Solar Cooling
Singapore: Austria delivers and finances biggest Solar Cooling Installation worldwide
A major order for two Austrian companies was announced at a press conference in the middle of August: Austrian engineering company Solid - represented by its two CEOs Christian Holter (middle) and Franz Radovic (right) - signed a contract with the United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA) to deliver, install and operate a solar heating and cooling installation with 3,900 m2 of collector area in Singapore. The Raiffeisen-Landesbank of Steiermark (RLB-Stmk) will be responsible for financing the investment of around EUR 4 million together with the OeKB, the Oesterreichische Kontrollbank.
Photo: Solid
- Austria
- Broad
- China
- Domestic Hot Water and Heating
- EDB
- Green Mark Platinum certification
- large-scale solar thermal installations
- News
- Oesterreichische Kontrollbank
- Ökotech
- Raiffeisen-Landesbank of Steiermark
- Singapore
- Singapore's Economic Development Board
- Solar Cooling
- Solid
- UAE
- United World College of South East Asia
- UWCSEA
Solar Cooling in North America: “Joint Forces are needed”
“A coordinated effort is needed to develop the solar thermal market in North America,” Lucio Mesquita, Head of Thermosol Consulting in Canada, said during his presentation about “Solar Cooling in North America” at the Intersolar North America in San Francisco in July.
Photo: Thermosol Consulting
Renewables for Heating and Cooling (2007)
This document, prepared by the International Energy Agency, comes as a follow-up of the 2006 seminar “Renewable heating and cooling – from RD&D to deployment technology and policy” aimed at exploring guidelines and policy initiatives to boost technology development and market deployment for renewable heating and cooling (REHC).
The Missing Piece in Climate Policy: Renewable Heating and Cooling in Germany and in the US (2008)
This document released by the Heinrich Böll Foundation goes through the renewable heating and cooling market status and existing policy support both in the US and in Germany.
Overview of RES-H/RES-C Support Options (2009)
The present report was prepared in the framework of the RES-H Policy project (Policy development for improving RES-H/C penetration in European Member States (RES-H Policy)). The aim is to provide an overview of possible policy instruments to support the development of renewable heating (RES-H) and cooling (RES-C) technologies in the different EU Member States.
Austria: EUR 2 Million for Large-Scale, Commercial Applications
Austria shows that even in a generally difficult economic situation, a government can still expand its solar subsidy schemes: On 11 June, the Austrian environmental minister, Niki Berlakovich, introduced a new incentive programme for large-scale solar thermal systems. Photo: National Austrian Environmental Ministry
Dubai: Solar-cooled, 6,000 m2 Office Building
Under the burning sun of Dubai, United Arab Emirates: 161 m2 of vacuum tube collectors by Irish manufacturer Kingspan Renewables provide enough heat for 6 small-size absorption chillers with a 10 kW cooling capacity by Swedish company Climatewell. Photo: Climatewell.
The Sun Shines a Bit More in Härnösand (2010)
This is a document released by the Swedish company Absolicon about the solar thermal and PV project being carried out through a public-private partnership in the small town of Härnösand in Sweden.
The hospital in Härnösand is now an example of energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources for Sweden and Europe. 50 m2 of suntracking solar panels, generating
power and heat simultaneously, were installed on the roof of the hospital.
The Market Potential of Micro-CHCP (2009)
This is a study assessing the market potential of small scale Combined Heating Cooling and Power (CHCP) in several European countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland).
The study is one of the final deliverables of the PolySMART Project (POLYgeneration with advanced small and medium scale thermally driven air-conditioning and refrigeration technology), an integrated project partly funded by the European Commission under 6th Framework Programme.
- Austria
- Awareness Raising
- CHCP
- Combined Heating Cooling and Power
- Czech Republic
- Domestic Hot Water and Heating
- European Commission
- final report
- FP6
- Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
- Germany
- Italy
- Market Potential
- Netherlands
- Poland
- PolySMART Project
- Portugal
- RES 2020
- Solar Cooling
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
Combined Heating, Cooling and Power Generation in the Small Capacity Range (2009)
This brochure explains the objectives of the PolySMART Project (POLYgeneration with advanced small and medium scale thermally driven air-conditioning and refrigeration technology), an integrated project partly funded by the European Commission under 6th Framework Programme.
The project started in 2006 and lasted four years and had as objective to promote and facilitate the market penetration of these technologies, by demonstrating the cost-effective and environmentally friendly solutions it provides.
- Awareness Raising
- CHCP system
- combined cooling heating and power
- District Heating
- EU
- European Economic and Social Committee
- FP6
- Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
- POLYgeneration
- PolySMART Project
- refrigeration technologies
- RES 2020
- small-scale CHCP systems
- solar air-conditioning
- Solar Cooling
- Solar Thermal Power
- Training and Education


















