Dear Solarthermalworld.org Reader,
Although
Austria’s solar thermal market is suffering from declining demand, the
technology is still making headlines across the country. By 2050,
Austria’s capital Vienna wants to cover half of its heat demand by solar
thermal energy, it says in the Seven Energy Assumptions. These were
presented by Bernd Vogl, Head of the city’s Department for Energy
Planning, MA 20, at the beginning of October, during the panel
discussion shown in the photo.
The
fully solar-heated commercial buildings by Harald Kuster have also
attracted great interest from the media. With his engineering company
FIN - Future is Now, Kuster has already planned 25 FullySolar Buildings
over the last seven years, most of them commercial ones. During the
heating season, solar energy is fed directly into the coil registers,
which have been integrated into the floor slabs of the buildings. The
“activated” concrete releases heat into the rooms, providing a
comfortable indoor environment even during cloudy weather periods
without direct sunshine in winter.
Have a good read and sunny regards
The editorial team
Vienna's Energy Assumptions
FIN – Future is Now