EUROPE
2024 – SOLARIZE
2024-2027
The SOLARIZE project intends to enhance the long-term sustainability of the EU-SOLARIS ERIC by successfully achieving its general objectives: enlargement of the membership; further involvement of R&D institutes and national funding institutions at the National Nodes; educating new researchers to make appropriate use of the RIs; reinforcement of international cooperation and of science diplomacy; improvement of the managerial skills of its staff; strengthen the interaction between industrial stakeholders and CST researchers; increase of the general awareness of other possible applications of CST RIs, e.g. industrial process heat; development of new standards and testing protocols; creation of the first e-infrastructure providing Remote/Virtual access to the R&D centres; study of best ways to combine CST with other energy sources and last but not least, targeting the greening of technologies and methodologies used by the CST RIs.
2024 – RISEnergy
2024-2028
The European Green Deal aims to transform the EU into a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy with zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. To achieve more efficient, competitive and cost-effective energy systems and devices, RISEnergy fosters a European ecosystem of industry, research organizations and funding agencies aimed at developing novel energy technologies and concepts, thanks to a consortium of 69 beneficiaries from 22 countries representing 87 research infrastructures in the fields of PV, CSP/STE , hydrogen, biofuels, offshore wind, ocean energy, integrated grids, and energy storage. One main activity is to provide more than 2500 days of access to these research infrastructures, including FR-SOLARIS at PROMES.
2023 – POWDER2POWER
2023-2027, Horizon Europe – IA
The POWDER2POWER project is an innovative project designed to accelerate European green and digital transitions, aligning with the EU’s commitment to climate neutrality by 2050. Positioned within the Cluster 5 “Climate, Energy and Mobility” of the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2021 – 2022, POWDER2POWER innovates a sustainable dispatchable solar energy solution allowing to collect, store and convert solar energy into heat and electricity in a more efficient way than existing commercial technologies.
2023 – CIRCULAR FUELS
Horizon Europe – RIA
Production of sustainable aviation fuels from waste biomass by coupling of fast pyrolysis with solar energy – partenaire
The Circular Fuels project is developing an advanced sustainable aviation fuel production process, that runs with solar energy and waste-based raw materials, and meets EU’s and UN’s sustainability requirements.
2021 – CLÉ-DE-SOL
FEDER
Le projet CLÉ-DE-SOL (2021-2022) a pour objectif la maitrise du flux solaire concentré ainsi que de la température au foyer de la centrale à tour Thémis et du four solaire de 1000 kW à Odeillo.
2021 – e-DéSol EnRMAT
Le projet e-DéSol EnRMAT vise à doter les deux plateaux (Centre de Caractérisation de la Matière « C2M » et Centre d’Essais Solaire de Perpignan « CESP ») de la plateforme d’équipements pour renforcer ses activités de recherche, innovation et transfert. De l’amont (recherche) à l’aval (industrie) celles-ci sont dédiées à la transition énergétique et plus particulièrement le solaire.
2022 – TOP CSP
Horizon Europe – Actions Marie Curie
Towards Competitive, Reliable, Safe and sustainable Concentrated Solar Power – partenaire
The ”Towards Competitive, Reliable, Safe and Sustainable Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Plants” (TOPCSP) doctoral network offers a unique international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary research and innovation framework to 10 promising doctoral fellows. The research and training activities of TOPCSP will boost the fellows’ excellence in the development of innovative technologies and so that they will be capable of solving the challenges that currently face the solar thermal power industry. CSP plants with thermal storage are capable of providing dispatchable power to the grid or controlled process heat and, hence, constitute a key technology for the word’s transition to a renewable & carbon-free energy generation system.
SFERA III
The overall objective of this project is to carry on with the work done during the past 8 years in the SFERA 1 and SFERA 2 projects and reinforce the sustainability of the activities of the European advanced Concentrating Solar Power research infrastructures.
NEXT-CSP
Next-CSP is a consortium of 10 partners gathered to fulfil one objective: improving the reliability and performance of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants through the development and integration of a new technology based on the use of high temperature (800°C) particles as heat transfer fluid and storage medium.
POLYPHEM
POLYPHEM is a Horizon 2020 project funded under the Energy programme (LCE-07-2016-2017 – Developing the next generation technologies of renewable electricity and heating/cooling). The consortium is coordinated by CNRS and implemented by a total of 9 partners from 4 EU member countries.
IMPROVMENT
IMPROVMENT will develop, validate and demonstrate a system to turn public buildings into almost zero energy consumption buildings (nZeB) by including mirco-networks of generation combining warm, cold and electricity and conceive to respond to the SUDOE climate conditions.
MINISTOR
MiniStor is a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme to offer a sustainable solution to harness the energy efficiency potential of the European building stock