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Market Statistics: Three Studies Analyse Solar Thermal Market Development
There are signs that the strong decline of the European solar thermal market reported over the last two years came to a halt in 2011 – at least according to three market reports published in June...
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Solar Industrial Process Heat (2011)
This 2011 presentation gives an overview of the industrial process heat market, and outlines the barriers and obstacles to further growth. Although low- and high-temperature solar thermal applications...
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Lebanon: Successful Installation of Testing Equipment
The new test facility for solar thermal collectors at the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) in Beirut, Lebanon, is now in its warm-up phase: At present, the technical team is preparing the collector...
View ArticleSerbia: Technology Transfer to Make Sun Rise in Western Balkans
If there is a region in Europe across which conditions for solar thermal use are favourable but the power of the sun has not been much utilised, it´s surely South-East Europe. The insolation from...
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Cuba: 15 Years GERA Solar Thermal R&D and Testing
The Cuban Applied Renewable Energy Group, GERA, can look back at 15 years of successful research and development projects. Together with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Orient University...
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Market Report for Small and Medium-sized Solar Air Conditioning Appliances -...
This report forms one of the main basic activities of the EU-funded SOLAIR project, which was implemented from 2007 until 2009 with the aims of capacity building, promoting and influencing the process...
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Greece: Urban Citizens Struggle to Pay Heating Bills
On 15 October 2012, Greece increased the tax on heating oil - drastically: Instead of EUR 0.90 to 1.05, consumers now have to pay around EUR 1.30 to 1.40 per litre. Heating one’s home has become a...
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EU Project: RELACS in Sustainable Holiday Accommodations
What have the Albena resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast (see photo), the Bräuer restaurant in Weißkirchen, Austria, and the 2 Danby Cottages in the UK’s Forest of Dean in common? They are all part...
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Bulgaria: “People now know that solar thermal can help them avoid high energy...
“Bulgaria has a new government and in my opinion, energy efficiency and sustainable technology should be its top priority,” Bulgaria’s President Rosen Plevneliev said after a meeting with Connie...
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Database of Building Codes: 24 Individual Regulations
Sometimes, it takes a while until good ideas are copied. This has been the case with solar/renewable building codes, which were invented in Israel more than 30 years ago. It has just been over the last...
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Greece: Sales Stable, but Profits under Pressure
Whereas Central Europe’s solar thermal markets keep shrinking, Greek has been very stable in recent years. In the meantime, Southern Europe’s hopeful, however, has attracted domestic competitors from...
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Bulgaria: CL SENES – Hard Times for Well-established Solar Research Centre
Next to the Tsarigradsko Chaussee, an important road artery leading to the outskirts of Sofia, one can make out a vast research area belonging to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). On its campus,...
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Greece: Sole’s Pool Heating Combines Geothermal Heat Pump and Solar Collectors
The new swimming pool complex in the sports centre of the Amaliada municipality in the Greek province of Ilia is heated by a combination of solar thermal collectors, three warm wells and an electric...
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REN 21: Solar Thermal Contributes Significantly to Hot Water Production
According to REN21’s Renewables 2014 Global Status Report, which was published at the UN-hosted Sustainable Energy for All Forum in New York at the beginning of June, solar thermal technologies...
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Solar Thermal Cooling: Technology, Cost and Case Study (2014)
IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency, together with the Government of the Republic of Cyprus organized an event on renewable energy applications for island tourism. During this 2-day...
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Greece: Nobel Moves Solar Water Heater Production to Bulgaria
Greek manufacturer Nobel Xilinakis moved its solar water heater production to the Elin Pelin industrial park in the Sofia region of Bulgaria. The relocation had already been completed at the end of...
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The Greek Solar Thermal Market and Industrial Applications - Overview of the...
This 2010 presentation by the Greek Solar Thermal Industry (GSTI) gives an overview of Greece’s solar thermal market, which in 2009 had the third highest solar thermal capacity in operation of any...
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Market Statistics: Three Studies Analyse Solar Thermal Market Development
There are signs that the strong decline of the European solar thermal market reported over the last two years came to a halt in 2011 – at least according to three market reports published in June...
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The Greek Solar Thermal Market and Industrial Applications - Overview of the...
This 2010 presentation by the Greek Solar Thermal Industry (GSTI) gives an overview of Greece’s solar thermal market, which in 2009 had the third highest solar thermal capacity in operation of any...
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Market Statistics: Three Studies Analyse Solar Thermal Market Development
There are signs that the strong decline of the European solar thermal market reported over the last two years came to a halt in 2011 – at least according to three market reports published in June...
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