 2023, in New Century Grand Hotel, Hangzhou. More than 60 distinguished guests from the global CSP industry presented a mental feast focusing on the theme of “New Era · New Opportunity · New Growth” for the CSP industry in the two-day session.

Women+ in Concentrated Solar was present at this event to attract more CSP professionals from Asia and give them more international visibility!

Learn more about this event:

https://en.cspplaza.com/the-sponsor-lineup-continues-to-expand!-the-10th-china-international-csp-conference-has-been-sponsored-and-supported-by-nearly-50-units

Did you know that many women are working in Thermal Energy Storage (TES)? Now you have an opportunity to learn about the work of five international specialists in TES sector.

Women+ in Concentrated Solar, in partnership with ATA Insights, organized their first webinar on May 25^th,  2023, on the topic of thermal energy storage technologies. In this webinar, five members of W+CS explained the current market situation and new R&D technologies in their countries: Spain, China and Morocco. A big thanks to our five amazing speakers who taught us a lot about innovative solutions in the thermal energy storage sector!

• Esther Rojas: Senior Researcher from Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA) in CIEMAT, Spain
• Mª Del Rocío Bayon: Researcher and Coordinator of the Thermal Storage Unit from Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA) in CIEMAT, Spain
• Teresa Gong: Deputy Director of Global Business Development of Cosin Solar, China
• Yan Wang: Associate Professor at the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Khadija Elalami: Postdoctoral fellow at Green Energy Park, Morocco
• Cristina Galán: Content & Event Manager at ATA Insights [Moderator]

We want to thank ATA Insights for their amazing work, and everyone who attended: more than 90 people joined the webinar! It was a real success to bring so many people together, interested in thermal storage, and give visibility to women speakers in the field.

If you couldn’t attend our webinar, you can watch the replay on YouTube.

You can also register in our database to be one of our next speakers!

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Women+ in Concentrated Solar, with the valuable support and organization by ATA Insights, is happy to announce their first webinar on “How thermal energy storage makes variable renewables dispatchable”, which will be held online on May 25, 2023 @ 1 pm CEST.

Energy storage is the key to secure resilience, reliability and dispatchability in the grid even when the energy mix is based on variable renewables. However, while there is a lot of awareness about batteries, thermal storage is still a largely unknown treasure to be distpachable – coming at third or less of the cost.  In this webinar 5 thermal energy storage talk about the experience with thermal storage in Spain, China and Morocco and the new R&D technology that will revolutionize storing energy with longer durations, better round trip efficiencies and more competitive costs.  

Join this webinar and…

• Hear about state-of-the-art of thermal energy storage developments in China, Spain and Morocco and understand the impact it has in renewable energy industry growth
• Analyze the main promising innovation efforts under development worldwide and when they will be deployed in commercial projects
• Study thermal storage technology close up to understand how large commercial capacity systems figures

Speakers

• Esther Rojas: Senior Scientist from Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA) in CIEMAT
• Mª Del Rocío Bayon: Researcher and Coordinator of the Thermal Storage Unit from Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA) in CIEMAT
• Teresa Gong: Deputy Director of Global Business Development of Cosin Solar
• Yan Wang: associate professor of Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Khadija Elalami: postdoc at Green Energy Park
• Cristina Galán: Content & Event Manager at ATA Insights [Moderator]

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To celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day, Women+ in Concentrated Solar network is organizing the first global online networking events. We will meet online with concentrated solar experts from all over the world joining us.

Everyone is welcome!

• Learn about Women+ in Concentrated Solar and upcoming opportunities
• Connect and network with members of the Concentrated Solar community around the globe

Two sessions are proposed, depending on your region. Registration is free but required. Both events will be held on Zoom. Once registered, you will receive a connection link.

You can also become a member of our network. All gender identities are welcome!