HORIZON-STE Project: Policy recommendations for relaunching CSP/STE in Europe

Currently ESTELA is looking for a Project Support Officer helping the team to coordinate an EU-funded project (as coordinator), as well as engage on other projects and policy issues.  Job Category: EU Policy Research & Project Management Job Experience: min. 3 years Job Location: Brussels Contract: Limited duration...

The first MUSTEC policy brief on the Potential Obstacles to the Use of Cooperation Mechanisms for CSP in the Future is available now. Download Policy Brief #1   Introduction Renewable energy cooperation is expected to play an important role as a way to ensure an effective and affordable low-carbon...

Brussels, 6 March 2019. ESTELA welcomes the “Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans” recently sent by the Spanish government under the Governance 2030 Regulation covering the ten-year period 2021 to 2030. In Spain, the draft National “Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans” (NECPs) has been approved...

    This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 823802. Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) power is a very promising renewable energy resource. So far, the best known application is electricity generation in bulk thermodynamic cycles, but...

SMARTSPEND project aims for more and better designed public support for energy technology Research & Innovation On the 17th January, SMARTSPEND project partners met in Brussels to kick off this 3-year-project. Running until December 2021, SMARTSPEND will explore how investments in R&D in clean energy can...

Ouarzazate (Morocco), 07 November 2018 – The consortium formed by the engineering and technology company SENER and SEPCO III has completed the reliability test for the 150-MW Noor Ouarzazate III thermoelectric solar plant. It is one more step in the start-up of the facility, which...

The Department of the Environment and Energy of the Australian Government just launched a consultation process about the new generation investments in Australia (see PDF). The paper – besides describing the shortcomings of the current market situation in the country with too high prices and low...