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Kyotherm wins 2019 SHC Solar Award

Kyotherm, a French-based third-party investor, has won the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling programme’s Solar Award for financing energy service companies (ESCOs) so end users in the industrial sector can […]

Start of SHC/SWC 2019 in Chile

As many as two Chilean government ministers welcomed attendees to the joint SHC 2019 and SWC 2019 conference in the capital of Santiago this week: Energy Minister Juan Carlos Jobet […]

All-renewable future for Europe

Reaching a 100 % renewable heating and cooling target across Europe by 2050 will only be possible if there is strong and resolute political support to accelerate the market adoption […]

Solar heat for largest private hospital in Bogotá

A new solar water heating system consisting of 220 flat plate collectors, as well as six air-to-water heat pumps used as backup energy supply, came into operation in Colombia’s capital […]

New fact sheets and wiki page about SHIP solutions

Two leading SHIP research institutes – the University of Kassel, Germany, and AEE INTEC, Austria – have just published their final conclusions on a binational research project called SolarAutomotive, on […]

15 MW SDH plant inaugurated in Latvia

On 12 September, district heating operator Salaspils Siltums inaugurated a 21,672 m² solar field and a wood chip boiler, put up in the middle of the woods near the town […]

Green heat policies in China benefit heat pumps

Several provinces in northern China have implemented green heat policies to avoid air pollution from coal boilers. Beijing was the first province to create a policy in 2016 and others, […]

USD 10 million to fund SHIP projects until July 2020

The first industrial solar heat project which received funding from the California Solar Initiative (CSI) was completed at the end of 2018. Since then, 208 flat plate collectors have been […]