Solar thermal industria
Europe: Collector Field Is Main Cost Driver of Industrial Solar Heat Plants
Scientists from Germany and Switzerland have recently analysed the cost structures of systems producing solar process heat. They presented their findings in mid-May at the Solar Thermal Energy Symposi......
Read MoreItaly: New Solar Cooling Systems and Opportunities
Government incentives have been pushing solar cooling forwards in Italy. The large budget available for national incentive scheme Conto Termico 2.0 has made several service providers optimistic about ......
Read MoreEgypt and Jordan: SHAMCI to Give New Impetus to Arab Markets
The implementation of SHAMCI, the Solar Heating Arab Mark and Certification Initiative, could help expand the solar thermal market in both Egypt and Jordan. On 15 and 16 May 2017, a workshop held at t......
Read MoreChile: Solar Thermal Market Moves at Half Throttle
One year after the relaunch of the tax credit scheme for solar thermal systems in February 2016 (Law 20.897), some preliminary figures show a small increase of Chile’s solar market. But although the ......
Read MoreHeat pump makes use of low-temperature solar energy for space heating
With round about four decades in business, the German-Slovak Thermosolar Group is one of the oldest solar thermal manufacturers in Europe. It began producing collectors in 1972 in Slovakia and started......
Read More“Need to include solar in architectural education”
Brazil ranks fourth on the list of the world’s largest solar thermal markets, but very few installations have been integrated into a facade or roof. Sylvio de Podestá is the architect behind one of ......
Read MoreGermany: Renewable District Heating Grants
German politicians are beginning to appreciate the benefits of solar district heating, or SDH for short. Germany’s Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, BMWi, has launched District Heating Networ......
Read MoreSouth Africa: SHIP Opportunities in Agri-Processing and Textile Production
South Africa shows large but untapped potential in terms of Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (SHIP). So far, there have been only seven systems in operation across the country and they provide heat......
Read MoreLow-Energy Buildings: Solar Thermal, PV or Heat Pump?
What is the best way to supply heat and power to low-energy buildings? Although there is no single answer to this question, solarthermalworld.org simulated the installation of a solar thermal unit, ......
Read MoreMoldova: Vacuum Tube Collector Assembly Line Inaugurated
Moldova saw the commissioning of an assembly line for vacuum tube collectors in what used to be the large halls of a manufacturing plant. The owner of the premises is Raut, based in the city of Balti,......
Read MoreNew export-orientated collector and tank factory in Turkey
Collector and tank producer Bural Solar, founded in 2015, showed its product range at this year’s Mostra Convegno, an international trade fair in Milan, Italy, Mid March. The founder of the company, ......
Read MoreGermany: Tool to Calculate Solar Feed into District Heating Network
Interest in solar district heating is growing in Germany. A map by German research organisation Solites shows the systems currently in operation to be 23 totalling 49,600 m² of collector area (34.7 M......
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