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October 4, 2016
Solar District Heating: Good Performances All Over Europe

The 4^th International Solar District Heating (SDH) Conference, which had been organised under the auspices of Horizon 2020 project SDHp2m…from Policy to Market on 21/22 September 2016 in Denmark, showed the importance of analysing real-life monitoring data from European...
September 29, 2016
Denmark: “Solar District Heating is a Big Part of Our Industry’s future”

While the solar thermal industry has had a difficult time in several EU countries, the solar district heating (SDH) community is still growing: 180 participants from the EU, South Korea and China attended the 4th International Solar District Heating Conference, which was held at quite the...
September 29, 2016
Solar district heating for 3,000 households in the German town of Senftenberg

Friday, 23 September 2016, was the inauguration date for the now largest solar thermal collector field in Germany. Since then, 8,300 m2 of vacuum tube collectors (5.8 MWth) set up in the town of Senftenberg, 140 km south of Berlin, have been feeding energy into the...
September 27, 2016
Germany: First Record-Size Solar District Heating Plant in 11 Years

Friday, 23 September 2016, was the inauguration date for the now largest solar thermal collector field in Germany. Since August, 8,300 m² of vacuum tube collectors (5.8 MW_th) set up in the town of Senftenberg, 140 km south of Berlin, have been feeding energy into the municipality...
September 23, 2016
District heating: “The industry is very optimistic about its future prospects”

ct heating has a long history in Scandinavia: The international symposium on district heating was launched there in 1987. In the meantime, the technology has reached the global stage and the 15th International Symposium on District Heating and Cooling was the first one supported by the...
September 15, 2016
IEA SHC: Attractive Solar Solutions for Urban and Landscape Planning

How can urban planners be convinced to consider solar energy technologies in municipality projects? This is the key challenge faced by the international group of researchers of Task 51, Solar Energy in Urban Planning. One way to attract interest from these planners is to present...
August 19, 2016
Denmark: Arcon-Sunmark Announces Silkeborg Solar Plant Development

On 13 July, Arcon-Sunmark, the Danish large-scale solar heating specialist, officially announced that as the chosen turnkey provider, it was beginning construction on the 156,694 m² solar district heating system (110 MW_th) on behalf of the Danish city of Silkeborg and its...
August 1, 2016
TASK 45 / 55: Guidelines on How to Design Seasonal Storage

Seasonal storage is a key component in the transformation of today’s energy industry. Besides storing energy in summer for heating in winter, it can also be used to save waste heat from the industry and to increase the electricity production from biomass CHP plants. Experiences gathered...
July 29, 2016
Switzerland: PVT System Output Reaches 330 kWhth/m² on Top of 163 kWhel/m²

Crystalline PV modules utilise only 12 to 15 % of the incoming sunlight, while the rest is usually treated as waste heat. Hybrid solar panels, also called PVT elements, will channel this unused low-temperature heat, as shown by a large-scale demonstration plant in Switzerland. The PVT...
July 1, 2016
Top District Heating Countries – Euroheat & Power 2015 Survey Analysis

Solar district heating has enjoyed increasing attention from all across Europe and China, triggered by Denmark’s enormous growth rates in the field. Until the end of last year, the Scandinavian country had seen 577 MW of solar thermal power fed into 79 district heating networks mostly run...
June 20, 2016
Denmark: Solar Concentrating Systems to Offer Wide Array of Uses

At present, the Danish turnkey supplier of concentrating solar systems, Aalborg CSP, has two more large projects under construction. Both installations – one for Danish district heating company Brønderslev Forsyning and one for Australian vegetables producer Sundrop Farms – cover...
June 17, 2016
Austria: Decision on Operating Company for Big Solar Graz Expected Soon

“Large-scale solar thermal systems in the GW range – an insignificant niche market or the future for solar thermal?” was the official title of a panel discussion at the Gleisdorf Solar conference in Austria in early May. The most important question was: What will be next for the planned 350...

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