Participation in Committees

International organizations:

• SolarPACES: Implementing Agreement of the International Energy Agency (IEA) about solar power and chemical energy systems.
  • Active participation in various SolarPACES tasks, especially Guismo: “Directives for modeling concentrating solar power (CSP) system behavior”.

• IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme (SHC):
  • Task 36: “Solar Resource Knowledge Management”.
  • Task 43: “Solar rating and certification procedures”.
  • Task 46: “Solar resource assessment and forecasting”.

• ESTELA: European Solar Thermal Electricity Association.
  • Participation in the Scientific-Technical Committee.

• SOLARCONCENTRA: Concentrating solar power technology Platform.
  • Coordination of Work Group GT – 4: Prioritization of R&D activities.
    

 Technical committees

• Standardization committees:
  • AENOR: CTN 94 (Solar Thermal Energy) and CTN 206 (Power Production SC001 – Solar Thermal Power Systems).
  • CEN: TC312 (Thermal solar systems and components) WG1 (Solar thermal collectors) and WG2 (factory made solar thermal systems).
  • ISO: TC 180 (Solar Energy).

• Certification Committees:
  • AENOR: CTC 78 (Solar Thermal Energy).