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  • Senftenburg Germany
    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 MWth) set up in the town of Senftenberg, 140 km south of Berlin, have been feeding energy into the municipality...
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  • Case Studies Task 51
    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...
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  • Denmark: Arcon-Sunmark Announces Silkeborg Solar Plant Development
    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 MWth) on behalf of the Danish city of Silkeborg and its...
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  • Bore Hole Storage
    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...
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  • PVT Oberfeld
    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...
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  • Euroheat & Power Logo
    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...
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  • Aalborg Tars Inauguration
    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...
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  • Gleisdorf Solar 2016
    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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  • Sunrain Arcon Joint Venture
    June 10, 2016

    China: Arcon-Sunmark and Sunrain Establish Joint-Venture for Large Projects

    A new joint venture founded in Beijing, China, on 31 May aims at offering large-scale solar heating solutions on the Chinese market. The country’s market leader, Jiangsu Sunrain Solar Energy, and Arcon-Sunmark, a Danish turnkey large-scale system provider, joined forces to establish Arcon-...
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