Recent developments in solar photovoltaic, concentrated solar power, and wind technologies aimed at improving efficiency, competitiveness, and integration into the energy system. This topic will address innovations in design, operation, digitalization, associated storage, and hybridization, as well as solutions to maximize the performance, stability, service life, and resistance to fatigue and fracture of these renewable sources in various application environments. Likewise, contributions focused on materials science and engineering, structural design
New renewable technologies and innovative strategies aimed at diversifying the energy mix with the lowest possible environmental impact. Solutions related to biomass, geothermal, marine energy, and other emerging renewables will be discussed, focusing on life cycle sustainability, ecosystem protection, social acceptance, and compatibility between energy deployment and environmental preservation.
Scientific and technological advances in the various routes for renewable hydrogen production, with special attention to efficiency, scalability, and cost reduction. This topic will include developments in electrolysis, thermochemical processes, biological routes, and other emerging alternatives. Special emphasis will be placed on the development of new materials (catalysts, membranes), manufacturing process engineering, and the industrial scaling of equipment, as well as its integration with renewable sources, validation in pilot environments, and projection towards large-scale industrial applications.
Technological solutions to facilitate safe, efficient, and economically viable hydrogen storage and transport throughout the entire value chain. Among others, advances in compression, liquefaction, storage materials science and engineering, chemical carriers, logistical infrastructures, and distribution networks will be addressed. Special relevance will be given to works focused on structural integrity, fracture engineering, fatigue, and hydrogen embrittlement phenomena, as well as advanced manufacturing processes for pressure vessels and pipelines, and the main challenges associated with safety, regulation, operation, and integration into energy and industrial markets.
Technologies and processes aimed at obtaining key renewable molecules for the defossilization-decarbonization of industry in general, transport, and chemistry. This topic will include the production of synthetic fuels, ammonia, methanol, and other renewable energy vectors and raw materials, highlighting synthesis routes, the use of renewable hydrogen and captured CO₂, and their role in the progressive replacement of fossil-derived products.
Applications of hydrogen and other renewable molecules in electricity generation through advanced electrochemical technologies. Advances in fuel cells, advanced materials science and engineering, manufacturing processes and cell joining technologies, performance improvement, durability and degradation mechanisms, integration into energy systems, and stationary and mobile applications will be presented, highlighting their contribution to flexibility, demand management, and the defossilization-
Analysis of the economic and operational factors that determine the viability of technologies for the energy transition. This topic will address strategies to optimize initial investment, reduce operation and maintenance costs, improve project bankability, and strengthen long-term profitability, incorporating real experiences, business models, digitalization, in-service failure analysis, asset structural integrity management, and an industrial vision.