Sun-drenched Cyprus imports most of its energy, but this is unnecessary: Cyprus
Sun-drenched Cyprus imports most of its energy, but this is unnecessary: Cyprus has the highest solar power potential in the European Union. Local engineers and researchers, together with energy experts from Austria and Denmark, have worked to develop the use of this natural resource on the island.
The research promoted the development of Cyprus as a hub for solar power innovation.
The initiative harnessed expertise on all aspects of the solar energy cycle. This includes the solar cells that harvest the sun''s energy, the storage systems required to exploit a variable resource that is unavailable at night, and the smart power grids needed to distribute and manage the flow of electricity.
Early successes in the initiative included a novel method to tackle harmful leakages of electrical power in solar energy systems, which can degrade the long-term performance of solar cells.
The improved cells were designed for use in a new solar park at the University of Cyprus, meeting all the university''s electricity needs.
The efforts of the local and international consortium have also led to many new proposals for future research that build on the initial results.
The work is helping to train the next generation of solar energy researchers and engineers.
They are needed to sustain progress and promote further advances. Specific training sessions have focused on photovoltaic performance and monitoring, degradation, fault detection, power forecasting, grid integration and battery storage. The results of this training were presented at two international conferences.
Additional work with Cypriot industrial partners will continue to strengthen collaboration between industry and academia, benefiting the solar power industry in Cyprus, throughout Europe and beyond.
Outside of Europe, the work has enhanced the links between the EU partners and countries in the Middle East and North Africa, which also have vast solar energy potential.
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The CyI Solar Thermal Energy Chair for the Eastern Mediterranean (CySTEM – Chair) project aims at consolidating and upgrading the already substantial activity at the Cyprus Institute (CyI) in Solar Energy, principally solar-thermal and related activities. This will be accomplished by attracting and installing a cluster of outstanding researchers, led by a professor of international stature to maximally utilize and upgrade the existing facilities, and pursue a program of excellence in Cyprus with local and regional focus in the region of Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (EMME).
The principal focus will be on Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technologies for electricity production, desalination, air conditioning and heating, either in isolation or in multi-generation modes. The Chair shall be embedded in CyI''s Energy Environment and Water Research Centre (EEWRC), a Centre with intense activity in climate change (and adaptation strategies), water management, and sustainability.
CyI, being a technologically orientated research and educational institution, will provide the CySTEM Chair the opportunity to contribute to other related important activities of technoeconomic nature, such as the definition of a road map for Renewable Energy Sources (and Solar in particular) development in the area in light of the recent discoveries of substantial Natural Gas deposits in the Eastern Mediterranean.
CyI Principal Investigator: Prof. Costas N. Papanicolas
More in this category: OPTS; EU-SOLARIS; STAGE-STE; STS-MED; STEP-EW; CSP-DSW; MED-CSD; NESTER; EoCoE
None – this is an ERA Chair Project with a single beneficiary
The CyI European Research Area (ERA) Chair in Solar Thermal Energy for the Eastern Mediterranean (CySTEM – ERA Chair) project is one of the few prestigious ERA Chairs awarded by the European Commission across Europe and the only one in the field of Solar Energy. As stated in by the European Commission in its website, "the ERA Chairs is an important part of the EU''s effort to unlock Europe''s potential in research and innovation." It is an ambitious action funded under Horizon 2020.
Main building of The Cyprus Institute Headquarters at Nicosia, Cyprus
The CySTEM – ERA Chair aims at consolidating and upgrading the already substantial activity at the Cyprus Institute (CyI) in Solar Energy, principally in Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) and related activities. This is being accomplished by attracting and installing a cluster of outstanding researchers to maximally utilize and upgrade the existing facilities, and pursue a program of excellence in Cyprus, with local and regional focus in the region of Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (EMME).
The CySTEM ERA Chair action has the goal of enhancing the already significant international standing of the Solar and Desalination Group of the Cyprus Institute to consolidate it into a leader in the Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) research field. It is a 5-year project, which started on 1 July 2015. It has a total budget of €3.5 Million (including €2.5 Million from the EC).The group''s main research efforts are targeted to developing innovative small polygeneration CST system concepts, which have been initially established in collaboration with leading research institutions of USA and Europe, such as MIT and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, under the leadership of Cyprus Institute''s President, Prof. C.N. Papanicolas.
The Cyprus Institute''s Platform for Research, Observation and Technological Applications in Solar energy "PROTEAS" in Pentakomo.
The CySTEM ERA Chair, Prof. Manuel Blanco, with representatives of the European Commission, colleagues from CIEMAT and ENEA, members of the Cyprus Institute´s Solar and Desalination Group and students, with occasion of the First NESTER School –one of the several EC funded projects in Solar Energy in which the Cyprus Institute participates.
Some of the new activities of the group also include the creation of models for the appraisal of impacts of energy on the economy as a whole, but also in specific sectors such as the jobs market, the creation of wealth and the shifting landscape of a technologically driven economy by means of equilibrium models and impact studies. The EEWRC is pursuing these goals in sync, as the energy, water and atmospheric sciences will all be housed together under the same modelling framework.
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