LINKS FROM DESERTEC-UK

Here are various links relating to CSP, DESERTEC, TREC and DESERTEC-UK:

Campaigns for CSP
Conference organisers, magazines, websites
- CSP Today
- CPV Today
- Solar Industry magazine
Development
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
REMAP project, 2006-2008

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 demands
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) 123 08-09 . This calls on the Government to promote the DESERTEC concept vigorously, working with its international partners. If you are a UK citizen, please write to your MP and ask them to sign EDM 123 .
- 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
- How clean solar power may replace dirty kinds of power
- 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
Mediterranean Solar Plan
- The Union for the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean Solar Plan (PDF, 786 KB, slides by Carsten Hoyer-Klick, 2008-11-27).
- Proposal to incorporate MicroCSP in the Mediterranean Solar Plan (scroll down for the English version). See also Projet du Feu Solaire.
- Presentations of the expert workshop on the Mediterranean Solar Plan,
  28th and 29th October 2008, Berlin, Germany
Miscellaneous

EcoMed 21: promoting the sustainable development of the Mediterranean area.
The Seawater Greenhouse
CSP blogs
Why we don't need nuclear power
World of Renewables

Last updated: 2009-01-05 (ISO 8601)