Norway

Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro ASA announced its first clients to order aluminium tubes for the production of absorbers in a press release at the end of January. In the press release, the corporation named German collector manufacturer Solarbayer GmbH and Polish collector manufacturer Hewalex as the first to do so.
Photo: Hydro

NEREC 2011 will be held in Lillestrøm, near Oslo, Norway, from 12 - 14 September. Arranged by Norway Trade Fairs in close cooperation with OREEC (Oslo Renewable and Energy Cluster), the event includes both a conference and an exhibition. Leading global experts will focus the spotlight on such important topics as energy policy, energy effectiveness, climate technology, and – not to mention the development of renewable energy sources like wind, solar, water, biomass and biofuel.

OBOS, the largest Nordic building cooperative, has become a major shareholder of Norwegian solar company Aventa AS. The latter is specialized in the production of solar thermal collectors made entirely of high-performance polymers. The photo shows Aventa collectors mounted on the south-facing wall of a building in Oslo.
Photo: Aventa

NEREC 2010 will be held in Lillestrøm, near Oslo, Norway, from 28 - 29 September. Arranged by Norway Trade Fairs in close cooperation with OREEC (Oslo Renewable and Energy Cluster), the event includes both a conference and an exhibition. Leading global experts will focus the spotlight on such important topics as energy policy, energy effectiveness, climate technology, and – not to mention the development of renewable energy sources like wind, solar, water, biomass and biofuel.

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).

This report provides a brief summary of the technological status of solar thermal technology in Norway.

The report discusses if the use of energy for heating purposes will be possible for Norway in the near future. The utilisation of solar energy to supplement the energy supply has a relatively small distribution in Norway, compared to other Nordic countries such as Denmark and Sweden.

This document is the final report of the project "Solar Thermal Components Adapted to Common Building Standards", involving different universities in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Latvia (Technical University of Denmark, SERC, University of Oslo, Riga Technical University).

This prototype of a plastic absorber by Norwegian company Solarnor was never produced in series. The company filed for bankruptcy at the beginning of the year.
Photo: Solarnor

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

Since 2008, the Norwegian government has offered a case-by-case subsidy for sports facilities or businesses, which would like to replace their old heating system by a new one receiving its energy from renewable sources. The programme itself is run by Enova, a public enterprise owned by the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. Support is granted after a financial evaluation of every project applying for a subsidy.