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May 7, 2018
First Spanish solar district heating system for 12,000 families

In February, Alcalá Ecoenergías signed a deal to construct a district heating system powered by solar and biomass in Alcalá de Henares, a city in Spain. The agreement between the local company and the municipal government will lead to one of the country’s first-ever large-scale solar...
April 27, 2018
Solar cooling demand on the rise in Italy, Spain and the Middle East

Sorption chillers may still be a niche market, but Europe’s manufacturers reported rising demand for solar thermal cooling in Italy, Spain and the Middle East in 2017. Solar thermal numbers are on the rise because of three factors: the potential to reduce power consumption, including peak...
April 12, 2018
International Conference on Solar Technologies & Hybrid Mini Grids to improve energy access, Palma de Mallorca

The second International Conference on Solar Technologies and Hybrid Mini-Grids to improve energy access will take place at the University of the Balearic Islands in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on October 17 to 19, 2018. The main objective of the conference is to provide an opportunity for an exchange...
March 19, 2018
World’s largest flat plate collector manufacturers in 2017

The 2017 ranking of the world’s largest flat plate collector producers clearly shows the market dominance of Chinese companies. Even second-ranked Greenonetec, an Austrian collector manufacturer, is now majority-owned by the Chinese-based Haier Group. The...
March 6, 2018
Spain’s 2017 figures show increase in collector production despite declining market

2017 saw the Spanish solar thermal market dropping by 5 % to 201,505 m², or 141 MW_th, but surpassing 4 million m2 overall, totalling 4,106,195 m², or 2.87 GW_th. The main reason for the downward trend had been the poor showing of regional support...
January 27, 2018
Three ways to read European market statistics

There is more than one way to read 2016’s market statistics published by Solar Heat Europe about 2 months ago. One could emphasise the great achievements made in reducing emissions and creating jobs in the solar heating and cooling sector in Europe. One could likewise point to Denmark as a...
December 22, 2017
French PVT market is picking up

The IEA’s Solar Heating and Cooling Programme will create its own international research platform on PVT systems in January 2018. Researchers and industry representatives from 13 countries so far will then start evaluating new PVT systems for HVAC solutions. This IEA SHC task, which is...
December 8, 2017
Maintenance as New Business Option in Spain

Recently, maintenance has gained popularity among Spanish solar thermal installers, according to the country’s national solar industry association, ASIT. Its general secretary, Pascual Polo, has been working to encourage the association’s members and end users to have solar thermal...
November 29, 2017
Spain: Marketing Activities Foster SHIP Market

The Spanish market for Industrial Solar Heat (SHIP) is still small: Currently, there are only three installations ongoing across the country (see screen shot). Now, the Spanish Solar Concentra platform intends to support market development by identifying 130 potential industrial SHIP...
November 14, 2017
Spain: Stakeholder Platform Solplat to Promote New Applications

On 4 October 2017, the Spanish Ministry of Economy hosted the first general meeting of the newly created Technology Platform on Low Temperature Solar Thermal, Solplat. Funded by the ministry and promoted by Spain’s solar association ASIT, the umbrella platform was created to help companies...
October 31, 2017
IEA´s Renewables Outlook 2017-2022

The IEA’s Renewables 2017 market report was launched in London in early October. The document, which had been called Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report...
October 23, 2017
World Bank Supports Solar Concentrating Solutions for Industry

On 18 October 2017, speakers from three continents joined a webinar initiated by the World Bank and the Clean Technology Fund and hosted by Spanish-based consultancy ATA Insights to talk about opportunities for concentrating solar thermal in industry. Martin Haagen from Industrial Solar, a...

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