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!
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.
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]
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!
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.
