Scientific and Technological Alliance for Guaranteeing the European Excellence in Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy (STAGE-STE)
Type: International Project
Duration: from 2014 Feb 01 to 2018 Jan 31
Financed by: European Commission
Prime Contractor: CIEMAT (Other) - Madrid, Spain
Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy encompasses Solar Thermal Electricity (STE), also called CSP and other associated processes applications and technologies (such as Solar Thermochemical Fuels – STF – Solar Process Heat, Solar Assisted and Hybrid Desalination, etc…) that are called to play a major role for the achievemement of energy sustainability in our modern societies due to the following factors: on one hand, solar energy provides the highest potential of renewable energy sources to our planet [1] and, on the other hand, STE is the only renewable technology that can provide dispatchable power in the technically and economically viable way, by means of thermal storage and /or hybridization with for example biomass.
Partnerships
- UCAM University of Cadi Ayyad (University) -Morocco
- ACCIONA (Company) -Spain
- ASE (Company) -Italy
- ASNT (Other) -Spain
- CEA LIST (Other) -France
- CENER - National Renewable Energy Centre (Other) -Spain
- CIEMAT (Other) - Madrid, Spain
- CNRS - Université Paul Sabatier (University) - Toulouse, France
- Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (Other) -Italy
- CRAN (Company) -United Kingdom
- CRS4 (Other) -Italy
- CSERS - Center for Solar Energy Research and Studies (Other) -Lybia
- CSIRO The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Other) -Australia
- CTAER, The Advanced Technology Centre for Renewable Energies (Other) -Spain
- CYI, The Cyprus Institute (Other) -Cyprus
- DLR, The German Aerospace Center (Other) -Germany
- ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (Other) -Italy
- ESTELA European Solar Thermal Electricity Association (Other) -Belgium
- ETH (University) - Zurich, Switzerland
- FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Other) -Italy
- FISE, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Other) -Germany
- FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION (Other) -Spain
- FUSP Fundação de Apoio à Universidade de São Paulo (Other) -Brazil
- HITIT (Company) -Turkey
- IEECAS Institute of Earth Environment, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Other) -China
- IK4-TEKNIKER (Other) -Spain
- IMDEA (Other) -Spain
- INESC-ID (Other)
- IST-ID (University) -Portugal
- KSU, King Saud University (University) -Saudi Arabia
- LNEG - Laboratório de Energia e Geologia (Other) - Lisboa, Portugal
- Paul Scherrer Institut (Other) -Switzerland
- SCHOTT (Company) -Germany
- SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas S.A (Company) -Spain
- SUN (Company) -South Africa
- Universidade Autónoma do México (University) - Cidade do México, México
- Universidade de Évora (University) - Évora, Portugal
- Universidade do Chile (University) - Santiago do Chile, Chile
- Universitá Degli Studi Di Palermo (University) - Palermo, Italy