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  • NFOŚiGW
    February 7, 2018

    Solar to replace coal in Polish district heating networks

    Zbigniew Kamieński, adviser to the president of NFOŚiGW’s board, has recently made some encouraging statements. During the conference Use of renewable energy sources and seasonal heat storage in district heating in Warsaw on 17 January, he said that the proposal of a new subsidy...
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  • February 3, 2018

    Investment subsidy for plants up to 200 m²

    The Netherlands Enterprise Agency RVO.nl administers since the beginning of 2016 a subsidy scheme for residential solar water heater systems as well as solar combi systems (hot water and space heating) with currently EUR 100 million EUR annually. 

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  • Photo: Jaideep Malaviya
    January 23, 2018

    1,500 preheating systems in India’s silk region

    Solar process heat has gained popularity in the centre of India’s silk production – more specifically, in Sidlaghatta, a town in the southern state of Karnataka. The statistics of Karnataka’s Department of Sericulture shows that a little over 1,500 units between 2 and 10 m² have been...
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  • Malta Subsidy Statistics
    January 17, 2018

    Solar thermal loses popularity in Malta

    The Mediterranean island of Malta is a paradise for all those who enjoy basking in the sun. But despite the country’s high levels of solar irradiation, its people haven’t yet warmed to solar thermal. A recent study by Malta’s Regulator for Energy and Water Services (REWS) has shown a...
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  • Danube River
    December 28, 2017

    Renewable heat projects along Danube River

    DanubeHeat helps small and medium enterprises, research and educational institutions, and public agencies draft EU funding applications. Financially supported by the German education ministry and coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE based in Freiburg, Germany...
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  • Croatia
    December 27, 2017

    Delay in launch of Croatia’s residential support scheme

    Croatia, a western Balkan country, is one of the most sun-rich nations in the EU, but progress on the solar thermal front has been unsatisfactory in the eyes of Professor Ljubomir Majdandžić, Acting Director of the Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund (EPEEF). “Our energy...
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  • December 21, 2017

    Grants for solar thermal in public buildings

    During the next three years public institutions in Croatia can apply for grants to finance the energy efficient renovation of their buildings. Also the installation of renewable energy sources like solar thermal collectors are an eligible technology to be supported. A total of HRK 380 million (...

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  • ADEME
    December 21, 2017

    Project partners guarantee SDH yield

    15 December saw the inauguration of the first installation supported by the subsidy scheme for large-scale solar thermal projects in France. The 2,340 m² collector field by German manufacturer KBB Kollektorbau has since been feeding into a biomass district heating network of Châteaubriant,...
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  • December 21, 2017

    Grants for large-scale commercial solar plants

    In 2015 the national energy agency Ademe in France started a large-scale solar thermal support scheme with two submission deadlines annually. There are two new submission deadlines planned for March and November 2018. Between 2015 and 2017 a total of 14 applications were submitted and six of them...
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    November 22, 2017

    SHC 2017 / Hans Josef Fell: Renewables can supply the world by 100

    For small and medium size renewable energy projects, feed-in tariffs are still the most adequate political framework, says Hans-Josef Fell. A study by the Energy Watch Group shows how renewables can supply energy for the whole world.

    This video was filmed during the Solar Heating and...

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  • Horizon 2020
    November 19, 2017

    EU Funding for Solutions to Decarbonise Heating and Cooling Market

    A search for ‘solar thermal’ in a recently published 195-page document titled Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy will not return encouraging results (see the attached document). The publication by the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020 shows only 6 entries in total. “Solar thermal is...
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