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

Brussels, 11th March 2021. European Solar Thermal Electricity Association, ESTELA, is sorry to bear the sad news of the passing of Prof. Valeriano Ruiz, a co-founder of ESTELA in 2007 and its Vice-President until 2011 and a pioneer of solar thermal technology since the 1970s. Prof. Valeriano Ruiz,...

Brussels, 1st Feb 2020. European Solar Thermal Electricity Association, ESTELA, welcomes the long-awaited auction for renewable energy for the period of 2020-2025 in Spain, re-opening the renewable energy market in Europe and helping Spain get back on track for its 2030 targets. As expected, the total volume of 3 GW...

Around 10 M€ financed by the EU Commission to unlock the potential of integrating sCO2 in all kinds of CSP plants On the 1st of October, the SOLARSCO2OL project officially started and the kick-off meeting was organised on the 7th October 2020 in Stockholm. Boasting an...

SMARTSPEND online workshop gathered 16 high-level speakers and 200 attendees to discuss about current and future funding opportunities for clean energy 5 October 2020 - The SMARTSPEND Online Workshop ‘Financing Clean Energy Transition in the Context of EU Recovery’ took place on the 30th September 2020,...

HORIZON-STE project is launching a video campaign to raise awareness of the wide potential of the Solar Thermal Electricity (STE) with its outstanding long-term thermal storage assets. Decarbonising energy systems is a major challenge in the fight against climate change. Depending on their unique circumstances and...

???? #SMARTSPEND Project will hold its online workshop “Financing Clean Energy in the Context of EU Recovery” on 30 Sept ???? 11:00 - 15:00. As a partner of SMARTSPEND, ESTELA - European Solar Thermal Electricity Association is glad to invite you to the event. SMARTSPEND is a...

Rioglass Solar Supplied Mirrors for Chile´s First CSP Plant  Rioglass Solar has supplied theHeliostat Mirror Facets of the entire Solar Field for the Cerro Dominador #cerrodominadorr) Solar Complex in Chile. Rioglass Solar developed its unique technology for Heliostat Mirror Facets, which reduces the weight of the...

View Full Statement  in PDF  In early 2020, the proposal of the European Commission to launch a “Green Deal” set an ambitious double objective for the sake of European citizens’ wealth and health : increasing the European contribution to fight climate change while boosting the European economy. Within...

Dear Members of the European, national and local Parliaments, Dear Presidents, Dear Heads of States and Governments, Dear Commissioners, Dear Ministers, Dear leaders of Europe,   The immediate and necessary, yet unprecedented measures currently taken to fight the COVID-19 pandemic have brought Europe’s economy to a near-to-complete standstill. The signatories of...