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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 …
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”
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 …
Tokyo: Green Power Certification System Pushes Solar Thermal
Japanese apartment house with flat plate collectors in the balcony: Is this the solar thermal future of Tokyo? In the next two years the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office (TMG) wants to implement 40,000 solar thermal and photovoltaic plants. Photo: Chiryu Heater …
“China is a Very Good Market for Flat Plate Collectors”
Solarthermalworld.org spoke with Jiao Qingtai, vice president of the Chinese collector manufacturer Sunrain Solar Energy Co., at the Intersolar in Munich at the end of May about the advantages and disadvantages of vacuum tube versus flat plate collectors. Photo: Bärbel Epp …
Austria: Solar District Heating on the Rise in Graz
On the 15th of May, the city of Graz saw the inauguration of another large-scale solar thermal installation (from left): Dr. Wolfgang Messner (Graz AG), Andrea Pavlovec-Meixner and Sonja Grabner (municipal councillors), Christian Holter (S.O.L.I.D) and Wolfgang Malik (Graz AG). Photo: Graz AG …
Solar-powered mobile sanitary Container for United Nations
Mobile sanitary container for trouble spots around the world: A thermosiphon system from Australia’s collector manufacturer Solahart supplies the emergency accommodation with hot water by the sun. Photo: Solahart …
Austria: Incentives for Solar Thermal Installations in old Buildings
Two ministries – one strategy: The minister for the economy, Reinhold Mitterlehner, and the minister for the environment, Niki Berlakovich, introduced Austria’s new incentive measures for solar thermal in April 2009 …
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