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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...
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...

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