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July 19, 2019
Highly efficient industrial solar heat showcase in southwest France

In mid-June, a start-up business inaugurated the largest industrial solar heat plant to date in France, a 4,213 m² (3.4 MW_th) flat plate collector system, which supplies heat to the Condat paper mill in southwest of the country. Owned by the Lecta Group, the mill is one of the...
May 31, 2019
Solar Cooling at Intersolar 2019

This year’s Intersolar Europe, which took place in Munich, featured a conference session titled Solar, the new cool? Among the speakers at this solar cooling event, held on 15 May, were Daniel Mugnier and Uli Jakob, former members of the IEA SHC research platform New Generation...
December 21, 2017
Project partners guarantee SDH yield

15 December saw the inauguration of the first installation supported by the subsidy scheme for large-scale solar thermal projects in France. The 2,340 m² collector field by German manufacturer KBB Kollektorbau has since been feeding into a biomass district heating network of Châteaubriant,...
November 23, 2017
SHC 2017 / Daniel Mugnier: Solar Cooling in the MENA region

In the gulf region, most of the electricity is consumed for cooling. Air conditioning driven by PV or solar thermal collectors could save the energy demand, leaving more fuel for export. Daniel Mugnier says, the Solar Heating and Cooling Conference 2017 in Abu Dhabi might be the beginning of a...
November 19, 2017
EU Funding for Solutions to Decarbonise Heating and Cooling Market

A search for ‘solar thermal’ in a recently published 195-page document titled Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy will not return encouraging results (see the attached document). The publication by the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020 shows only 6 entries in total. “Solar thermal is...
July 14, 2017
IEA SHC: Free Pre-Sizing Tool for Solar Heating and Cooling

In 2015, Task 48 – Quality Assurance & Support Measures for Solar Cooling – came to an end. One of the activities of this IEA Solar Heating & Cooling Programme task was the creation of PISTACHE, a tool for professionals who need to pre-size solar cooling, heating and...
November 23, 2016
Qatar: Gulf Region’s Sustainability Experts Meet IEA’s Solar Heating and Cooling Specialists

About 400 industry stakeholders met in the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Doha in early November to attend the first Green Expo Forum organised by the Gulf Organisation for Research and Development (GORD). The three-day conference offered presentations by experts from Gulf countries and the IEA...
April 30, 2016
IEA SHC: Industry Workshop in Spain Shows Solar Cooling’s Global Opportunities

The latest R&D developments in solar cooling presented during a workshop in Madrid, Spain, on 11 April sparked great interest among the attendees from the international air conditioning industry. Held at the headquarters of the Spanish Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving,...
December 29, 2015
Solar Cooling: Results Diagram Directs Stakeholders to Content of Interest

The best solar research results are of little use if they are not distributed and known to stakeholders from the industry, planning departments or public authorities involved in the related field work. This becomes an even more important point if the aim of the research is to “...
December 22, 2015
France: Monitoring Innovations – Rebuilding Investor Confidence

“The French market has been suffering from inadequately performing solar thermal installations made in the boom years of 2009 to 2011 because of untrained installers,” said Edwige Gautier, Project Coordinator at Enerplan, the Union of Professionals in Solar Energy, during her...
December 7, 2015
Meet Where the Continents Meet: SHC2015 in Istanbul

Two continents meet in Istanbul, in a metropolis of 15 million. More than 230 researchers and industry representatives from five continents used this strategic spot for their participation in SHC2015, a high-level conference which took place at the beginning of December and focused on...
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...