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January 19, 2015
Contracting Models for Solar Thermally Driven Cooling and Heating Systems (2014)

This report highlights new perspectives of financing large solar thermal cooling projects with the objective to expand the use of solar cooling technologies in the public and private sectors through an improved understanding of the approaches adopted by contracting models. The work was...
January 5, 2015
China: First Chinese Solar Cooling Conference to Take Place in Shanghai in March

This spring, a major event for solar cooling is going to take place in Shanghai: From 23 to 27 March 2015, the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) will jointly organise a Solar Cooling Week in the city. The week is going to start off with...
December 5, 2014
SHC Solar Update Newsletter (2014)

Don't miss reading the latest SHC Solar Update newsletter. This issue highlights China, work on solar cooling, solar and urban planning, solar and heat pumps and the new global certification network plus other news and the latest free SHC...
November 5, 2014
France: Promising Monitoring Results of Solar-Cooling Hybrid Strategy

During the Task 48 meeting in Garching, Germany, at the end of September 2014, Daniel Mugnier, Head of Task 48 of the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling programme, presented the monitoring results of a promising demonstration project which integrates solar cooling technology into an existing...
October 28, 2014
Sweden: Novel Solar Cooling Installation Boasts Average Electrical COP of 10.6

The first large-scale system which incorporates the newly developed CoolStore chiller by Swedish company ClimateWell was commissioned in June 2014 and has since been operating flawlessly at Swedish coffee producer Löfbergs in Karlstad, Sweden. In the middle of October, ClimateWell organised...
September 1, 2014
Singapore: Second Largest Solar Cooling Installation Worldwide

The solar thermal collector field with 3,900 m2 at the United World College (UWC) in Singapore powers a 1,500 kW cooling unit, which is based on a single-effect lithium bromide absorption chiller. The United World Colleges are international schools with an emphasis on social and...
September 1, 2014
USA: Largest Solar Cooling System Worldwide

It is an ideal location for solar cooling use: Scottsdale, a US city in the Greater Phoenix area in Arizona enjoys an average of 312 days of sunshine every year. Between May and September, temperatures rise above 38 °C and can even reach 46 °C on a hot day. This is where in July 2011,...
August 29, 2014
USA: S.O.L.I.D. Operates 3.4 MWth Cooling System as ESCO in Arizona

It is an ideal location for solar cooling use: Scottsdale, a US city in the Greater Phoenix area in Arizona enjoys an average of 312 days of sunshine every year. Between May and September, temperatures rise above 38°C and can even reach 46°C on a hot day. This is where in July...
August 28, 2014
South Africa: Fresnel Collectors Keep It Cool in MTN’s Server Rooms

Since June 2014, a Fresnel collector field with 242 kW_th has been feeding into the district cooling system of the MTN Group at its headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa. MTN, which has more than 200 million customers, as well as subsidiaries in 22 countries across Africa...
July 1, 2014
Germany: SunOyster’s New Approach to Combine PV and Solar Heat

SunOyster Systems (SOS) based in Halstenbek, a town near Hamburg, Germany, has developed a new technology for the combined generation of solar heat and electricity (PVT). The first six SunOyster units are currently on their way to the Chinese town of Shuouzhou, 400 km west of...
June 30, 2014
REN 21: Solar Thermal Contributes Significantly to Hot Water Production

According to REN21’s Renewables 2014 Global Status Report, which was published at the UN-hosted Sustainable Energy for All Forum in New York at the beginning of June, solar thermal technologies contribute significantly to hot water production in many countries and increasingly to...
May 17, 2014
India: First Stakeholder Workshop for Solar Thermal Roadmap

Whereas India shows enormous demand for thermal energy in the industry and for cooking, solar thermal has so far only covered 0.2 % of the total heating and cooling need. Therefore it is urgent to scale up the use of decentralised solar thermal technologies. Supported by the Shakti...

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