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December 15, 2016
IEA Medium-Term Report: Solar Heating and Cooling Not on Track for 2 °C Scenario

The IEA’s Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report or MTRMR 2016 again includes a chapter on renewable heating and cooling – and it’s growing in size. The 282-page document published from Singapore on 25 October analyses on 47 pages the current and future market development of four...
November 11, 2016
Germany: “Performance-based incentives for all solar thermal plants”

In spring 2015, Germany´s Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA) introduced a performance-based incentive for solar heating as an alternative to the scheme offering incentives based on collector area. Recently published statistics have shown the new programme to grant...
October 30, 2016
Romania: Hike in Green House Programme Applications

The relaunched Green House Programme (Casa Verde) has been a very popular national residential subsidy scheme across Romania. According to the Environmental Fund Administration (EFA), as many as 3,748 homeowners submitted an application on 10 October 2016, the starting day of the new two-...
October 24, 2016
Argentina: President’s System Order and Planned Energy Price Hikes Boost Solar Thermal

After having announced plans to sharply increase energy prices across the country, the Argentine government is said to approve new legislation for promoting solar thermal technology. A new bill, which is expected to be passed by the end of 2016, is thought to create a number of financial...
October 20, 2016
Bulgaria: Third Phase of Residential Energy Efficiency Credit Line Launched

Although Bulgaria is a country with many green or mountainous areas, it has had to grapple with severe air pollution caused not only by old cars, but also by wood-fuelled heating systems, which are popular across the country. The European Environment Agency has recently rated the Bulgarian...
October 14, 2016
Nicaragua: Soft Loan to Fund EUR 4 Million Project

There is now nothing in the way of constructing an impressive solar heating and cooling installation in Nicaragua. At the end of September, the last signatures were placed under the contract documents for a 4,450 m² collector field which will supply air conditioning and warm water to the...
October 4, 2016
Germany: Bank Builds Solar House for Alternative Pension Scheme

Topping out a new primarily solar-supplied residential building in Germany is not really news anymore, especially because there have already been more than 1,800 solar houses set up all across the country, according to November 2015 statistics by the association Sonnenhaus-Institut (Solar...
October 1, 2016
Germany: International Conference on Heat Access in Southern Africa

Merging three individual conferences into the International Conference on Solar Technologies & Hybrid Mini Grids to Improve Energy Access was rewarded with a satisfying number of attendees visiting the latter. According to the organisers, 185 experts from 38 countries from all...
September 22, 2016
West Africa: Cabo Verde, Ghana and Nigeria Market Assessment

ed and successful policies should be promoted – which is why the Southern African Solar Thermal Training and Demonstration Initiative (SOLTRAIN) should be implemented in West Africa as well. Since 2009, the programme has helped train about 2,150 people during 80 courses and install 187...
September 20, 2016
India: Industry Demands Equally Assertive Solar Thermal Publicity

The Indian government should provide the same assertive publicity for solar thermal technology as it had for solar PV because the population still needed to be made aware of the benefits of solar water heating. This was the major concern raised during the panel discussion Policy and...
September 19, 2016
Austria: Prefabricated Roofboxes Create New Living Space on Multi-Storey Building Roofs

Renovating multi-storey buildings can be used to create new living space with an additional top floor. That’s where an Austrian consortium led by AEE INTEC comes in: It has developed the Roofbox, an entirely prefabricated modular living space. A Roofbox consists of a bathroom, a kitchen, a...
September 2, 2016
Germany: 2Power PVT Modules Supply Power and Heat from Same Roof Space

eneration of solar heat and solar electricity. For many years, products have entered and disappeared from the market without leaving much of a trace. German company PA-ID has installed around 8,000 2Power panels, at almost 500 project sites. The 2Power elements consist of standard PV laminates with...

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