O Futuro é Hoje : Book of Communications of the XIX Iberian Congress and XV Ibero-American Congress on Solar Energy

Head of the Renewable Energies Chair at the University of Évora and Coordinator of INIESC – the Portuguese National Research Infrastructure in Solar Energy Concentration, has a 20+ years research career in solar energy technologies and applications. As Coordinator of INIESC – the Portuguese National Research Infrastructure in Solar Energy Concentration, aims at the strategic development of these research activities in line with the development of this research facility. Part of the ERIC Infrastructure EU-SOLARIS (ESFRI), its development aims at the demonstration of a solar energy driven Energy Transition energy system, capable of producing and storing different energy vectors: electricity, heat, hydrogen or renewable fuels and water – providing their inter-conversion and dispatching upon demand. Aiming at enhacing the conditions for the development of excellence research conditions in both UEvora RE Chair and INIESC Infrastructure, Pedro Horta is the Coordinator of two Horizon Europe Twinning projects, assuring high-level cooperation with DLR (Germany) and ENEA (Italy) in the field of solar applications with molten salts (SALTOpower) and CIEMAT (Spain), ITCanarias (Spain) and UNIPAlermo (Italy) in the field of solar desalination and water treatment (Sol2H2O).