Renewable Energies Chair
Created in 2010, the Renewable Energies Chair at the University of Évora (CER-UÉ) has the mission of developing technological solutions and applications of solar energy for the decarbonization of different sectors of the economy: industry and agriculture, electricity generation, transport or communities. With important skills in the field of solar concentration optics, CER-UÉ leads INIESC - National Research Infrastructure in Solar Energy Concentration, which, in partnership with LNEG - National Laboratory of Energy and Geology, aims at the use and development of technologies for solar concentration and energy storage, in order to enhance the contribution of solar energy to the Energy Transition.
Published in 24.11.2023
The main objective of the project, integrated into the 3rd Call for Proposals of the Interreg VI-A Spain-Portugal Cross-Border Cooperation Program (POCTEP) 2021-2027, is to promote and disseminate, in collaboration with five other partners, the virtues and capabilities of green hydrogen as an industry of the future and to empower its supply chain to boost the development and expansion of this energy vector.
From 11.09.2023 | 09:00 to 15.09.2023 | 17:00
The 4th Doctoral Colloquium and Summer School of SFERA-III will be held from 11 to 15 September 2023. These events will be hosted by DLR in Cologne (Germany).
Published in 07.12.2022
With SFERA-III, benefit from free access to top research infrastructures in Concentrated Solar Thermal power across Europe!
From 12.09.2022 | 09:00 to 16.09.2022 | 17:00
Published in 25.11.2021
With SFERA-III, benefit from free access to top research infrastructures in Concentrated Solar Thermal power across Europe!
Published in 10.05.2021
The European project EERES4WATER, funded by the INTERREG Atlantic Area Programme, participates in the celebration of the EU Green Week 2021, promoted by European Commission.
Published in 15.04.2021
The Renewable Energies Chair - University of Évora (CER-UÉ, Portuguese acronym) collaborates, on a regular basis, with three research centers classified in the Top 5 of the European Research Ranking 2020.
Published in 13.04.2021
Manuel Collares-Pereira, former Holder of the Renewable Energies Chair - University of Évora (CER-UÉ, Portuguese acronym) and former coordinating researcher and professor at this university, donated his collection of publications and monographs to the Library of the University of Évora.
Published in 24.03.2021
The Renewable Energies Chair - University of Évora (CER-UÉ, Portuguese acronym) researchers André V. Santos and Diogo Canavarro are co-authors of the communication “Geometric optimization of linear Fresnel reflector solar collector using a genetic algorithm”, which will be presented at SYMPCOMP 2021 - 5th International Conference on Numerical and Symbolic Computation Developments and Applications, which takes place online, between 25 and 26 March.
Published in 22.03.2021
The EERES4WATER project organizes a Seminar on Intellectual Property Rights, on March 23, presented by University College Cork (UCC) researchers, and aimed at early career researchers.
Published in 18.03.2021
Since 17th March, the Renewable Energies Chair at the University of Évora (CER-UÉ) is part of Batteries Europe, a technology and innovation platform of the European Commission with the aim of developing an innovative, competitive and sustainable battery value chain as a component strategy of Europe's green and digital transition.
Published in 10.03.2021
The innovative wave-driven desalination technology system Wave20TM, and a feasibility study that yields conclusive data on operational improvements on the capture of water and energy consumption of the Piedra Santa Desalination Complex by incorporating a floating ‘nearshore’ solar plant, are the main topics of the 3rd EERES4WATER Newsletter.
Published in 02.02.2021
The SolaQua - Accessible, reliable and affordable solar irrigation for Europe and beyond - is closer to potential stakeholders in solar irrigation technologies, with its presence on the internet, on its own website and on social media platforms.
Published in 26.01.2021
Diogo Canavarro, researcher at the Renewable Energies Chair - University of Évora (CER-UÉ, Portuguese acronym) is the guest editor of the special issue “Novel Research on Linear Fresnel Reflector Systems” of the journal Optics. Optics is an open access scientific journal dedicated to all fields of optical sciences and technologies for which MDPI is responsible.
Published in 19.01.2021
The EERES4WATER (Promoting Energy-Water Nexus resource efficiency through Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency) project highlights the presentation of the Wave2O™ desalination technology, developed by Resolute Marine, at the INTERREG Atlantic Area Programme stakeholders conference.
Published in 14.01.2021
The Renewable Energies Chair - University of Évora (CER-UÉ, Portuguese acronym) published seven articles in “CIES2020: As Energias Renováveis na Transição Energética: Livro de Comunicações do XVII Congresso Ibérico e XIII Congresso Ibero-americano de Energia Solar”, on a transversal approach to some key research areas and projects under development.
Published in 26.11.2020
The Renewable Energies Chair - University of Évora (CER-UÉ, Portuguese acronym) celebrates, this November, ten years of existence since its constitution in 2010, completing the first decade of contributions to the energy transition.
Published in 18.11.2020
The H2020 SolAqua - Accessible, reliable and affordable solar irrigation for Europe and beyond project received an Honorable Mention, in the category of 'Sustainability' in the “The Best of Technological Portugal” awards, attributed by the Exame Informática magazine.
Published in 12.11.2020
The ALFR-Alentejo project (Installation, testing and analysis of an Advanced Linear Fresnel Reflector concentrator to produce electricity by means of solar thermal with thermal storage) has a new website, available at www.alfr-alentejo.uevora.pt.
Published in 28.10.2020
The Renewable Energies Chair – University of Évora (CER-UÉ, Portuguese acronym) moved, this October, to a new headquarters at the Edifício Ário Lobo de Azevedo, in the Polo da Mitra. This change, which required some technical interventions in the building, allowed CER-UÉ to implement a set of measures aligned with the principles of sustainability based on the use of solar energy.
Published in 16.10.2020
The Kick-off Meeting of the SolaQua - affordable, reliable and accessible solar irrigation for Europe and beyond, took place on 14 and 15 October, in online format, due to the current situation of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe.
Published in 14.10.2020
The PEARL-PV - Performance and reliability of photovoltaic systems: valuations of large-scale monitoring data (COST Action 16235) project published Newsletter No. 5, this October.
Published in 22.09.2020
What to do with all the used batteries from electric vehicles? The Renewable Energies Chair - University of Évora (CER-UÉ, Portuguese acronym) and Betteries are testing the best responses, in an intervention integrated in the POCITYF - POsitive Energy CITY Transformation Framework.
Published in 15.09.2020
The Renewable Energies Chair - University of Évora (CER-UÉ, Portuguese acronym) was present at the European PV Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC 2020), which took place online between 7 and 11 September, with the communication “Vanadium Redox Flow Battery Modeling and PV self-consumption strategy optimization, by Ana Catarina Foles, Luís Fialho, Manuel Collares-Pereira and Pedro Horta.
Published in 31.07.2020
The Renewable Energies Chair - University of Évora (CER-UÉ) and the Directorate-General for Energy and Geology (DGEG), met, on July 28, in Évora, under the Protocol for Cooperation and Development of Joint Actions, to discuss the "Production of Solar Green Hydrogen".
Published in 21.07.2020
The National Infrastructure for Research on Concentrated Solar Energy (INIESC), coordinated by the Renewable Energies Chair - University of Évora (CER-UÉ), in partnership with the National Energy and Geology Laboratory, IP (LNEG), is one of 56 Portuguese infrastructures that are part of the National Roadmap for Infrastructures of Strategic Interest (RNIE).
Published in 03.06.2020
The Renewable Energies Chair - University of Évora (CER-UÉ) is the only Portuguese entity to be part of the SolAqua project consortium (Accessible, reliable and affordable solar irrigation for Europe and beyond), focused on high-power photovoltaic irrigation with support from the Horizon 2020 programme. Solar irrigation will allow the supply of energy for irrigation with zero emissions and a cost up to 70% lower than existing fossil fuel-based solutions.
