market statistics

As in previous years, ESTIF, the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation, has issued this publication with detailed data and numbers about the solar thermal market in the EU 27 and Switzerland in 2010.

In 2010, the European solar thermal market totalled 2.586 MWth (3.694,940 m²) of newly installed capacity, decreasing by an estimated 13% in comparison with 2009 numbers.

Click here to see the 2010 edition of this publication, referring to 2009 market data.

This report issued by the International Energy Agency (IEA), gives a detailed overview of the policies in place at that time regarding the R&D and integration policies of solar thermal products for the buildings sector.

This report prepared by the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation let us know about the solar thermal market evolution in 2009.

Author: ESTIF
Date: 2010
Pages: 9
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The German solar thermal market more than doubled in 2008. According to the solar industry association BSW-Solar and the heating industry association BDH; 2.1 million m² of new collector area (1.5 GW_th) were installed on German roofs last year (940,000 m² = 658 MW_th in 2007). This proves to be a great success after the downswing in 2007, when the German solar thermal market experienced a 40 % decrease in collector area installations.

This Report focuses on the 8 participating countries’ markets to the SOLAIR project and provides a market review and analysis of small and medium-sized solar air-conditioning (SAC) appliances.

This Report begins with a comparison with all countries markets’ status quo that is presented in a very digestible format of graphs and key data. The main section of the Report looks in depth at each country and provides an overview based on the following issues:

This 36-month project aims to encourage the emergence of a sustainable solar thermal market using the Guaranteed Solar Results (GSR) procedure in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

The documents on this website provide an analysis of the local situations in each country. The document looks in detail at the Solar Hot Water Market before mapping sectoral issues (e.g. in the hotel and housing sectors) in the countries.

This article offers an outline to the solar district heating market in Europe and in particular outlines the trend to diurnal storage and heat-driven cooling applications.

A SWOT analysis of the industry points to technical and non-technical barriers for market development, but highlights that among others combined heating and cooling offer advantages to the sector.

The greatest potential for market development is foreseen for Germany, France, UK, Poland, Netherlands and Belgium.

Information on centralised solar heating plants is also included.

The US-American domestic solar heating and cooling market grew by 31 % in 2007, after the rapid climb of 77 % in 2006. These are figures from the annual statistics of the Energy Information Administration (EIA), which publishes the official energy statistics of the U.S. Government. In total 150,000 m² of collector area was shipped last year (against 111,000 m² in 2006). The EIA assumes that only 2 % of the total shipment was exported last year; the home market volume was thus 147,000 m².