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March 30, 2017
Poland: Solar for More Efficient District Heating Networks

Poland’s Mazovia Region is one of nine regional actors which have worked together with the Institute for Renewable Energy (IEO, formerly EC BREC), the Polish partner, on the Horizon 2020 project SDHp2m: Solar District Heating – From Policy to Market. On 16 March 2017, IEO organised...
March 2, 2017
Austria: New Medium-Temperature Collectors Show Remarkable Yield in District Heating Use

During the last seven years, a group of scientists has monitored selected large solar thermal installations in Austria on behalf of the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund. The gathered data confirms that these plants have been reliable and produce satisfactory yields. Particularly the new...
February 1, 2017
Silkeborg's solar district heating to cover 20 % of heating demand

The Danish town of Silkeborg now holds the record for having the world’s largest solar heating system. The SDH plant of 156,694 m² came online as scheduled in December 2016 after only seven months of construction. Municipal utility Silkeborg Forsyning intends to use the harnessed solar energy to...
January 26, 2017
Denmark: New Solar District Heating World Record

The Danish town of Silkeborg now holds the record for having the world’s largest solar heating system. The SDH plant of 156,694 m² (110 MW_th) came online as scheduled in December 2016 after only seven months of construction. Municipal utility Silkeborg Forsyning intends...
January 4, 2017
Bulgaria: Could Solar Thermal Energy Heat All of Sofia?

Throughout the past decades, Bulgaria’s governments have focused almost exclusively on large conventional energy projects, such as nuclear plants or gas and oil pipelines, whereas small and decentralised renewable energy systems haven’t received much attention from politicians. But the...
December 22, 2016
Switzerland: Borehole Storage Regeneration as Solar Thermal’s Ray of Hope

On 24 November, the fifth Solar Heat Switzerland (Solarwärme Schweiz) conference organised by the solar industry association Swissolar, the building services association suissetec and the Federal Office of Energy was held in Lucerne, Switzerland. As 2017 funding for solar heat incentives...
December 9, 2016
Canada: Solar District Heat Meets Community’s Entire Space Heating Demand

The Canadian Drake Landing Solar Community has hit a new performance milestone, recording its first year of solar-only space heating during heating season 2015-2016. The community’s SDH plant,...
December 7, 2016
Recording of Webinar: Think Big - Design Rules and Monitoring Results of Solar District Heating

The recording of the webinar Think big - Design rules and monitoring results of solar district heating systems is now available. Experts from Austria, Denmark and Germany reported on the hot topics in SDH development. They emphasised the fact that solar district heating has an...
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...
November 3, 2016
Webinar: Think Big – Design Rules and Monitoring Results of Solar District Heating Systems

In cooperation with EU project SmartReFlex, solarthermalworld.org will soon hold the webinar Think big – Design rules and monitoring results of solar district heating systems. We invite every stakeholder to join the event scheduled online for 1.5 hours on Tuesday, 6...
November 2, 2016
Denmark/Germany: Consumer-Owned Utilities Spearhead Energy Market Transformation

Solar district heating is becoming increasingly attractive to small towns and municipalities which are looking for energy independence and stable heat prices, a trend which was discussed at length during the October webinar by the International Solar Energy Society (ISES). Entitled ...
October 26, 2016
France: Is This The New Solar District Heating Country?

After France had become involved in a couple of EU-supported projects as a newcomer, the country is now ready for take-off in the solar district heating (SDH) market. Monitoring data from the first two French pilot plants show performance to be quite good and the systems to be highly...

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