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 […]

Within the framework of the seminar “The public challenge of environmental transformations in Chile,” an activity held during the university's sustainability week, the launch of “Las energías de Chile”—a new edition of the prominent Anales journal—took place. This event featured the participation of former President Ricardo […]

The four-wheeled solar vehicle—created by students—demonstrated its ability to race alongside a sophisticated Tesla Model S, the only one in South America. The EOLIAN project was established in 2007 as a student initiative, guided by the Departments of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the University of Chile—an initiative supported […]

The team visited the Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA) in Spain, the Odeillo Solar Laboratory in France, and the International Solar Energy Research Center Konstanz (ISC) in Germany. An agreement was signed with the ISC to establish a joint research program. Fifteen researchers from the Solar Energy Research Center (SERC Chile) toured Spain, […]