SolarPACES 2025

23 September 2025 - 26 September 2025
Almería, ES
Conexio-PSE

This year’s SolarPACES conference is already the 31st edition of the world’s leading event on concentrated solar power and thermal and chemical energy systems.

ASTERIx-CAESar’s partners will participate with the following contributions:

Presentations

  • Evaluation of a Hybrid CAES-Reverse Osmosis Plant Driven by Concentrated Solar Power (CIEMAT-PSA, Apria Systems, University of Seville)
    • Wednesday 24 September 2025, session Hybrid Systems 1 (16h30 – 18h10)
    • For the link to the paper/session description, visit here

  • The ASTERIx-CAESar Demonstration Prototype; Specifications and Design of a Small-scale Hybrid CAES-CSP-Desalination Plant (CENER, CIEMAT-PSA, BlueBox Energy, Apria Systems)
    • Thursday 25 September 2025, session Emerging and Disruptive Concepts (14h00 – 16h00)
    • For the link to the paper/session description, visit here

  • Techno-Economic Assessment of High-Temperature Air-based CSP Integrated with Compressed Air Energy Storage – CAES (CENER, DOOSAN Skoda Power, University of Seville, Roma Tre, CIEMAT – PSA)
    • Thursday 25 September 2025, session Emerging and Disruptive Concepts (14h00 – 16h00)
    • For the link to the paper/session description, visit here

  • Concentrated Solar Flux Measurements Based on Optical Fibers and Photodiodes
    • Thursday 25 September 2025, session Measurement Systems, Devices, and Procedures 3 (14h00 – 15h40)
    • For the link to the paper/session description, visit here

Posters

  • CFD Analysis of an Open Volumetric Air Receiver and Comparison with 10 kWth Solar Tests (CIEMAT-PSA, CENER, Fraunhofer IKTS, Walter E.C. Pritzkow Spezialkeramik)
    • Wednesday 24 September (18h30 – 19h30)
    • For the link to the poster description, visit here

  • Hydrodynamic, Thermal and Optical Evaluation of Ceramic Foam Solar Absorbers (CIEMAT-PSA, CENER, Fraunhofer IKTS, Walter E.C. Pritzkow Spezialkeramik)
    • Wednesday 24 September (18h30 – 19h30)
    • For the link to the poster description, visit here

  • Measurement of Concentrated Solar Flux in Solar Simulator using Optical Fiber-Based Radiometer (University of Seville, CENER, IMDEA)
    • Wednesday 24 September, (18h30 – 19h30)
    • For the link to the poster description, visit here

View the entire SolarPACES 2025 conference programme on the event website.

Side event – CST4ALL

ASTERIx-CAESar is also on the agenda of this side event: EU CST Projects & Research Agenda. It focuses on EU-funded research in the Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) area and how these projects contribute to fulfilling the CST Implementation plan of the SET-Plan.

  • 25 September 2025
  • 9h00 – 11h00
  • ASTERIx-CAESar will be presented by Fritz Zaversky (CENER) at 9h25
  • Hybrid event – registrations are free but mandatory via this link

For more information on this event, visit here.