Arcon Solar

February 12, 2015
Denmark: New Arcon-Sunmark Focuses on Large-Scale Turnkey Installations

Danish VKR Holding purchased collector manufacturer and turnkey system supplier Sunmark Solutions, also from Denmark, and incorporated the company into subsidiary Arcon Solar. The two firms have now merged to become Arcon-Sunmark, a direct subsidiary of VKR Holding and headquartered in...
January 30, 2015
Denmark: Combined CSP and Flat Plate Collector System Supplies Solar District Heating

7 January 2015 was the starting date for the construction of a unique solar heat plant for district heating in the Danish village of Tårs, 30 km north of Aalborg. It combines parabolic trough collectors and flat plate collectors in order to cover 30 % of the heat demand by the...
January 1, 2015
Austria: Robert Kanduth Buys Back 50 % Greenonetec Stake

Danish Solarcap’s solar disinvestment strategy continues: In November 2014, the subsidiary of the Danish VKR Holding sold its 50 % share in Austrian collector manufacturer Greenonetec back to the founder, Robert Kanduth (see photo). Kanduth is an Austrian entrepreneur with experiences in a...
September 3, 2014
Denmark: Solvarmedata.dk Shows Yields of More Than 40 Solar District Heating Plants

The interactive map on www.solvarmedata.dk, a website operated by agency Easynet, shows yield information entered by more than 40 solar district heating companies. The data also includes the irradiation figures and for most plants, even the hourly results of past years. The website was...
August 30, 2014
Denmark: 37 MW Field with 203,000 m³ Storage Underway

Construction has begun on another large-scale installation: This time, the new number one solar thermal plant in the world will be in Vojens, a small town in southern Denmark, near the city of Kolding. The customer is Vojens District, which signed a contract with Danish collector...
February 27, 2014
Austria/Europe: General Solar Systems and Sonnenkraft Management Buyout

Since 1 January 2014, General Solar Systems (GSS), one of the biggest solar thermal system suppliers in Europe, has had a new owner: Together with Austrian investors, former GSS Financial Director Primus Spitzer took over the company from Danish Solarcap, a subsidiary of VKR Holding. The...
July 22, 2013
Denmark: ECCO Hotel’s Intelligent Solar Heating Solution

The hotel building extension at the ECCO Education and Conference Centre in Tønder, Denmark, supplies its own energy. Among other things, the autonomous energy supply is the result of a solar heating solution connected to the hotel’s booking system. The system comes from...