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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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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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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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Solar Thermal Cooling: technology, cost and case study (2014)
CyprusGreeceThis document was presented at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) event on Renewable Energy Applications for Island Tourism, held in Cyprus on 29-30 June 2014.tourismtourism...
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IEA SHC: Attractive Solar Process Heat Markets
Which countries are currently attractive markets for solar process heat? Different sources give different answers to this question. The chart above shows the assessment of the solar industry. More than...
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Solar Cooling: From Research to Market Competitiveness
Diligent research on small scale low-temperature chillers, the launch of a new generation of compact solar cooling units and large-scale plants able to compete economically with conventional cooling...
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European Energy Labelling: Solar Manufacturers Have Doubts
There is great scepticism among Europe’s solar thermal collector manufacturers about whether or not the energy labelling will increase demand for solar thermal systems. In a survey carried out by...
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ISES Award for Professor Klaus Vajen: “A great honour and motivation for...
Dr Klaus Vajen is the winner of the Achievement through Action Award of the International Solar Energy Society, ISES. The German professor from the University of Kassel and his research group were...
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Greece: Tax Incentives Benefit National Economy
Greece’s solar water heater manufacturers have proved to be highly resilient at a time when the country is in economic crisis. The collector manufacturers were able to increase both domestic (+19 %)...
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Big Ups and Downs on Global Market
The global solar thermal market went into another year of notable decline in 2015. With 37.2 GWth, the newly installed glazed and unglazed collector capacity in the 18 largest countries was 14 % lower...
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