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Register of EUS partners’ attendance at Info-day

Prepared by Derek BAKER of METU GÜNAM

Month/Year August 2016

The EU-SOLARIS Project is co-funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union

Combination of Collaborative project and Support Action (CP-CSA)

Integrating Activities / e-Infrastructures / Preparatory phase

FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1

Project Start Date: 1st November 2012, Project Duration: 4 years

EU-SOLARIS InfoDay for Turkey

The EU-SOLARIS Project is co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. 2 of 24

EU-SOLARIS InfoDay

Multiple Dates and Locations

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 3

2. Workshop on Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) ......................................................................... 8

3. Special Session on Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) at the 3rd Turkish Solar Electricity Conference and Exhibition (SolarTR3) ......................................................................................... 6

4. Invited Speaker on STE at the International Workshop on Special Topics on Polymeric Composites ....................................................................................................................................... 8

5. CST Seminar to the METU Center for Wind Energy ................................................................. 10

6. CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................................................................ 12

ANNEX A: 3rd International Semiconductor Science and Technology Conference ................. 13

ANNEX B: Workshop on Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)......................................................... 15

ANNEX C: Special Session on Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) at the 3rd Turkish Solar Electricity Conference and Exhibition (SolarTR3) .................................................................... 21

ANNEX D: International Workshop On Special Topics On Polymeric Composites ................. 23


1. INTRODUCTION

The EU-SOLARIS Information Day for Turkey (EUS InfoDay-Turkey) was originally scheduled for the SOLAREX Solar Energy and Technologies Fair in Istanbul, 6-8 April 2016 (http://eng.solarexistanbul.com/). The event is one of the premiere solar energy events in Turkey and has strong participation from industry and ministries. The EUS participant ESTELA (European Solar Thermal Electricity Association) had agreed to give an invited talk on industrial and market opportunities for Solar Thermal Electricity (STE) and the need for EUS to be constituted to exploit these opportunities. Discussions were underway with the EUS project office at CTAER and the EUS participant CRES for a second invited talk on the vision for EUS. Unfortunately, approximately 6-weeks before the event, the event organisers indicated that they did not have space for a dedicated workshop and they could only allocate 20 minutes for 1-talk. Since this was insufficient for the EUS InfoDay-Turkey, EUS InfoDay-Turkey was rescheduled for the 3rd International Semiconductor Science and Technology Conference in Konya, 26-28 August 2016. In Turkey the research, industry and markets for Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) are currently very nascent while that for solar photovoltaic (PV) are much larger and mature. The scope of the conference included PV, and having the EUS InfoDay-Turkey at this conference would provide an entry into the solar energy research, ministerial, and industrial communities. The tentative conference program is attached as Annex A with the EUS InfoDay-Turkey scheduled on 28 August 2016. Unfortunately, due to political events over the summer of 2016 in Turkey many of the international invited speakers cancelled and as a result the conference itself was cancelled on 22 August 2016. At this point insufficient time remained to make a third attempt to organise a formal EUS InfoDay-Turkey. However and as detailed in this report, the Turkish EU-SOLARIS partners METU GÜNAM and Selcuk University have achieved the primary outcomes expected from the EUS InfoDay-Turkey of raising awareness of and support for EU-SOLARIS through several targeted events and activities that spanned the EU-SOLARIS project.

The most important of these events was a 1-day workshop on Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) organised explicitly as part of the EU-SOLARIS Project on 10 February 2014 in Ankara/TURKEY. The scope and objectives for this 1-day workshop were similar to that for the EUS InfoDay-Turkey, with the major difference being that it was held close to the mid-point of the project rather than toward the end. This 1-day workshop was complemented by several subsequent and more targeted events organized closer to the end of the project as follows:

1. Special Session on Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) at the 3rd Turkish Solar Electricity Conference and Exhibition (SolarTR3) 27-29 April 2015, which included Invited Talks on STE and EU-SOLARIS by EUS participants PSA and CRES.

2. Invited Speaker on STE at the International Workshop On Special Topics On Polymeric Composites, Izmir, TURKEY, 26 February, 2016 (Note: This invited talk was originally scheduled for the International Symposium On Concentrating Solar Power Systems from 5-7 November 2015 in Kusadasi, TURKEY, which was cancelled with key parts being integrated into this workshop).

3. CST Seminar to the METU Center for Wind Energy (RUZGEM), Ankara, TURKEY, 6 May 2016.

Details for each of these events are provided in the following sections.

http://eng.solarexistanbul.com/


2. Workshop on Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)

2.1 INFO-DAY/WORKSHOP TABLE FACT SHEET Event title

Workshop on Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)

Date 10 Feb. 2014 Duration 1-day (8:30-17:00)

Event organisers METU GÜNAM

Event website No longer exists

Place METU Conference and Convention Center

City / Address Ankara Country TURKEY

Parallel Key Event None

No. Attendees 65

EU-SOLARIS partner(s) attending the event: name, entity, role (speaker, participant), etc.

Derek BAKER, METU GÜNAM, Organizer and Presentation;

Marcel BIAL, ESTELA : Invited talk on CSP Market Trends and Opportunities;

Manuel Silva PÉREZ, CTAER, Invited talk on EU-SOLARIS;

Tuba OKUTUCU, METU GÜNAM, Organizer;

Raşit TURAN, METU GÜNAM, Organizer and Presentation.

Communication / dissemination material presented/distributed (type of material and estimated quantities)

Oral presentations and poster.


2.2. OVERVIEW - MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE EVENT

The primary objective of the event was to bring together a broad cross-section of academics, researchers, industrial personnel, government ministers, and funding agency personnel to raise awareness of the importance of CSP for Turkey, share experiences and ideas, and raise support for the EU-SOLARIS project.

2.3. DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT

The workshop lasted all day, with two morning and two afternoon sessions as follows:

1. Opening Talks: These talks included opening remarks by the METU Vice President Volkan ATALAY, introductions to GÜNAM and the EU-SOLARIS project by Raşit TURAN and Derek BAKER of METU GÜNAM, and EU Funding Opportunities for CSP by İlknur YILMAZ of TÜBİTAK, which is the main Turkish Scientific Funding Agency.

2. Keynote Talks: These keynote talks were by the EU-SOLARIS partners Marcel BIAL (ESTELA) and Manuel Silva PÉREZ (CTAER). Importantly, these keynote speakers were from Western Europe and gave the workshop an important international perspective.

3. Industry: One of the three industry presentations was by the leading Turkish CSP Company Greenway CSP. The other two presentations were by German companies active in the nascent Turkish market (Novatec and SOLITEM).

4. Applications and Opportunities in Turkey: These five presentations gave an overview of activities in Turkey.

A detailed program of this workshop is provided in in Annex B.

2.4. ATTENDEES PROFILE While other CSP workshops had been organized in Turkey previously, this is the first time that a workshop was organized with such a large and diverse cross-section of participants in terms of background (academics, industry, ministries, funding agencies, and general public) and geography, with significant participation not only from all parts of Turkey but also from Europe. A List of Attendees is given in Annex B.

2.5. EVALUATION OF THE EVENT BY PARTICIPANT Since this workshop was organized well before the material for the EUS InfoDay was prepared including the material to allow participants to evaluate the InfoDay, a formal evaluation of the event by the participants was not performed. However, the attendance to the event was strong (65 participants) and diverse, and informal feedback indicated that the workshop was effective in achieving the objectives stated above.


3. Special Session on Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) at the 3rd Turkish Solar Electricity Conference and Exhibition (SolarTR3)


Conference Session on Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)

Date 28 April 2015 Duration 1 hr 15 min.

Event organisers METU GÜNAM

Event website Removed.

Place METU Conference and Convention Center


Parallel Key Event 3rd Turkish Solar Electricity Conference and Exhibition (SolarTR3)

No. Attendees Approximately 20


Derek BAKER, METU GÜNAM, Session Chair.

Vassiliki DROSOU, CRES, Greece, Invited Talk: “EU-SOLARIS: The European Infrastructure for Concentrated Solar Thermal and Solar Chemistry Technologies”

Tuba OKUTUCU, METU GÜNAM, Organizer.

Raşit TURAN, METU GÜNAM, Organizer and Presentation

Eduardo ZARZA, PSA, Spain, Invited Talk: “Priority R+D topics for STE sector”.


Oral Presentations

3.2. OVERVIEW - MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE EVENT The Turkish Solar Electricity Conference and Exhibition (SolarTR3) series is the main scientific solar electricity conference and exhibition series in Turkey. As the largest and leading solar energy research center in Turkey, METU GÜNAM is always heavily involved in organizing this event, and was the host for SolarTR3. The audience for SolarTR3 was a mixture of academics, graduate students, researchers, industrial personnel, and the general public. As indicated above, STE research, industry and markets in Turkey are nascent, and the main objective for this CSP Session was to give an introduction to CSP and EU-SOLARIS.

3.3. DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT As indicated above, the session included two invited talks by EU-SOLARIS participants on STE research needs and EU-SOLARIS.


3.4. ATTENDEES PROFILE As noted above, the audience was approximately 20 people representing a mixture of academics, graduate students, researchers, industrial personnel, and the general public. Some of these people were working in the area of CST.

3.5. EVALUATION OF THE EVENT BY PARTICIPANT Since this workshop was organized well before the material for the EUS InfoDay was prepared including the material to allow participants to evaluate the InfoDay, a formal evaluation of the event by the participants was not performed. However, qualitatively while the presentations by EUS participants were strong, relative to other events to promote EU-SOLARIS detailed herein the attendance to this event was not as strong.


4. Invited Speaker on STE at the International Workshop on Special Topics on Polymeric Composites


Solar Thermal Electricity: Overview, Activities in Turkey and New METU GÜNAM Laboratory ODAK

Date 26 February 2016 Duration 35 min.

Event organisers Ege University

Event website http://egeweb2.ege.edu.tr/polikom/

Place Anemon Ege Health Hotel

City / Address Izmir Country TURKEY

Parallel Key Event International Workshop On Special Topics On Polymeric Composites

No. Attendees Approximately 40


Derek BAKER, METU GÜNAM, Invited Speaker


Oral Presentation

4.2. OVERVIEW - MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE EVENT This invited talk was originally scheduled for the International Symposium on Concentrating Solar Power Systems, 5-7 November 2015, Kusadasi, TURKEY, which was cancelled and the main activities integrated into this workshop. This workshop had three main themes: 1) Graphene and Nanocomposites; 2) Solar Energy; and 3) Equipment and Technical Textiles for Occupational Safety. The audience was a mixture of academics, graduate students, researchers, industrial personnel, and the general public, many but not all of whom were active or interested in CST. The Objective for the invited talk was to introduce STE technologies, how STE power plants designed to deliver dispatchable and flexible electricity complement rather than compete against wind and PV power plants, and give an overview of EU-SOLARIS.

4.3. DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT Abstract for Invited Talk: An overview of Solar Thermal Electricity (STE) terminology, technologies and research trends is discussed. For terminology, STE is used herein rather than Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) to be consistent with recent trends in Europe. In Turkish, Odaklanmış Isıl Güneş Enerjisi is adopted rather than Yoğunlaştirilmiş Güneş Enerjili Güç Sistemleri. STE technologies are generally classified into one of four geometrical categories: 1) PD = parabolic dish; 2) CR = central receiver; 3) PT = parabolic trough; and 4) LF = linear Fresnel. This classification is based on whether the concentrator is a perfect parabola (PD and PT) or a parabolic approximation (CR and LF), and whether a point (PD and CR) or linear (PT and LF) receiver is used. Three broad trends to decrease costs and


increase value are as follows. First, to increase receiver temperatures to increase power block and solar to electricity efficiencies by moving from linear to point receivers (e.g., PT to CR) and using innovative receiver heat transfer fluids with higher temperature limits. Second, to increase dispatchability by decoupling electricity production from solar resources by integrating Thermal Energy Storage (TES) or hybridizing STE with other thermal energy sources (e.g., combustion). Third, to increase flexibility such that the output of STE power plants can respond quickly to changes in supply and demand. The potential for STE power plants to be dispatchable and flexible substantially increases the value of the electricity produced, and makes STE a complementary rather than competing technology to PV and wind, with STE actually allowing greater penetrations of PV and wind energy into a grid. The Center for Solar Energy Research and Applications GÜNAM at Middle East Technical University was recently award a project from the Turkish Ministry of Development to create Turkey’s first dedicated Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) Research Lab ODAK, with a specific focus on STE Research, Technology Development and Innovation (RTDI). The mission for ODAK is to coordinate, enable and lead CST RTDI domestically, and actively contribute to CST RTDI globally, in particular through EU-SOLARIS. EU-SOLARIS is a project in which GÜNAM is participating to synergistically integrate the CST Research Infrastructures (RI) distributed among these 13 partners into a single legal, financial and managerial structure of European character. The resulting RI would be the largest CST RI in the world. Domestically, ODAK personnel have been collaborating with the Turkish firms TYT and BM Geothermal to develop a hybrid STE-geothermal demonstration power plant that can both continuously produce electricity and produce peak electricity in summer afternoons. Additionally, the Turkish firm Greenway CSP has developed a demonstration 5 MWth CR power plant in Mersin. These initiatives are discussed.

4.4. ATTENDEES PROFILE As noted above, the audience was approximately 40 people representing a mixture of academics, graduate students, researchers, industrial personnel, and the general public. Some of these people were working or interested in the area of CST.

4.5. EVALUATION OF THE EVENT BY PARTICIPANT Informal feedback indicated that the seminar was effective at introducing the participants to STE technologies, how STE can be an important complementary technology to wind and PV, and EU-SOLARIS. The event strengthened METU GÜNAM’s position as the leading scientific CST node in Turkey and EU-SOLARIS as being the main CST bridge connecting Turkey to the EU.


5. CST Seminar to the METU Center for Wind Energy


Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) Technologies: Overview and activities at the new GÜNAM CST Research Laboratory ODAK

Date 6 May 2016 Duration 1-hr.

Event organisers METU Center for Wind Energy

Event website https://ruzgem.metu.edu.tr/en/

Place METU Center for Wind Energy


Parallel Key Event None

No. Attendees ~ 30


Derek BAKER, METU GÜNAM, Invited Seminar Speaker.


Oral presentation.

5.2. OVERVIEW - MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE EVENT

The METU Center for Wind Energy is the leading and largest wind energy research center in Turkey. Like GÜNAM, the METU Center for Wind Energy is both part of METU and an emerging renewable energy research and innovation micro-cluster centered around METU. The audience was academics and graduate students performing research primarily in wind energy. The Objective was to introduce CST in general and STE specifically to these researchers, how STE power plants designed to deliver dispatchable and flexible electricity can complement rather than compete against wind and PV power plants, and give an overview of EU-SOLARIS.

5.3. DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT

Abstract for Seminar: In this seminar an overview of Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) Technologies and CST activities in Turkey and at GÜNAM’s new CST research laboratory ODAK are presented. CST is an umbrella term that encompasses all solar energy conversion technologies that require higher temperatures or fluxes than non-concentrating technologies can provide. Currently Solar Thermal Electricity (STE) is the most important commercial CST technology, which is also referred to as Concentrating Solar Power (CSP). Increasingly STE is being bundled with Thermal Energy Storage (TES) or hybridized with other thermal energy sources to yield a high-value dispatchable technology that complements rather than competes against low-cost non-dispatchable solar PV and wind


technologies. The main CST technologies, performance characteristics, and research trends are discussed with a specific focus on STE technologies.

Since 2012 GÜNAM has been participating in the EU-SOLARIS project to synergistically integrate 13 European CST research institutions into a single pan-European CST distributed Research Infrastructure. To support this effort in 2015 GÜNAM was awarded an expansion project from the Turkish Ministry of Development that includes creating Turkey’s first dedicated CST Research Laboratory ODAK (Odaklanmış IsılGüneş Enerjisi Araştırma Laboratuvarı). ODAK is being positioned as a smaller indoor research facility focused on lower Technology Readiness Level (TRL) activities in niche areas that complements the existing large outdoor facilities focused on higher TRL activities that currently exist within EU-SOLARIS. The on-going research and envisioned main research lines for ODAK are discussed.

5.4. ATTENDEES PROFILE Approximately 12 academics and 20 graduate students attended the seminar.

5.5. EVALUATION OF THE EVENT BY PARTICIPANT Informal feedback indicated that the seminar was effective at introducing the participants to CST and STE technologies, how STE can be an important complementary technology to wind by enabling greater penetration of wind energy into the grid, and to EU-SOLARIS.


6. CONCLUSIONS The full-day CSP workshop organized as part of the EU-SOLARIS project in 2014 was particularly effective in raising awareness of the importance of STE technologies and the EU-SOLARIS project for Turkey, and introducing STE technologies and opportunities in Turkey to a large and diverse range of stakeholders and actors including researchers, academics, industrial personnel, government ministries, funding agencies, students, and the general public. All of these formal activities were complemented by sustained informal engagement with the Turkish ministries and funding agencies to build support for the EU-SOLARIS project. The strongest indicator of the success of these activities in promoting EU-SOLARIS is METU GÜNAM receiving a national Research Infrastructure project in 2015 to establish Turkey’s first dedicated CST research laboratory with an explicit mission to integrate the laboratory into EU-SOLARIS.

In conclusion, although the two attempts to organize a formal EUS InfoDay Turkey were not successful, the desired outcomes of the InfoDay in terms of raising awareness of and support for EU-SOLARIS were strongly achieved through a diverse and complementary set of activities.


ANNEX A

Tentative Program for the 3rd International Semiconductor Science

and Technology Conference

Note: Only the tentative program for the 3rd day for which the EU-SOLARIS InfoDay was scheduled is included.


ANNEX B

Workshop on Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) 10 February 2014, Ankara/TURKEY


İlknur Yılmaz of the main Turkish scientific funding agency TÜBİTAK

discussing EU funding opportunities.

Manuel Silva PÉREZ, CTAER.


Marcel Bial, ESTELA.

Marcel Bial, ESTELA (Left) and Manuel Silva PÉREZ, CTAER (Right)


ANNEX C

3rd Turkish Solar Electricity Conference and Exhibition (SolarTR3)

Note: Only the program page containing the CSP Session is included.


ANNEX D

International Workshop On Special Topics On Polymeric Composites

Derek BAKER Speaking

Invited Speakers and Organizers

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