Welcome to SolarPACES 2025!

Welcome to the 31st SolarPACES Conference, the world’s leading conference on concentrating solar power, thermal and chemical energy systems!

Following the outstanding success of the 2024 conference, we look forward to holding 2025 at a venue with a long history in CSP research: Almería, Spain. Since the early 1980s, innovative research has been conducted there that has helped to significantly increase the efficiency and commercial viability of CSP technologies.

Join us as a speaker, participant or sponsor and don't miss the exciting conference program or the technical tour. We look forward to seeing you!

Chairperson's Invitation

Arantxa Fernandez, the SolarPACES 2025 Chairwoman, invites you to attend the 31st conference in Almería, Spain!

Read Arantxa Fernandez' welcome message

Conference Topics

• Advanced Materials, Manufacturing, and Components
• Commercial Projects
• Emerging and Disruptive Concepts
• Measurement Systems, Devices, and Procedures
• CSP Integration, Markets, and Policy
• Power Cycles
• Solar Industrial Process Heat and Thermal Desalination
• Operations, Maintenance, and Component Reliability
• Analysis and Simulation of CSP Systems
• Hybrid Systems
• Digital Tools and AI in Concentrating Solar Technology
• Solar Fuels and Chemical Commodities
• Solar Resource Assessment
• Thermal Energy Storage Materials, Media, and Systems
• Solar Collector Systems
• Receivers and Heat Transfer Media: Linear Systems
• Receivers and Heat Transfer Media: Point Focus Systems

Internal Area 2024

The extended abstracts, presentations as PDF files and posters of the SolarPACES 2024 conference ( cleared for publication) can be downloaded in the internal area 2024. The internal area is available for the 2024 registered participants only. In order to access the internal area, please log in to the Fourwaves platform.

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