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Thailand Subsidy Scheme One of 38 in Incentive Programme Database
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The
number of Thailand’s subsidised commercial solar thermal systems is
increasing year by year. German engineering company Aschoff Solar has
just commissioned a 2,000 m2 collector field on a local
leather factory, supported by the country’s Department of Alternative
Energy Development and Efficiency. If you want to know more about the
requirements of phase VI of the subsidy scheme in Thailand, simply go to
the database of incentive programmes.
Altogether, the database includes 38 support schemes in 26 countries.
Each scheme shows a table containing key information, such as target
groups, duration, eligible technologies, finance providers and maximum
subsidy levels. For example, Cyprus has just approved a relaunch of its
grant programme, which will also subsidise solar cooling installations
and the Eco Fund in Slovenia has just allocated EUR 20 million to
support solar systems in single- and multi-family houses. Please contact us if one of your national programmes is missing in our database. Regarding financial schemes in the USA, please refer to www.dsireusa.org.
Best regards,
Editorial team
Find the database of incentive programmes here
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Hungary: New Money for Commercial and Public Solar Thermal Systems
by Frank Stier
Since the
end of 2011, the Hungarian government has been asking the
European Commission (EC) to allow the transfer of funds not spent within
the Transport Operational Programme to the Environment and Energy
Operational Programme. The EC finally agreed in September 2012 and the
government was able to announce the first tenders a few months later.
The National Development Agency presented five different tenders which
support renewable energies, including the installation of solar thermal
systems in 2013. The target groups in all five cases were projects of
enterprises, public institutions or non-governmental organizations.
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Norway: Solar Collectors Support District Heating
by Eva Augsten
In
November 2012, the Norwegian power supplier Akershus Energi celebrated
the inauguration of its new 13,000 m² solar district heating plant in
the town of Lillestrøm close to Oslo. Built by Danish company Sunmark,
it is the largest solar thermal plant in Norway to date. The plant is to
deliver 20 to 30% of the heat required by the district heating network
during the summer time. All year round, it is to produce 4.2 GWh of
solar heat (323 kWh/m² of collector area), which equals little more than
3% of the network’s total heat supply.
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Czech Republic: Environment Ministry Proposes New Subsidy Scheme
by Vladislava Adamenkova
Now
the debate in the Czech Republic is about whether to revive the
national subsidy scheme. In November 2012, the Czech Minister of
Environment, Tomáš Chalupa, introduced a draft for a so-called Nová
Zelená Úsporám or New Green Savings programme. The aim of the programme
is to increase the energy efficiency of private and public buildings,
such as nurseries, retirement homes, cultural buildings or sports
centres. Both private households and municipalities would profit from
grants financed through the sales of Assigned Amount Units (AAUs) in
emission trading.
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Southern Africa: SOLTRAIN's Demonstration Systems Achieve up to 800 kWh/m²a
by Stephanie Banse
The
Austrian Development Agency (ADA) has agreed to sponsor also the second
phase of the successful Southern African Solar Thermal Training and
Demonstration Initiative (SOLTRAIN).
At the beginning of December, the project partners from Austria,
Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe met to thrash out
precisely how to implement SOLTRAIN 2. The picture shows a test facility
at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa - established in phase 1
of the project. In SOLTRAIN 1 seven systems had also been equipped with
measuring instruments and were monitored for at least twelve months.
The specific annual collector yield was between 302 kWh/m²a for a 99 m²
pumped system with an 8,000 litre storage tank and 800 kWh/m²a for an
indirect thermosiphon system with 4 m² of collector area and a 300 litre
storage tank.
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Sweden: Vacuum Tube Produces Heat and Cold Depending on Day or Night
by Bärbel Epp
The
latest development of Swedish Company ClimateWell is called CoolStore
and can be integrated into a collector casing. The former producer of
absorption chillers has completely altered its product range to become a
component supplier for boilers and air-conditioners for vehicles. The
new product, however, has still not been entirely uncovered, because “we
do not want to disclose too much yet”, explains ClimateWell’s CEO, Per
Olofsson. The company integrated the triple-stage absorption cooling
cycle into an all-glass evacuated tube. The cold side of the tube
delivers tap water heating during the day and air-conditioning during
the night.
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USA: New US Solar Heating and Cooling Alliance
by Bärbel Epp
A
strong voice for the solar thermal industry: that is the aim of the new
US Solar Heating and Cooling Alliance (SHC Alliance), a division of the
Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). SEIA announced the new
elected board in a press release on 19 February 2013. The US Solar
Heating and Cooling Council which governs the SHC Alliance consists of
five persons. First, there are Chairman Mike Healy from Skyline
Innovations, Vice Chairman Matt Carlson from Sunnovations and Treasurer
Eileen Prado from the Solar Rating and Certification Corporation (SRCC).
The other two positions will rotate and are currently held by Les
Nelson, International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials
(IAPMO), and Ole Pilgaard from Heliodyne.
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