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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.
The Renewable Energies Chair - University of Évora (CER-UÉ) collaborator, Afonso Cavaco, was approved with distinction and praise in the PhD exam in Earth and Space Sciences - Specialty in Atmospheric Physics, held on July 30th.
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".
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).
The Renewable Energies Chair - University of Évora (CER-UÉ) starts the “Mais Fotovoltaico, Mais Energia” campaign [“More Photovoltaic, More Energy” campaign] of inspection of photovoltaic systems in Portugal, on June 24.
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.
The Renewable Energies Chair of University of Évora (CER-UÉ) researcher, Maria Helena Novais, and Professor Manuela Morais, from the Department of Biology (UÉ) - Institute of Earth Sciences (ICT), are guest editors of a Special Issue of the Journal Water, dedicated to the "Inland Aquatic Ecosystems and Conservation".
