Thermal

TGE Group installs UK’s largest solar thermal plant

Monday, 03 February 2014 Robin Whitlock

Renewable energy company TGE Group has installed the UK’s largest commercial, solar thermal installation, in a flagship project to provide space heating for a game rearing business in Shropshire

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

Europe

Solar thermal market remains static in 2011

Tuesday, 12 June 2012 REM There are signs that the strong decline reported over the last two consecutive years came to a halt in 2011, according to the annual solar thermal market statistics published yesterday by the European ...

Solar heating and cooling markets sees 14% growth

Thursday, 17 May 2012 REM The IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme (IEA SHC) Programme has published its latest statistics of worldwide solar heating and cooling. Despite the economic crisis, the market grew by 14% in 2010, ...

United States

Largest solar water heating system in California installed

Monday, 05 March 2012 REM FAFCO, Inc. has provided the largest solar water heating system ever installed in California (US) and will save its new owner an estimated 37,584 therms annually. The system will provide hot water for ...

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 ...

Cinco Solar expands reach in North America with significant additions to its sales network

Thursday, 09 December 2010 Cinco Solar, Inc., a San Antonio-based distributor and integrator of stand-alone solar water heating systems, including Kingspan Solar’s award-winning Thermomax solar thermal evacuated tubes, has ...

Mexican fast food giant goes solar

Tuesday, 30 November 2010 The Taco Bell restaurant chain has announced that its outlet in Albany in the US is the first commercial establishment in the state of California to receive a PG&E rebate cheque for installing a solar ...

Project So-Pro looks to boost take-up of solar process heat

Tuesday, 16 February 2010 While solar heat for domestic and service applications has increasing market shares across Europe, solar process heat is very much in its infancy. The European Commission’s Directorate General for ...

Record growth in global solar thermal heating

Tuesday, 25 August 2009 The Worldwatch Institute has published its latest statistics showing that the solar thermal heating sector achieved record growth rates worldwide in 2007, driven strongly by China.