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Building-integrated solar envelopes: barriers to deployment
Active and passive solar systems integrated into building envelopes are key to combatting climate change. However, there are many barriers which confine current solutions to the demonstration stage an......
Read MoreRecord participation at SDH 2018 in Graz
The 5thInternational Solar District Heating Conference, which took place in Graz, Austria, in mid-April, brought together 350 experts from 33 countries. It had twice as many attendees as the previous ......
Read MoreFirst Spanish solar district heating system for 12,000 families
In February, Alcalá Ecoenergías signed a deal to construct a district heating system powered by solar and biomass in Alcalá de Henares, a city in Spain. The agreement between the local company and ......
Read MoreItaly: 10,000 m² ORC-Connected Fresnel and Parabolic Trough Fields
Italy’s feed-in tariff for medium-size concentrating solar power plants has supported the installation of a 10,000 m² Fresnel collector array in Sardinia (see photo). The mirrors have been in operat......
Read MoreFirst heliostat field made in Brazil
The University of São Paulo in Pirassununga (see photo) is about to get its own field of heliostats on campus. Once completed, the sea of mirrors will focus sunlight onto a receiver connected to an O......
Read MoreSolar showers for displaced people and refugees
The UN Refugee Agency has begun ordering solar water heaters to improve the sanitary conditions in Ugandan refugee camps. The news ties in neatly with the first conference on Energy for Displaced Peo......
Read MoreParabolic trough collector production line shipped to China
Absolicon, a Swedish supplier of concentrating solar thermal technology, has recently delivered its first production line to a Chinese company. The equipment to manufacture parabolic trough collectors......
Read More123th canton Fair--solar water heater business
On 15th-19th,May,2018, Zhejiang Sidite New Energy Co.,ltd attend the 123th Canton Fair in Guangdong province,China; This fair was held twice a year in China.At this fair, Sidite Solar Main show th......
Read MoreSecond winter for 75,000 m² SDH heating system in Inner Mongolia
Since October 2016, a 75,000 m² parabolic trough collector field for district heat seems to have been operating in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region in China. Ruicheng Zheng from the China Academy......
Read MoreSweden: Pioneer of solar district heating
When it comes to district heating, Sweden has made the switch from fossil fuels to biomass and waste heat (see chart). As early as 2015, biomass provided 46 % of the energy in district heating network......
Read More“Contract market fluctuates from year to year”
2017 was a difficult year for solar district heating supplier Arcon-Sunmark based in Denmark. The collector manufacturer’s turnover dropped from Danish Krone (DKK) 457 million, or USD 75 million, to ......
Read MoreFirst heliostat field made in Brazil
The University of São Paulo in Pirassununga (see photo) is about to get its own field of heliostats on campus. Once completed, the sea of mirrors will focus sunlight onto a receiver connected to an O......
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