Annual Report 2006 - Plataforma Solar de Almería

GENERAL PRESENTATION
1.3 Human and Economic Resources
The scientific and technical commitments of the PSA and the workload this
involves are undertaken by a team of 112 persons that as of December 2006
made up the permanent staff lending its services to the Plataforma Solar. In
addition to this staff, there is a significant flow of personnel in the form of
visiting researchers, fellowships and grants handled by the Office of the Director.
Of the 112 persons who work daily for the PSA, 55 are CIEMAT personnel,
21 of whom are located in the main offices in Madrid.
In addition, the 12 persons who make up the DLR permanent delegation as
a consequence of its current commitments to the Spanish-German Agreement
also make an important contribution.
The rest of the personnel are made up of a no less important group given
the center’s characteristics. These are the personnel working for service contractors
in operation, maintenance and cleaning in the various different facilities.
Of these 32 persons, 14 work in operation and 18 in maintenance.
The auxiliary services contract accounts for 8 administrative personnel and
secretaries, 2 IT technicians and 5 security guards.
Figure 1.3 Distribution of PSA permanent personnel as of December 2006
The effort CIEMAT has made for the last several years to provide the PSA
with the necessary human resources should be emphasized. This continued
effort is allowing us to undertake our task with greater assurance of success.
The PSA budget has an upward trend, in large part due to higher revenues.
Income from the European Commission has been an outstanding contribution
of our longstanding partner DLR. A good number of the new joint projects
proposed to the EC have allowed the DLR to continue at the PSA in a new
relationship based on specific projects, and the fruit of this success is the relevance
of the German delegation at the PSA.
The significantly increased number of projects financed by the National
Plan for R&D reflects a growing decision for renewable energies and in particular,
for solar concentrating technologies.
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