In order to discuss and analyze the main challenges and development options for solar energy in Chile, the MSc Energy and environmental program of the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez will hold the seminar “Thermosolar and…
The center welcomed the Division of Chemistry of the National Science Foundation director. Our director, Rodrigo Palma, along with associated researchers and María Eugenia Camelio, CONICYT FONDAP program director, shared with Patten the developments in solar energy in Chile.…
On July 31, at Cultural Center La Moneda, Minister Máximo Pacheco reported on the planning process for “Energy 2050,” a committee that seeks to define a participatory energy policy with a long-term view for the next 30 years. He also…
The seminar, Energy Agenda: Chile’s great challenge, took place on Tuesday, July 15 in the SOFOFA auditorium. The Chilean Renewable Energies Association, ACERA, organized the event. Two hundred participants and a group of panelists and esteemed presenters, such as Rodrigo…
On the morning of June 24, Rodrigo Palma, director of SERC-Chile, gave a different kind of talk. With the help of professor Marcelo Matus, he explained how solar energy works to an attentive audience of 5 and 6 year olds.…
The May edition of Electricity Journal featured an interesting interview between Fernando Sierpe, the Coordinator of the Nuclear Energy Committee of the Engineering School of Chile, and Roberto Román, an academic of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of University of…
An extensive report published by El Mercurio Antofagasta on June 1, which reveals the important developments of Universidad de Antofagasta, one of the six associated universities to SERC Chile on this matter, states that “the city is undergoing an important…
The release of “Las Energías de Chile” issue took place during the seminar “The public challenge of environmental transformations in Chile,” an activity held at the university’s sustainability week, which is a new edition of Annals magazine. The book…
The 4-wheeled solar car – created by students – shows that it is capable of working in equal conditions against the sophisticated Tesla Model S, a unique car in South America. The EOLIAN project was born in 2007…
The team visited the Solar Platform of Almería (PSA, for its Spanish acronym), the Solar Laboratory of Odeillo, in France, and the International Solar Energy Research Center Konstanz (ISC) in Germany. An agreement was signed with the ISC in order…
