ACADEMIC TRAINING
LECTURE SERIES
28, 29, 30, 31 March
from 11:00 to 12:00 - Main Auditorium, bldg. 500

Toward Sustainable Energy Systems?
F. Tellez / CIEMAT, Madrid, E and D.Martinez / CIEMAT-PSA, Almeria, E

Recent work on alternative energies go in the direction of proving the feasibility of solar energy as one of the best alternatives into the future. Europe, as everybody else, has understandably vested interests in insourcing energetic demands as far as affordable. The good news is that solar energy may be its deciding straw, because it has remarkable facilities and projects probing the possibilities of this option.

Two european research centers are at the leading edge in this area: ENEA, which is leading 'Archimede', a vast solar array project in Sicily, and CIEMAT, with its Plataforma Solar de Almeria (PSA, www.psa.es) ,a major solar energy facility at the south of Spain. Both will become basic poles of the planned 'EURO-MED' electricity interconnection, intending to carry solar electricity from North-Africa into the Pan-European network.

The lectures will expose the basic technology behind the production of solar energy, and the presentation of PSA and its R&D lines.

Organiser: Miguel Angel Marquina, CERN