STERG researchers, Leon Zhang and Ruben Luiten, running a Rover in one of the engine test cells. According to Leon You can see the RPM ...

SANEA (South African National Energy Association) and SANEDI (South African National Energy Development Institute) awards for 2014 have been handed out during a gala evening ...

Johan Kotzé has won SA NEDI’s Young Researcher Award in 2013 for his     contribution to Concentrated Solar Power and has also been identified by the  ...

Cebo presenting on the effect of the 2-tier tariff structure for CSP on our proposed peaking fleet.

STERG is well represented at SolarPACES again. We were involved in the pre-conference workshops, This crowd picture is our slide which coincidentally was displayed as ...

The Centre of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies are offering bursaries to Masters and PhD students in the field of renewable energy. Only South African citizens or students with permanent residence permits are eligible to apply.

STERG Leadership and special guests. The 2nd Annual STERG SolarPACES Symposium which was held at Stellenbosch University was a great success and various researchers, ...

Click here or logo to go to the website The Third Southern African Solar Energy Conference (SASEC2015) 31 July 2014 Abstract submission 5 August 2014 ...

  Announcement of Call Renewable and Sustainable Energy Masters and Doctoral Scholarships for 2015 In an effort to develop human capacity and support the transition ...

The Southern African Universities Radiometric Network (SAURAN) GSET (UKZN) and CRSES (SU) have announced a test* launch of the SAURAN website. The following link and ...

Announcing the TIA Helio100 technology development project Commencing 1 April 2014 more information to come...

CRSES Forum: Solar Tower Technology Trends and Current R&D Activities at the DLR, Germany Click here for the invitation Presented by Dr R Buck, Head of Point ...

This is the current date for the second quarterly meeting. (It is listed in the calendar to the right)   Draft agenda: 11:00 - 12:00: ...

This is the current date for the second quarterly meeting. (It is listed in the calendar to the right)   Draft agenda: 11:00 - 12:00: ...

  Title: “CSP is the best technology for South Africa for future electricity production. It is already cheaper than new coal fired power stations, if ...

James and Willem seen from another point of view!

  Click the link below to read the article published in Die Burger “Sonkrag maak toe die wors gaar!”

 All students are encouraged to use and share information on the STERG SharePoint.

Click the above logo to read the article called "Doing Economic Development Differently"

Deadline for abstracts 14 February (note this does not seem to be peer review) Conference info City: San Francisco Dates: 6 - 10 July 2014 ...

  If you would like to attend CSP Today Cape Town, we have 10 discount passes worth 200 Euro each. Contact us for a pass-code. ...

  To read more about ISE and other modules, please click here.  

Solar process heat for production and advanced applications - Task 49 / Task IV Stellenbosch University, South Africa Date: January 22 - 24, 2014 Venue: ...

A provisional announcement to the annual STERG symposium. Please bookmark the date. Open to all members of the university, colleagues at other universities and institutions ...

To: All prospective postgraduate student waiting to hear about the recently announced special 2014 scholarship program for the solar thermal spoke. Instructions to prospective students: ...

Warrick Pierce's research has been published and now recognized as a key scientific article by Renewable Energy Global Innovations. This link to the specific page. ...

As seen in Die Burger this week. Here is a copy of the page.

GPS coordinates for Google: -28.537142,21.077761  

Very limited opportunity for prospective 2014 Master/PhDs. Please come back to this site. Details to come soon. A list of applicable topics here. SU_STE_Spoke_Topics 2014

    A lecture by Markus Balz, Managing Director, sbp sonne gmbh Location: Pulp-Cinema, Neelsie, Stellenbosch University (Location) Date: 14 November 2013 Time: 11h00 – ...

  Johan Kotze, STERG PhD candidate will be presenting this lecture. SANEDI recently recognised his efforts and Johan was awarded with the RECORD RERE Young ...

  See CSP Today South Africa 2014 website. STERG and associates will be presenting at the event.  

[HTML2] A shorter and different ad can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k4U5DTGagA A website with interactive video of Gemasolar is here: http://sprinter-pioneer.com/en-gb/content.html Note: This posting is in no ...

SolarPACES 2014 20th SolarPACES Conference, 16. - 19. September 2014, Beijing, China Where: Beijing, China When:16. - 19. September, 2014 Important Dates: Abstract due 31 ...

Ivanpah unit 2 being admired by STERG members

      Herewith an invitation to a CRSES forum: Solar thermal power plants and their advantages: presented by Prof Frank Dinter, Eskom Chair in Concentrating Solar ...

Most of team Stellenbosch are here. Our presence is being felt and we were informed by the organizers that we might be the 4th biggest ...

  Our theme at SolarPACES2013 Las Vegas is based on the above phrases and we are using this at an opportunity to announce our new ...

2014 Applications now open! Click on the above image to go to the site.

This is an early announcement. Please follow up with CRSES or come an talk to someone in STERG. The bursaries are competitive, for South Africans ...

STERG congratulates Kenny Allen for his best presenter award at the National EPC conference hosted by NRF and iThemba labs. The below picture is Kenny next ...

SANEA Energy Awards 2013 STERG congratulates Johan Kotzé for winning the SANEDI / RECORD RERE Young Researcher Award 2013. Johan Kotze is a final year PhD student. ...

See below link for an Engineering News article on the SANEA lecture presented by Prof. Wikus van Niekerk (CRSES) and Mr. Paul Gauche (STERG) A ...

  [Click here or on the image to go direct to the NRF call] Closing date: 15 August 2013 Process: You are responsible for the ...

We congratulate Sebastian Bode as one of the 200 Young South Africans for 2013! Click here or below photo to read more.

  Concentrating Solar Power By Numbers An opinion article written by Paul Gauché (STERG), Riaan Meyer (GeoSun) & Alan Brent (CRSES).

  Venue: iThemba Labs, Cape Town For more information click on the below link: ICTP - International Centre for Theoretical Physics

CRSES is offering 3 postdoc positions. Please see this link for more details and closing date.

  This is a first call for the first NRF annual conference in renewable and nuclear energy. If you are an NRF funded student, you ...

      Concentrating solar power as a key component of the renewable electricity system A Grantham seminar by Paul Gauché, Senior Researcher and Coordinator, ...

  Mark the date. Check back at the SASEC website.

  SolarPACES have announced conference and paper submission information. The conference website is now up and running and abstracts can be submitted. In summary: Abstracts ...

Riaan Meyer, CSP & Solar Resource Assessment, CSP Today South Africa, 2013 Paul Gauche, Modelling CSP Plant Scenarios in South Africa, CSP Today South Africa, 2013 To all ...

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  The Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and AEE - INTEC (Institute for Sustainable Technologies from Austria) set up a 3-year solar thermal energy project (Southern ...

  July 17 17h30 - 19h30 Engen Petroleum Ltd Conference Centre, Engen Court Cape Town Cape Town Lecture: Prof Wikus van Niekerk, Director: Centre for ...

  26 – 30 August 2013 Skilpadvlei Conference Centre, Stellenbosch Stellenbosch University will present a five-day training workshop in renewable and sustainable energy technologies in ...

  Herewith an invitation to our next  Forum: Is CSP a silver bullet for South Africa? A public debate on how concentrating solar power might benefit ...

    Sponsored by Supported by Now registered for ECSA CPD points Due to the rapid growth in numbers of postgraduate students and research outputs, ...

STERG Quarterly meeting agenda – 5 December 2013, 10h00 to 12h00, M306 Research (40-60min) SASEC dry run opportunity a.)     A review of aiming strategies for ...

This is the current date for the second quarterly meeting. (It is listed in the calendar to the right)   Draft agenda: 11:00 - 12:00: ...

The RECORD Launch See website. Mr Sebastian-James Bode (University of Stellenbosch) in the category of most promising “blue sky” research project, for his work in ...

The next step in the STERG technology R&D roadmap will be happening as Sasol sent the official award notification last week. This facility which we ...

An article at the Engineering News about the realities of CSP for SA. To create CSP technology here or not. Fakir is the head of ...

Riaan Meyer is CEO and founder of GeoSun, a spin-off of the efforts at Stellenbosch University. GeoSun supplies the best satellite derived solar data around and installs solar ...

The Heat is On - Research into Alternative Heat Transfer Fluids An article by Jenny Muirhead and Andrew Williams. Click on the link above or the ...

Heliostat attenuation measurement method This PhD requires the a heliostat attenuation measurement system is developed, tested and validated. The project will be funded by Sasol ...

For the 2nd year running, STERG will have speakers at this event. More information to come. http://www.csptoday.com/southafrica/index.php

This is an interesting opportunity to attend a lecture by a person who lead the NDP energy component. When our event calendar works again, we ...

The 2 big M&M research groups having a social function. Dunno who won officially but I think we did.

Close-up of calibrating 6 small heliostats. Target is 2m x 2m at a height of 9m. Heliostats are about 45m away.   ...

The International Solar  Energy Society (ISES) and the Mexican Solar Energy Association (ANES) have the  honor of hosting the Solar World Congress 2013 which is ...

The DST/NRF renewable and sustainable energy scholarships for Masters and PhD is now open. The program document lists all available topics. This is the biggest ...

We are looking for SU students (or staff?) that have a bit of time and have skills at developing web sites/pages. See our jobs page ...

For more info see http://www.crses.sun.ac.za/studies-short-courses.php

  19th SolarPACES Conference 17 - 20 September 2013 Las Vegas, USA Please visit the conference website for more details.

STERG was well represented at SolarPACES 2012 in Marrakesh, Morocco. We had a delegation of 9  people from SU, UKZN and CSIR. We delivered 6 papers ...

STERG Heliostat Developments: Karel Malan, a STERG Master's student,  has developed useful software which calibrates a heliostat's position. To view the accelerated calibration, click on ...

The Gemasolar plant situated in Seville, Spain, is the first CSP plant in the world to sustainably operate  for 24 hours with a combined central receiver and molten ...

Sebastian Bode, a second year MSc student and member of the Solar Thermal Energy Research Group (STERG) at Stellenbosch University is also a recent winner ...

The NRF plans to announce a new program called Renewable and Sustainable Energy Scholarships. These scholarships will be associated with the various hubs, spokes and chairs ...

A two year scholarship is available towards a Masters degree in renewable energy commencing in 2013 for South African citizens or permanent residents. Please go to the ...

A Value proposition of CSP for South Africa, an emerging market, is proposed by Paul Gauché of STERG and recognised by CSP Today in their article ...

Solar could supply SA energy - expert http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Solar-could-supply-SA-energy-expert-20120723

Stellenbosch University has been identified as the Eskom Specialisation Centre in the Renewable Energy Technology in the Eskom Power Plant Engineering Institute. As part of ...

Novatec Solar made contact with STERG about filling a position - Project Engineer Manufacturing relating to the construction of Novatec LFR plants in SA.

SolarPACES 2012 conference which is to take place from September 11 – 14, 2012 in Marrakech, Morocco. SolarPACES 2012 is the foremost symposium for the ...

 SASEC Third Announcement and Registration Information The 1st Southern African Solar Energy Conference (SASEC 2012) will be held from the 21 st to the 23rd  of ...

1 week module for degree and exec students. More information Degree students Exec students

The event, in its first edition, will take place on the 7th and 8th of February at the Hilton Sandton Hotel, attracting over 400 attendees. ...

Be part of the first national conference in solar energy. Submit your abstracts at www.sasec.org.za by 21 November.  

Staff and students are cordially invited to attend the Flownex Thermal-Fluid Systems Modelling course from 5 to 7 December 2011. There is a registration fee of ...

The European Thermal-Sciences Conference is an international conference organized by the EUROTHERM committee  (present President A. Van Steenhoven). This conference takes place in Europe every 4 ...

Solar Thermal Energy Systems 814 This module focuses on concentrating solar power (CSP) but also covers solar water heating (SWH) and other solar thermal applications. ...

STERG is represented by 4 papers and 6 delegates. Please see our conference proceedings list for the topics represented.

  The 1st Southern African Solar Energy Conference (SASEC 2012) will be held from the 21st to the 23rd of May 2012 at the Protea Hotel ...

STERG students visit to the CSIR Four of the MScEng students from the Solar Thermal Energy Research Group (STERG) did four weeks of practical work ...

Bursaries Bursaries are available to post-graduate South African students studying on a full-time basis in Renewable Energy. These bursaries would be : R80 000 per ...

Invitation to Apply for the 2012 Award The DBREV Trustees are pleased to offer a scholarship towards a two year post graduate degree in the ...

First thermosolar power plant in the world to supply uninterrupted power for an entire day. This is done using a central receiver plant with thermal ...

Solar thermal and PV are both growing but in different ways.   solar thermal Job Trends Solar Thermal jobs

The Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at the University of Stellenbosch is currently involved in the evaluation and development of different solar thermal power ...

Thermal energy storage is a primary research area in the solar thermal energy research group (STERG). One thermal storage concept uses particular types of rock ...

To actively promote the development of solar technology. That was the aim set by members of the Working Group for Environmental Technology (Arbeitskreis für Umwelttechnologie) ...

Heavyweights to use solar power http://www.capetimes.co.za/heavyweights-to-use-solar-power-1.1050016

Sasol is looking for a principle engineer in CSP research. See attachment for full details. Deadline is 3 March 2011! Principal Mechanical Engineer Sasol

. The 15th IAHR international conference on cooling tower and air-cooled heat exchanger will be held from 23rd – 26th October 2011 in Beijing, China. ...

. Solar World Africa – solar investment, innovation and development in Africa Solar World Africa 2011; the event is designed to give stakeholders across the ...

. If you subscribe to SAM information through the web site: https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/sam/, you will receive an invitation to the webinar. February 7, noon to 3 pm Mountain: ...

Geneva, 20 January 2011 (WMO) - The year 2010 ranked as the warmest year on record, together with 2005 and 1998, according to the World ...

. Call for Papers – Deadline for Submission of Abstracts:  30 April 2011 Click here to Submit your Abstract online Abstracts may be submitted online ...

The Department of Environmental Affairs has led the process of formulating an effective and comprehensive national response to climate change in the form of the Green Paper ...

Sasol is offering postgraduate bursaries for research in CSP (amongst many other research areas) for 2012. Here is more information about the bursaries. Sasol Postgraduate ...

The 15th IAHR international conference on cooling tower and air-cooled heat exchanger will be held from 23rd – 26th October 2011 in Beijing, China. You ...

The ISES Solar World Congress 2011 is the world’s largest scientific congress in the field of solar energy and buildings. It will take place from ...

Department of Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering RESEARCH LECTURE Mr P Gauché  (Stellenbosch University) "On Prerequisites to Large Scale Rollout of CSP in Southern Africa: Models, ...

A short course in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) will be held from 6-10 December 2010* at the Centre for Geographical Analysis. This introductory course is ...

The National Solar Conference is the longest-running educational event for solar energy professionals in the U.S. Now in its 40th year, the SOLAR 2011 program ...

. Where: Granada, Spain When: 20. - 23. September, 2011 Venue: Granada Congress Centre (http://www.pcgr.org) Visit conference web site for details.

CSIRO is building the world’s largest solar tower Brayton Cycle at the National Solar Energy Centre. For more information please link here and here.

Come and listen to Pancho Ndebele talk about the utilisation of South Africa’s solar resources for the generation of sustainable energy, and the rolling out ...

If you are interested in solar systems: This Wednesday 3rd November at 17h00 Central European Time we'll have Chris Gueymard, worldwide recognized expert in the field of ...

Poster Open Day LRI

Read more about this at http://ivanpahsolar.com/ Located on 3,600 acres of U.S. BLM managed land in southeastern California, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) ...

For Post-grad and Exec students. Pos-grads need to do work before and after the block week. Execs attend just this week. Contact CRSES (http://www.sun.ac.za/crses) to ...

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The Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies (CRSES) and the Solar Thermal Energy Research Group (STERG) will be at the conference and you can find us at ...

Welcome to the new STERG site. Please provide feedback by completing the [Contact] form. Solar Thermal Energy is entering a new phase in Southern Africa ...