Thanks to you, Women+ in CS first webinar was a success!

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 25th,  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 Energize Women conference – 15 June 2023

Women+ in Concentrated Solar will be 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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Women+ in CS webinar: “How thermal energy storage makes variable renewables dispatchable”

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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Virtual Network & Connect Events – March 2023 – Thank you!

To celebrate International Women’s Day, Women+ in Concentrated Solar organized the first global online networking events, with two time slots depending on your region. We met online with concentrated solar experts from all over the world.

At a glance

Rebecca Mitchell works at NREL on algorithms to determine error of heliostats and she is also creating a database on CSP education related materials. During the first networking event on March 9, 2023, she met with many CSP experts, who could provide her materials for her database. Also, Dr. Natalie Hanrieder from DLR works with meteorological data and kindly offered to share the collected data on DNI with other participants who do the simulation and modeling. A common ground was also generally acknowledged concerning the challenges of promoting concentrated solar thermal technologies in our respective countries.

These are just a few examples of successful matchmaking and connections during these two networking events, where more than 30 members of the concentrated solar community, from all around the world (Europe, Americas, Africa and Asia), got to know one another and had a chance to talk about their work and interests. These networking events were a great opportunity to establish international collaborations, learn more about the current work of colleagues and find useful connections.

We also discussed about your interests in possible future actions of our Women+ in Concentrated solar group. Thank you, we’ll take them under consideration, we are already working on it! If you want to tell us more or help us, you can answer our survey.

Thank you!

Thank you everyone who joined these two Networking Events of Women+ in Concentrated Solar! We were very pleased to meet all of you and have some time to chat about our work and possible connections. It was amazing and inspiring to hear all your stories. This is already helping us to create a women and underrepresented genders network to connect and support one another!

We are already planning our next event, so remember to follow us on social media and subscribe to our newsletter to not miss anything. See you soon!

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

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Virtual Network & Connect Events – March 2023

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.

 

NETWORK & CONNECT EVENT #1

Americas, Africa & Europe

Thursday, 9th March 2023 @ 5 pm CET
(convert to your time zone)

Registration closed

 

 

NETWORK & CONNECT EVENT #2

Asia, Oceania, Africa & Europe

Wednesday, 15th March 2023 @ 12 pm CET
(convert to your time zone)

Registration closed

 

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