Front-runners of solar district heating
Submitted by Baerbel Epp on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 13:31.
Feeding directly into the district heating system of the Austrian city of Graz: The collector fields are mounted on four different hall roofs belonging to the AEVG, a municipal waste disposal company.
Photo: S.O.L.I.D. / Oberländer
The interest in solar district heating and cooling in Europe is increasing. In the last two years nine solar thermal installations of this type with more than 1,000 m2 have started operating in Denmark, Austria and Germany. Together with Sweden, these are the major markets in Europe as far as solar thermal district heating is concerned. This article gives an overview over the realised projects. Download article District heating.pdf
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Successful recycling of large-scale solar collectors
A solar district heating plant with 5 500 sqm of large module collectors was put into operation in 1989 in Falkenberg, Sweden. The plant was in operation for 18 years supplying about 30 GWh heat to the City of Falkenberg. Due to misc. reasons the plant was dismantled in 2008. The recycled remains amounted to 40 tons aluminium, 2 tons copper and 1,4 ton iron metal, as well as considerable amounts of glass and rock wool.
J-O Dalenbäck