Co2 Emissions

This document details the construction of a solar thermal water heating system on the Riverside Correctional Facility in Philadelphia, PA.

The installation is a rooftop boiler setup. The cost of the system was $665,000; and it is estimated that over the 25 year life span of the equipment there will be an avoidance of 1 million pounds of carbon emissions that would have otherwise occurred. The project should fully pay for itself back due to energy cost savings in a decade.

This report, produced by Greenpeace International and EREC (European Renewable Energy Council), explores possible scenarios of energy use in Latin America.

The report develops a sustainable energy pathway up to 2050, including energy technologies such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, among others.

Nowadays, renewable energy sources account for 27% of Latin America’s primary energy demand. Biomass is used for heating and constitutes the main renewable energy source, followed by hydro power.

This presentation was created by David Berry of Western Resource Advocates (WRA), a non-profit environmental law and policy organization. It provides information on climbing CO2 levels in the atmosphere, how this will affect the future climate of the American Southwest, and the role solar thermal can play in moderating rising greenhouse gas emissions.

This report was prepared by the Science Applications International Corporation and is a survey of the Canadian solar thermal industry covering the year 2008.

The results of the survey show continued growth in the Canadian market and also highlights a few key areas of interest.

This report was prepared by SFEnvironment and explains the basics of solar water heating as they relate to residents of San Francisco, CA.

SFEnvironment describes in detail the basics of solar water heating technology, what is required in terms of system sizing, cost and special incentives provided by the California Solar Initiative (CSI).

The documents summary lists several benefits of using solar thermal technology for domestic hot water heating; creation of new jobs in the solar energy sector, cost savings and reduction of carbon emissions.

Author: SFEnvironment

This is a presentation of the Managing Director of the Danish Board of District Heating (DBDH), Mr. Jes B. Christensen on the district heating sector in Denmark.

The presentation gives detailed information on the Danish district heating market in Denmark, since the first years in the 70s until nowadays, with references to the legal framework and the government incentive schemes.

These slides also show how district heating has helped reduce CO2 emissions and make Denmark a key example for energy self-sufficiency in Europe.

This study from 2007 provided by the NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) offers a technical analysis of the solar water heating (SWH) potential in reducing fossil fuel consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. residential and commercial buildings.

This 2007 research paper explains how solar thermal could be used in the production of renewable hydrogen. It acknowledges that for achieving a hydrogen economy in the first place, the basis will be the use of fossil fuels. However, a further step would be that the conventional production processes will have to be substituted by renewable technologies.

This report from 2005, published by Solar Heating and Cooling Programme (SHC) of the International Energy Agency (IEA) relates the solar thermal capacity previously installed in important markets worldwide. It further reports the contribution of solar plants to the supply of energy and the CO2 emissions reduction, resulting from operating these plants.