To further facilitate the exchange and collaboration in CSP and related technologies, the CSTA, Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, China Renewable Energy Society, and Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering plan to jointly host the 2025 China CSP Conference in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, in mid-August.
Recently, Dr. Christoph Richter, Secretary-General of the International Energy Agency's Solar Power and Chemical Energy Organization (SolarPACES), confirmed his participation in the conference and will share the international R&D progress of concentrated solar power technologies.
Expert Profile
Christoph Richter
Christoph Richter studied Chemistry at the University of Cologne and finished with a Ph. D. in Physical Chemistry with studies of membrane carrier transport processes for gas separation in 1993. He started then as Project Manager at the DLR (German Aerospace Center) department at the Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA-CIEMAT) in Spain, the major test center for R&D in concentrating solar high temperature technologies, developing and managing a facility for solar photochemical fine chemical synthesis, and furthermore working in research on solar photocatalytic detoxification of contaminated waters. Since 1996 he moved to studies on power plant technology, including environmental impact assessment, thermal storage development and cooling of power plants optimization. He started in 2004 as Operating Agent for Task 3 of the International Energy Agency´s Technology Collaboration Program Solar PACES (Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems) and in March 2008 took over the position of Executive Secretary of this international network. One of his main responsibilities here is the organization of the annual SolarPACES conference the leading annual event in the CSP sector. He is author or co-author of numerous publications and presentations in this field, most recently as editor of the section on solar thermal energy in Springer´s Encyclopedy of Sustainability Technologies.