Thermal

Solar thermal given boost in STA policy win

Tuesday, 04 August 2020 Robin Whitlock The UK Government has published further details on the £2 billion Green Homes Grant scheme, which is due to go live at the end of September, in which solar thermal will be included in the list of technologies ...

Capstone Turbine Partners with NYPA and Brenmiller Energy on Thermal Energy Storage Project

Monday, 06 April 2020 Dan McCue California-based Capstone Turbine Corporation, a leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, has partnered with the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and Brenmiller Energy on a ...

Ground Source Heat Pumps to Help Cut Housing Association’s CO2 Emmissions

Ground Source Heat Pumps to Help Cut Housing Association’s CO₂Emmissions

Thursday, 21 March 2019 REM A landmark order by Together Housing to replace night storage heater with ground source heat pumps in over 700 dwellings across Lancashire and Yorkshire, is the largest single order of its kind in the ...

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 ...