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India: National Incentive Programme Reduces Grants
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) reduced its benchmark prices of solar water heaters within the national solar subsidy scheme under the National Solar Mission. As the level of subsidy is based on 30 % of the benchmark prices, the grants were also reduced. The new regulations came …
France: Restructuring SAED
SAED or Sophia Antipolis Energie Developpement, which is a start-up located in the south of France, produces a heat pipe protected by two patents. The company developed a vacuum tube collector which has been used to build low-cost large-scale solar thermal installations for solar heating, as well as solar industrial …
Austria: Greiner Closes Down Solar Thermal Business, Keeps Working on SolPol
In a press release on 12 June, just one week before the Intersolar Europe, Austrian foam producer and plastic processing company Greiner Group announced to close down Greiner Renewable Energy (GRE). GRE had acquired the three solar companies Sun Master, Xolar and Solution little more than two years ago, in …
India: “Test centres will educate manufacturers on quality measures”
From railway management to solar thermal technology: this is the how the life of Veena Sinha took a new path in December 2012. Sinha had worked with Indian Railways at the middle management level for 15 years. She had handled matters ranging from technology and human resources issues to project …
Albania: New Energy Law Shows Country’s Strong Commitment to Solar Thermal
The new Albanian law on Renewable Energy Sources No. 138/2013 from 2 May 2013, which was published in the Official Gazette No. 83 on 20 May 2013, requires builders to adhere to a minimum share of solar thermal heat for certain building types. Furthermore, the so-called RES Law exempts solar …
Germany: Almeco Solar Presents Absorber Tube for Process Heat Collectors
German coating manufacturer Almeco Solar has designed a new absorber tube: Small in size with a working temperature around 200 °C and no vacuum. The company wants to beat both the performance and the current price of black chrome absorber tubes. The solution is called Tinox tube 2.0 and has …
Egypt: Stakeholders sign Memorandum of Understanding for Solar Initiative
At a press conference on 2 June 2013, Khaled Gasser, Chairman of the Solar Energy Development Association (SEDA), Sherif Elwi, Deputy Chairman of the National Bank of Egypt, Hisham Zaazou, Egypt’s Minister of Tourism, and Hussein Ghaleb, Vice Chairman of the Egyptian Hotel Association (EHA) (from left to right), signed …
France: One Voice for Renewable Heat
In France, players of solar thermal, geothermal, heat pumps and biomass founded the Alliance Chaleur Renouvelable (translated as Renewable Heat Alliance) in February 2013. “This network speaks with one voice when it comes to the demands and suggestions from the renewable heat industry,” says Valérie Laplagne, Initiator of the project …
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