On March 25, during the 110th Executive Committee Meeting of SolarPACES held in Portugal, Dr. Wang Zhifeng was elected Vice-Chair of the organization.
Dr. Wang Zhifeng is a Researcher at the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), Chairman of the China Solar Thermal Alliance, and Director of the Concentrating Solar Power Committee of the Chinese Renewable Energy Society.
This marks the fourth time Dr. Wang Zhifeng has been elected Vice-Chair of SolarPACES, following his successful campaigns and elections in 2014, 2016, and 2024.
SolarPACES is one of several Technology Collaboration Programmes (TCP) organized in a framework of the International Energy Agency (IEA). It operates as an international network of stakeholders, mostly research institutions, in concentrating solar power (CSP) refining a form of solar power that is dispatchable on demand because it includes thermal energy storage. SolarPACES was created in 1977 and today is increasingly involved in furthering the development of high temperature concentrating solar thermal (CST) to decarbonize industrial processes such as cement making, or to perform solar thermochemistry for the production of solar fuels.