Welcome messages: Robert Pitz-Paal, Benedikt Kölsch, Conference Co-Chairs, DLR, Germany Mona Neubaur, Minister, Ministry of Economy, Industry, Climate Protection, Energy of North Rhine-Westphalia Meike Jipp, Divisional Board Member for Energy and Transport, DLR, Germany Alina Gilmanova, Women+ in CS, France Meet the Plenary Speakers
Welcome and Introduction to Joint Session Conference Chairs: EuroSun / SolarPACES - 50 Years of Energy Research in Germany Kerstin Deller, Director for Energy Research, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Germany - Transforming our Energy Systems - Achievements and Future Perspectives Prof. Hans-Martin Henning, Former Head of Fraunhofer ISE - Opportunities for solar thermal in the energy transition - An IEA Perspective Dr. Paolo Frankl, Head of the Renewable Energy Division at the International Energy Agency (IEA), France Meet the Plenary Speakers
Session Chair: Korbinian Kramer, EuroSun - Bärbel Epp, Managing Director of Solrico, Germany- Rafael Guedez, Associate Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden- Benjamin Zühlsdorf PhD, Innovation Director, Danish Technological Institute, Denmark Meet the Plenary Speakers
Session Chair: Esther Rojas, CIEMAT, Spain - Christina Prieto PhD, Group Leader at University of Seville, Spain & Julian Osorio PhD, Research Engineer at National Laboratory of the Rockies, USA - Dr. Wim van Helden, Senior Expert in Thermal Energy Storage and group leader at AEE INTEC, Austria & Dr. Andreas Hauer, Director of Board ZAE Bayern, Germany Meet the Plenary Speakers
Session Chair: Audrey Soum-Glaude, PROMES-CNRS Speakers: Fengli Du, National Solar Thermal Alliance, China CSP in China Fidel Carrasco González, Undersecretariat for EnergyPlanning and Transition of Mexico’s Ministry of Energy Solar Thermal Projects in Baja California Sur, Mexico Dirk Krüger, DLR Experience of operating a parabolic trough field for process heat in Belgium Joachim Krüger, ESTELA; Gregor Bern, Fraunhofer ISE CST in Central Europe: operation experience, economics, and options in Germany Meet the Plenary Speakers
Session Chair: Frank Dinter, Fraunhofer Chile Research - Center for Solar Energy Technologies Speakers: Chris Kimmett, Odqa, UK The Public Purse, The Patient Investor & The Industrial Offtaker (and why every bankability question Is a cost of heat question in disguise) Vincent Schott, IFC, Mexico Financing Solar Thermal Deployment: Risk, Bankability and Scale-Up Johannes Kretschmann, Fichtner, Germany Marina Montero Carrero, European Commission Supporting Concentrated Solar Innovation: Lessons Learned and Future EU Funding Opportunities Meet the Plenary Speakers
Session Chair: Nicole Neumann, DLR Speakers: Kent Warren, ETH, Switzerland Beyond steam methane reforming: redox materials for sustainable hydrogen from water and sunlight José Gonzalez-Aguilar, IMDEA Energy, Spain Coupling Concentrated Solar Energy to Thermochemical Cycles and Mineral Calcination: Insights from SUN-to-LIQUID II and Solar Clinkering Christian Sattler, DLR, Germany From Lab Beyond Mega Watt - Risk mitigation by large scale R&D infrastructure Graham Nathan, Univ. Adelaide, Australia Pathways to net-zero process heat for high temperature industrial processes Christoph Falter, Synhelion, Switzerland Solar fuel production at plant DAWN: state of the art, performance and outlook Meet the Plenary Speakers