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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.
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.
The Renewable Energies Chair - University of Évora (CER-UÉ) will hold the GRECO Workshop on Research and Responsible Innovation (RRI), on November 19, 2020, on an online platform.
The Renewable Energies Chair - University of Évora (CER-UÉ, Portuguese acronym) will present five papers and two posters at the 17th Iberian Congress and the 13th Ibero-American Solar Energy Congress, that will take place online, between the 3rd and 5th November 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The works on the Évora Molten Salt Platform (EMSP) hydraulic circuit were completed, at the end of July, with the completion of the pipe welding process, and with the performance of hydrostatic tests.
