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Solar 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 MoreBig Solar Germany: Utility-scale solar heat at record-low 36 EUR/MWh
Operators of several gas-driven combined cycle power plants, or CCPPs, have notified the German Federal Network Agency of their systems’ final shutdown. These plants are no longer economically viable......
Read MoreIEA SHC Webinar: Cost reduction potential above 30 %
The key takeaway from an IEA SHC Solar Academy webinar held on 14 March 2018: There is still much room for cost cuts along the entire solar thermal value chain. The webinar was organised jointly by th......
Read MoreFirst cooling installation on Indian government building
Gujarat State Electricity Corporation set up a solar thermal air conditioning system as part of its clean energy initiative last August. The installation offers a capacity of 150 tons of refrigeration......
Read MoreSunPower completes massive parking structure solar installation in Texas
They say that everything is bigger in Texas. while this is true for the wide open prairies 72-oz. steaks, apparently it is true for solar as well. Because when Toyota decided to do solar at their n......
Read MoreGermany: Process Heat Supply from Vacuum Tubes and Air Collectors on the Rise
There is a distinct difference between the make-up of the German solar process heat segment and the country’s solar thermal market in general and it concerns the type of collectors used. One in four ......
Read MoreNetherlands: Solar Thermal Benefits from SDE+ Solar Heat Tariff
In the Netherlands, solar district heating plants with a capacity of 140 kWth or above can benefit from a feed-in tariff scheme called SDE+, which pays a certain amount per kWh of energy. Under the s......
Read MoreIndia: Collector Market No Longer Depends on Subsidies
The Indian solar thermal market is gradually becoming self-sustaining, as fiscal year 2016 showed renewed signs of growth after the suspension of the national grant scheme in 2014. Overall, the glazed......
Read MoreTurkey: Vacuum Tubes in Residential, Flat Plate in Commercial Segment
Turkey’s solar thermal market remained strong in 2016. However, sales figures are hardly easy to come by, as there is a formal market, on which businesses offer well-known brands, and an informal one......
Read MorePoland: Severe Market Decline on heat pipe solar collector
Poland´s market collapsed in 2016. A decline had been expected, but that it would be so severe surprised even insiders from the industry. Only 115,400 m² (81 MWth) were added in 2016, a whopping 58 ......
Read MoreEurope: 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 ......
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