LINKS FROM TREC-UK

• Campaigns for CSP
• Conference organisers, magazines, websites
  • CSP Today
  • CPV Today
  • Solar Industry magazine
• Development
  • Companies and associations
  • CSP projects
  • Conferences and exhibitions
  • Greentech investors
• Research
• German Aerospace Centre (DLR)
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL, US Department of Energy)
• Sandia National Laboratories (US Department of Energy)
• Ciemat (Spain)
• Solar energy at the ANU
• Troughnet: the NREL parabolic trough solar power network
• 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
  • The cascading principle: long-distance transfers of electricity without long-distance transmission
  • Minimising the impact of new transmission lines
  • Storage of electricity and solar thermal energy
  • Matching variable electricity supplies with variable demand
• 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
  • Extracts from speeches
  • 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.
• Miscellaneous
• How clean solar power may replace dirty kinds of power
• CSP blogs
• Why we don't need nuclear power
• World of Renewables