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European Solar Days: Around 6,600 Events in 17 European Countries
Everything revolves around the sun: 17 European countries participate in the 3rd edition of the European Solar Days from 1 to 16 May 2010. Around 6,600 events are planned for this year’s campaign, involving several hundred thousand citizens at a local level.
Photo: Fotostudio Pflueg
- Austria
- Belgium
- Buildings for the future conference
- Enerplan
- EPIA
- EREC
- ESTIF
- European PhotoVoltaic Industry Association
- European Renewable Energy Council
- European Solar Days 2010
- European Solar Thermal Industry Federation
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Maison de l'Europe
- Netherlands
- News
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Serbia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
France: Dissatisfying Market Development in 2009
Collective systems are on the rise in France: This photo shows the youth hostel of the Association Logis des Jeunes de Provence in the city of Cannes in the South of France. Photo: Enerplan
France: Support Scheme for up to 30 Solar Heating and Cooling Systems
One of the successful show cases of solar cooling applications in France: The vinery in Banyuls, in the south of France, where 130 m2 of vacuum tube collectors supply an absorption chiller with 52 kW cooling capacity since 1991.
Photo: Tecsol
France already set Targets in 2007: Great efforts to reach them
France is the frontrunner in Europe in terms of implementing political frame conditions for solar thermal technology. The government already approved the country's energy law, the so-called “Grenelle de l’Environnement“, in 2007. Richard Loyen, Secretary General of the French Solar Energy Association Enerplan, explained that the law, “more or less anticipated the implementation of the RES Directive” when he spoke during an association workshop organized by the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation (ESTIF) in Brussels last December.
Seizing the Solar Solution: Combating Climate Change through Accelerated Deployment (2009)
This report was published on December 2009, parallel to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit taking place in Copenhagen, to bring authorities' attention to solar energy and the relevant contribution it can provide to reducing GHG emissions.
- Australia
- Awareness Raising
- Canada
- CanSIA
- China
- Enerplan
- EPIA
- ESTELA
- ESTIF
- European Solar Thermal Electricity Association
- European Solar Thermal Industry Federation
- Finance and Incentives
- France
- Germany
- India
- New Zealand
- Poland
- Policy
- RES 2020
- Spain
- Sweden
- Swedish Solar Energy Association
- Swissolar
- Switzerland
- USA
Collective Systems on the Rise in France
The segment of collective systems shows high growth rates in France: The main factor behind this growth are the incentives paid by Ademe, the France Energy Agency. The investment for the solar thermal system on top of this multi-storey building in Paris was €353,000 of which 39 % were subsidised by Ademe. Photo: Enerplan

















