Solar Energy Activities in IEA Countries 2005
This 2005 report on solar energy activities in IEA (International Energy Agency) Solar Heating and Cooling Programme (SHC) countries provides an overview of national activities and key trends of a total of 13 countries.
Detailed information is offered on national solar activities, notably on the status of government policies, funding levels, R&D, technology advances, and commercial development. Each report further concludes with an outlook for solar over the next five years in that country.
Main conclusions indicate a general growth in the use of solar energies. Australia, China, New Zealand and some European countries possess the most dynamic markets for flat-plate and evacuated tube collectors worldwide with an annual average growth rate, between 1999 and 2004, of 25% in China and Taiwan, 19% in Australia and New Zealand and 13% in Europe.
- Australia
- Austria
- Awareness Raising
- Canada
- country reports
- Denmark
- evacuated tube collectors
- Finance and Incentives
- flat-plate tube collectors
- France
- Germany
- growth
- IEA
- IEA SHC
- International Energy Agency
- International Energy Agency’s Solar Heating and Cooling Programme
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Policy
- Portugal
- RES 2020
- Solar Thermal Power
- Standards
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Solar Energy activities in IEA countries
The 2005 report is updated. The most recent information is now available at the website: http://www.iea-shc.org/countries/index.html. The market information is available in the yearly publication Solar heating world wide. http://www.iea-shc.org/solarenergy/statistics.htm