With his talk titled “Transportation Fuels from Sunlight to Air,” Aldo Steinfeld joins SERC Chile’s Distinguished Speakers Program. Steinfeld is a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) and gave his talk on Friday, January 15. His talk is available here.

Through the Distinguished Speakers Program, SERC Chile seeks to foster broad opportunities for dissemination and discussion based on cutting-edge international research, which is key to the development of solar energy in Chile.

The entire series consists of 12 talks. Previous speakers were:

Claudio Cañizares,from the University of Waterloo in Canada, presented a paper titled “An Overview of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) and Renewable Energy Sources (RES),” which you can viewhere.

Vijay Vittal, with the presentation“Recent Advances in the Use of Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Online Dynamic Security Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities in Chile.” His talk is availablehere.

Federico Milano, from University College Dublin, who presented “Impact of Energy Storage on Power System Dynamic Performance.” Watch his talkhere.

Radovan Kopecek, co-founder of ISC Konstanz, presented a talk titled“The Power of Bifacial PV.” His presentation is availablehere.

Delfina Muñoz, project manager at the French CEA-INES, presented on “Challenges of Solar Photovoltaics for a Circular and Green Economy.” Her talk is availablehere.

Antonio Gómez Expósito, director of the Endesa Red Chair at the University of Seville, who presented “Towards a fully renewable electricity mix in Spain: the solar decade.”Link to the talk.

Luiz Barroso, CEO of the Brazilian firm PSR Consultoría and research associate at Comillas University in Madrid, presented a talktitled “The Challenges of Renewable Energy Penetration and the Need to Modernize Markets.” Histalk is recordedhere.