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Difficult Task: Implementing Solar Building Codes in Italy

Difficult Task: Implementing Solar Building Codes in Italy

Orientation in the solar obligation jungle in Italy: The website of the EU-Project ProSTO gives advice and support to municipalities in Italy and other European countries to successfully implement solar building codes …
Portugal: Unclear Conditions with the Incentive Programme

Portugal: Unclear Conditions with the Incentive Programme

“The intentions were good, but the implementation was very confusing. When the programme started in March, the market players were not informed and only one company met the conditions of it”. This is how Jorge Vaz from the Portuguese collector manufacturer Openplus Energy Systems judged the new incentive programme in …
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Tokyo Gas launches balcony-integrated Collector

Japan´s large natural gas company, Tokyo Gas, started producing a collector panel that can be integrated into balconies. The low-cost system is a combination of solar panels and a gas water heater. Photo: Tokyo Gas …
Solar houses: Renewables to Make Up 50 % of the Annual Energy Demand

Solar houses: Renewables to Make Up 50 % of the Annual Energy Demand

There was no going around the huge Solarhaus 50+ sign in the centre of Hall B2 at the Intersolar, the international solar fair in Munich at the end of May. Solar Energy covers more than 50% of the heating demand of such a Solarhaus 50+. Photo: Bärbel Epp …
Strategic Partnerships for Turnkey Solar Collector Factories

Strategic Partnerships for Turnkey Solar Collector Factories

Premiere at the Intersolar fair in Munich, Germany: SMI from Italy and Sunrise from Greece publicly announced their strategic partnership, with the goal to offer turnkey machinery solutions to the solar thermal industry. Photo: Bärbel Epp …
Manufacturer Founds Air Collector Association SAHWIA

Manufacturer Founds Air Collector Association SAHWIA

Air collector companies exist very much in the shadows of the manufacturers of water collectors. Therefore a Solar Air Heating World Industry Association (SAHWIA) is necessary. But not all manufacturers are pleased with the procedure that lead to the association’s founding. Photo: Solarwall …
Solar water heating systems in the city of Hedingen, Switzerland”

Basel-Country: At Least 50 % Solar Share in Domestic Hot Water in New Buildings

More and more Swiss cantons approve mandatory laws or requirements for a solar share in the domestic hot water supply of residential, public or commercial buildings. These solar water heating systems were built on a voluntary basis …
“We Were Clearly in Need of the Incentive Programme”

“We Were Clearly in Need of the Incentive Programme”

Solarthermalworld.org spoke with Manuel Collares-Pereira,  R&D director of the Portuguese collector manufacturer Aosol, about the development of his company and the Portuguese solar thermal incentive programme. Photo: Aosol …

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