Meet Our Plenary Speakers
Minister Mona Neubaur
Minister for Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy of the State North Rhine-Westphalia
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Fengli Du
China Solar Thermal Alliance, CSP Committee of the China Renewable Energy Society
Plenary Talk: CSP in China
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Fidel Carrasco González
Ministry of Energy Mexico
Plenary Talk: Solar Thermal Projects in Baja California Sur, Mexico
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Joachim Krüger
ESTELA
Plenary Talk: CST in Central Europe: operation experience, economics, and options in Germany
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Gregor Bern
Fraunhofer ISE
Plenary Talk: CST in Central Europe: operation experience, economics, and options in Germany
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Chris Kimmett
Odqa
Plenary Talk: The Public Purse, The Patient Investor & The Industrial Offtaker - and why every bankability question Is a cost of heat question in disguise
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Johannes Kretschmann
Fichtner GmbH & Co. KG
Plenary Talk: From Feasibility to Operation: Making Solar Thermal Projects Bankable
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Marina Montero Carrero
European Commission
Plenary Talk: Supporting Concentrated Solar Innovation: Lessons Learned and Future EU Funding Opportunities
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Dirk Krüger
DLR
Plenary Talk: CST in Central Europe: operation experience, economics, and options in Germany
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Vincent Schott
World Bank
Financing Solar Thermal Deployment: Risk, Bankability and Scale-Up
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Kent Warren
Solar Energy Engineering Laboratory
Plenary Talk: Beyond steam methane reforming: redox materials for sustainable hydrogen from water and sunlight
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José González
IMDEA Energy
Plenary Talk: Coupling Concentrated Solar Energy to Thermochemical Cycles and Mineral Calcination: Insights from SUN-to-LIQUID II and Solar Clinkering
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Christian Sattler
DLR
Plenary Talk: From Lab Beyond Mega Watt - Risk mitigation by large scale R&D infrastructure
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Gus Nathan
Centre for Energy Technology, Adelaide University, Heavy Industry Low-carbon Transition CRC
Plenary Talk: Pathways to net-zero process heat for high temperature industrial processes
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Christoph Falter
Synhelion
Plenary Talk: Solar fuel production at plant DAWN: state of the art, performance and outlook
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Inga Miadowic
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Plenary Talk: Solar Energy Autopilot - A Holistic System Architecture for CST and its Evaluation at the Solar Tower Jülich
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Mathias Kuhl
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Plenary Talk: Solar Energy Autopilot - A Holistic System Architecture for CST and its Evaluation at the Solar Tower Jülich
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Marcelino Sanchez
CENER
Plenary Talk: Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence as Key Enablers for Cost Reduction, Reliability Enhancement, and the Expansion of CSP in the Energy Transition (SUN-DT Project)
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Mike Wagner
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Plenary Talk: Enabling Autonomous Operation Through AI-Accelerated Models
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Dutang Yang
Cosin Solar Technology
Plenary Talk: New standard on Heliostat Field Control IEC 6286-4-2
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