The Scottish Solar Trade Association has proposed a list of 20 “Asks” for the Scottish Government to reach Scotland’s 2020 goal of 100 % renewable electricity. These key asks include, but are not limited to, retaining the 5% reduced rate of VAT for all domestic solar retrofit, implementing an ambitious solar action plan for Scotland and establishing financial support mechanisms for PV and solar thermal.
Opticube is a modular solar thermal kit to create ground-mounted solar systems with a total area between 30 and 3,000 m² that can be installed without special equipment or training.
The market research agency Solrico puplished the new ISOL Navigator. The comprehensive overview of the global solar thermal market shows that large systems will become more and more important in the following years. The Index analysed 18 key markets and Solrico spoke to 330 stakeholders.
2015 was the first full calendar year following the realignment of the Sonnenhaus Institut, which allowed the combination of photovoltaics and heat pump for the first time. Most Sonnenhaus homes are still heated using solar thermal systems, but photovoltaics are also finding their place.
The solar specialist Resol has launched a new solar controller for controlling hot water solar thermal systems that use electric secondary heating.
In only a few weeks we will publish the newest edition of the SOLAR THERMAL WORLD ADDRESS BOOK, the only comprehensive overview of the global solar thermal industry and its complete value chain. If you want to be part of the book and present your company to the global industry,
Heating with Renewable Energy is a new textbook written by John Siegenthaler, and published by Cengage Learning. This 850 page full colour text shows how to design and construct practical systems that supply space heating and domestic hot water using renewable energy heat sources.
Here you can find a small selection of comprehensive market overvies from the solar thermal sector:
Market Overview: Vacuum Tube Collectors
Market Overview: Flat Plate Collectors
Market Overview: Solar Stations
Photovoltaic Feed