Solar Heat Worldwide- 2014 edition (2014)

The IEA SHC annual statistics report, Solar Heat Worldwide, provides data from 58 countries, representing more than 63% of the world's population and over 95% of the global solar thermal market. The 2014 edition reports on 2012 data.  With a growth of 9.4% in 2012, the installed capacity of solar collectors reached 269 GW_th. The collectors provided 228 TWh of solar thermal energy, thus saving 79 million tons of CO₂ emissions. The vast majority of the total 2012 capacity was in China (180.4 GW_th) and Europe (42.8 GW_th), which together accounted for 83% of the total capacity.

Authors: Franz Mauthner and Werner Weiss

Date: 1 October 2014

Pages: 61

Original Source Link: http://www.iea-shc.org/solar-heat-worldwide

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