LINKS FROM TREC-UK

• Campaigns for CSP
• Conference organisers, magazines, websites
  • CSP Today
  • CPV Today
  • Solar Industry magazine
• Development
  • Companies and associations
  • International agencies
  • CSP projects
  • Conferences and exhibitions
  • Related conferences and exhibitions
  • Greentech investors
• Research
• German Aerospace Centre (DLR)
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL, US Department of Energy)
• EU Institute for Energy
• RSA Carbon Limited runs the Energy 2020 project.
• Sandia National Laboratories (US Department of Energy)
• Ciemat (Spain)
• Solar energy at the ANU
• Troughnet: the NREL parabolic trough solar power network
• Discussion: TREC discussion forum for news and discussion related to the DESERTEC concept.
• Information
  • There is an overview of CSP with links to other sources of information.
  • CSP plants on Google Earth (needs Google Earth to be installed on your computer)
  • Copies of the AQUA-CSP, TRANS-CSP and MED-CSP reports may be downloaded from the DLR reports page. This page also contains links to other reports about CSP and decarbonising the world's economy.
  • The CSP resources page provides links to leaflets, a slide show, a CD information kit about CSP and the TREC ideas, and our Google Earth database (next).
  • PESWiki directory: concentrated solar power
  • CSP info
• Electrical engineering
  • Electricity transmission grids
  • Kick-start and upgrade: how countries thoughout Europe may benefit soon from "clean power from deserts"
  • The cascading principle: long-distance transfers of electricity without long-distance transmission
  • How to increase the capacity of an HVAC transmission grid
  • Minimising the visual impact of new transmission lines
  • Storage of electricity and solar thermal energy
  • Matching variable electricity supplies with variable demand
• News
  • Main news page
  • Recent highlights
  • Related news
  • Straws in the wind. This page contains items of news that seem to point to major trends in renewable energy and conservation of energy.
• Politicians, policies, and the DESERTEC concept
  • Early Day Motion (EDM) 1871. This calls on the UK government to endorse the DESERTEC concept formally and to work with its international partners to advance the concept. If you are a UK citizen, please write to your MP and ask them to sign EDM 1871.
  • Speeches and other public statements by politicians
  • Adjournment debate on "Concentrated solar power" in the House of Commons in the UK Parliament, 2008-02-28:
    • Transcript from Hansard
    • A video recording of the debate (ASF file, Windows Media, 44.4 MB).
  • European Union:
    • Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (2008-01-23)
    • Towards a European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (2007-01-10)
• Climate campaigns
  • Speaker networks:
    • Climate Change Speaker Network
    • Talk Action
  • The Alliance for Climate Protection. Campaign led by Al Gore.
  • We can solve the climate crisis. A project of the Alliance (above). Proposed solutions include large-scale expansion of renewables, including CSP.
• Energy
  • Peak oil and peak coal
  • The "Energy Island" concept. This proposal for floating energy-generating islands in tropical regions includes proposals for the use of CSP on the islands.
  • Timescales for introducing DESERTEC power into EUMENA
• Miscellaneous
• How clean solar power may replace dirty kinds of power
• CSP blogs
• Why we don't need nuclear power
• World of Renewables