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. An interesting meeting was held in August 14 in SERC Chile. The guest was Timothy […]

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 introduced the members of the advisory committee, 4 of which are also SERC Chile members. […]

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 Palma, SERC Chile director, attended the event. On Tuesday July 15, a seminar organized by […]

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 children, Pre-kindergarten C students at San Ignacio of Alonso Ovalle School, learned how solar […]

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 Chile. In the article they discuss their opposing views on installing a nuclear energy plant […]

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 change in the development of solar energy” This press statement highlights Tania Varas’s project, a […]