Thermal

MiCROSOL collaborative project inaugurates its first demonstrator

Saturday, 23 November 2013 Robin Whitlock

The project led by Schneider Electric brings together nine public and industrial project partners with support from the French environment and energy management agency ADEME

IDEA member introduces solar cooling system for large buildings across North America

Friday, 08 March 2013 Robin Whitlock

The system is designed to reduce costs by combining high-efficiency chillers with hybrid solar thermal and PV technologies

Delta installs 1.25 MW SolFocus CPV system in Italy

Tuesday, 24 July 2012 REM

Engineering and construction firm Delta has completed the installation of a SolFocus CPV system at a 1.25 MW solar park in central Italy.

Europe

Solar thermal output driven by CSP in 2011

Tuesday, 26 June 2012 Toby Price Eurobserv’ER has published its latest solar thermal barometer covering two technologies: solar hot water collectors and electricity production from concentrated solar power (CSP). The report supports ...

IEA to present technology roadmap for solar heating and cooling

Tuesday, 31 January 2012 REM The 1st International Conference on Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry, SHC 2012 in San Francisco (US), will feature the International Energy Agency’s presentation of its forthcoming ...

Solar thermal sweeping China like wildfire, says Earth Policy Institute founder

Monday, 09 January 2012 REM The Earth Policy Institute’s Founder and President, Lester R. Brown, says the pace of solar thermal energy development is accelerating as the installation of rooftop solar water heaters takes off. China ...

Germany

Capturing summer solar thermal output to ease winter's grip

Wednesday, 20 July 2011 Toby Price Hamburg formed the backdrop recently for an announcement by German power giant, E.ON, which plans to feed heat from renewable energy sources into the public district heating grid. The Hanse Wärme ...

Europe

Solar thermal market growth drops yet again

Friday, 24 June 2011 Toby Price A new EurObserv’ER barometer has been released focusing on two renewable energy technologies: solar thermal energy for hot domestic water heating and concentrating solar power (CSP) for electricity ...

Magnetohydrodynamics: the next generation of solar thermal power

Thursday, 18 November 2010 Solar MHD, Inc. is developing a patented new type of generating power-plant, which it describes as “a very promising new technology for electric power generation”. The technology is based on ...

Nanotechnology quintuples heating capacity of solar water heaters

Wednesday, 01 September 2010 Research conducted by scientists at the University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) has enabled a new solar heating system to be developed using nanotechnology which heats water to five times the temperature of ...