The Center hosted the Director of the Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation. Our director, Rodrigo Palma, along with a group of associate researchers and María Eugenia Camelio, director of the CONICYT FONDAP program, shared the progress in solar energy in Chile with Patten. An interesting meeting was held […]

On July 31, Minister Máximo Pacheco announced the “Energy 2050” planning process, which seeks to define energy policy in a participatory manner, with a long-term vision for the next 30 years. He also took the opportunity to introduce the advisory committee of 25 experts, of which 4 members of SERC are part. The Center […]

On the morning of June 24, the director of SERC-Chile, Rodrigo Palma, gave a different kind of talk. Accompanied by Professor Marcelo Matus, he explained the operation of solar energy to an attentive audience of 5 to 6 year olds. The children, students of Pre-Kindergarten C at Colegio San Ignacio de Alonso Ovalle, learned using solar-powered cars, flashlights […]

The May issue of Electricidad magazine brought together Fernando Sierpe, Coordinator of the Nuclear Energy Committee of the Colegio de Ingenieros de Chile, and Roberto Román, an academic from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Universidad de Chile, in an interesting interview contrasting their views on the installation of a power plant […]

“The city is undergoing a significant change in solar energy development,” states an extensive report published by El Mercurio de Antofagasta on June 1, which reveals the significant progress being made by the Universidad de Antofagasta, one of the six universities associated with SERC Chile, in this area. In the […]