SASEC 2014
Mark the date. Check back at the SASEC website.
SolarPACES 2013 Abstracts
SolarPACES have announced conference and paper submission information. The conference website is now up and running and abstracts can be submitted. In summary: Abstracts due 22 March 2013 Full Paper 28 June 2013. Venue: South Point Hotel
CSPToday 2013 presentations posted
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 members of STERG, you can get the presentations from CSP Today 2013 at the SharePoint site. Some highlights include an update of the 2 Abengoa plants which are under construction!
STERG Solar Challenge 2013
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SOLTRAIN 2: Solar Thermal Training Workshop – March 2013 – Western Cape
The Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and AEE - INTEC (Institute for Sustainable Technologies from Austria) set up a 3-year solar thermal energy project (Southern African Solar Thermal Training and Demonstration Initiative – SOLTRAIN) in cooperation with Southern African educational institutions, renewable energy institutions and companies in South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe. SOLTRAIN 2 [...]
SANEA Lecture: Concentrating solar power & the options for South Africa
July 17 17h30 - 19h30 Engen Petroleum Ltd Conference Centre, Engen Court Cape Town Cape Town Lecture: Prof Wikus van Niekerk, Director: Centre for Renewable & Sustainable Energy Studies and Paul Gauche, University of Stellenbosch For more information, visit this website.
Renewable Energy Training Workshop 26 – 30 August 2013
26 – 30 August 2013 Skilpadvlei Conference Centre, Stellenbosch Stellenbosch University will present a five-day training workshop in renewable and sustainable energy technologies in Stellenbosch. The aim of the five day training workshop is to enhance the capacity in the country to implement projects in this field. Each day is also registered with the [...]
Discussion forum: Is CSP a silver bullet for SA?
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 or hinder our economic and energy plans: Presenters: Saliem Fakir, Head of the Living Planet Unit of WWF and Paul Gauché, Director of STERG, Dept Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering. The lecture [...]
First Annual STERG symposuim
Sponsored by Supported by Now registered for ECSA CPD points Due to the rapid growth in numbers of postgraduate students and research outputs, we have decided to test the idea of an annual symposium where we will present the most mature and promising work in the research group. Date: Thursday 18 July, [...]