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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...
October 18, 2016
IEA SHC Task 51: German Summer School Educates Students on Solar Urban Planning

The summer school called City in Transition (Stadt im Wandel) ended with a public presentation of the project designs from four student groups on Monday, 26 September, in Berlin, Germany (see photo). During the previous week, students from different fields and German universities...
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...

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