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March 5, 2015
Construction of Solar Collectors for Warm Water – Practical Guide (2014)

WECF, Women of Europe for a Common Future, has published a practical guide explaining how to build a cheap and efficient solar water heating system, using local knowledge and materials and which can be used all year long. The document provides information on the different parts of a solar...
February 28, 2015
Europe: Conferences That Offer Solar Heating and Cooling Sessions in First Months of 2015

Europe’s conference season now starts new after the end of 2014: This week, the World Sustainable Energy Days began in Wels, Austria, with a special focus on Nearly Zero Energy Buildings. Solarthermalworld.org is offering information about all important events on the...
February 10, 2015
New Report on Heat Rejection Systems for Solar Cooling (2015)

This report presents an overview of existing and novel concepts for heat rejection devices in solar cooling systems and recommends which heat rejection measures should be used under different boundary conditions (climate, system concept, etc.). Several components include a performance...
January 20, 2015
European Solar Days 2015, Europe

The next European Solar Days will be celebrated from 1 to 15 May 2015 in several European countries. The campaign raises public awareness and involves several hundred thousand citizens at local level. Pioneer countries such as Austria, Germany, Switzerland, as well as others that successfully...
January 20, 2015
EU Sustainable Energy Week 2015, Europe

The EU Sustainable Energy Week returns for its tenth edition. From 15 to 19 June 2015, the EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) will take place in Brussels and across Europe. Launched in 2006 as an initiative of the European Commission, the EUSEW has become a reference point for public authorities...
December 2, 2014
Europe: Performance and Cost Comparisons of Larger Residential Solar Thermal Systems

As solar thermal installations have been a rare sight at Germany’s multi-family houses, the country’s Institute of New Energy Systems (InES) at the University of Applied Sciences in Ingolstadt took a closer look at Europe’s currently available larger solar thermal...
November 27, 2014
POLYSOL Report Summary (2014)

POLYSOL is an EU-funded project, which started in 2011 under the 7th Framework Programme for Research for SME’s, with the aim to develop a modular all-polymer solar thermal collector for domestic hot water preparation and space heating which could be an alternative to conventional...
November 18, 2014
Europe: Online Database on Large-Scale Solar Heating Plants

The database on Europe’s largest solar heating plants, which can be found on the EU project SDHplus website, dates back to 1997. In the meantime, it has grown to 131 solar heating plants totalling a collector area of 586,000 m² (410 MW_th). The first plants included...
October 31, 2014
Solar Thermal and Concentrated Solar Power Barometer (2014)

This report published by the French organization EurObserv’ER provides an overview of the Solar Thermal and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) markets in Europe in 2013. The first section of the report is dedicated to CSP. After analyzing the global and European markets, the barometer...
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...
June 29, 2014
Europe: 1.19 GW and 15,000 Jobs Lost Since Boom Year of 2008

It’s a disaster. There is not much more to say about the statistics of the solar thermal market in Europe. The newly installed capacity dropped again, this time by 11% compared to the previous year, down to 2.14 GW_th (see the attached document). All large markets...
June 27, 2014
Europe: 10 Years of Solar Keymark – 1,600 Collector and 220 System Certificates

At the beginning of June, the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation celebrated the 10th anniversary of Solar Keymark at its Intersolar Europe booth in Munich, Germany. Solar Keymark is a well-established certification scheme and label all across Europe and has been viewed as an...

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