Vol.51 No.5 (Serial No.289) 2025

  • Prefatory note : Now is the time to promote solar power generation ! / Yukinori KUWANO
  • JSES 50th Anniversary : Future Prospects of Solar Energy for a Sustainable Society
    • 〈A greeting of the president〉On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the JSES‘s Founding / Shinji WAKAO
    • 〈Congratulatory Messages from Past Chairman and others〉/ Iwane FUJII, Izumi USHIYAMA, Yoshiyuki ISHIHARA, Mitsuhiro UDAGAWA, Hironori ARAKAWA, Yoshihisa TAWADA, Nobuyuki SUNAGA, Kenro MITSUDA, Atsushi AKISAWA, Shigekazu KAWAGOE
    • 〈From each section〉
      • Solar Thermal : Technological Trends and Future Outlook for Air-Collecting Solar Thermal Utilization / Hyunwoo ROH
      • Solar Thermal : Utilization of High-temperature Concentrated Solar Thermal Energy / Tatsuya KODAMA
      • Solar Thermal : Solar heat utilization in solar thermal collectors using liquid / Hitoshi HARA
      • Photovoltaic : Harmonization with photovoltaic systems and power grid / Yusuke MIYAMOTO
      • Photochemistry and Biomass : A Decade of Photochemistry and Biomass –Reflections and Future Horizons / Akira HORIBATA
      • Solar Architecture : The direction solar architecture will take over the next 50 years / Isamu OHTA
      • Wind & Hydro : Outlook of Wind-Hydro Divisions / Shigeo YOSHIDA
      • 100% RE : Toward the goal of the society with 100% renewable energy– Future perspective of 100% renewable energy section – / Atsushi AKISAWA
      • Local CO2 Reduction : Pathways to Regional Decarbonization / Kenji ITAKA
    • 〈JSES 50th Anniversary Roundtable discussion〉Challenges for a sustainable society of Japan and expectations for JSES / Jindan CUI, Daisuke SATO, Takahiro TAKAMATSU, Kohei TERASHIMA, Keita MIZUNO, Mika YOSHINAGA
    • 〈History of JSES〉A Decade of Progress in the Japan Solar Energy Society
  • Research paper
    • Consideration of Optimal Design of Natural Exergy Utilization System -Construction of a computational model for a solar heat utilization system and its sensitivity analysis- / Koichi ISAWA, SungKi SONG
    • Day-ahead Planning and Shortfall Risk Assessment in the Balancing Market for Solar Power Plants / Jindan CUI, Xue FANG, Bo JIE, Takashi OOZEKI, Yuzuru UEDA
  • JSES Report
    • Report of JSES 2025 conference for young researchers / Noboru YAMADA
  • Introduction of a Laboratory / National Institute of Technology, Nagaoka College, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Energy Laboratory
  • My memoirs of the Sunshine Project : Development of grid interconnection techniques for PV power generation, which opened a way to the massive penetration / Hiromu KOBAYASHI
  • Monologue from Board Members : Would you like to spend more time in nature? / Hironobu MATSUO
  • News from JSES Committee
    • JSES Report
    • JSES Announcement