Solar heating – a technology of the future
Innovations from Austria
Austrian firms play an important part in the European market for solar thermal technologies. Almost one third of the solar collectors in place in Europe have been ..... Read full article
Using heat from the sun –
strategies for expanding solar thermal energy
Heat from the sun has tremendous potential, since it is available in virtually unlimited quantity and can be integrated satisfactorily both in existing and in future energy ..... Read full article
Renovating large-volume buildings
with solar heating
Just how efficient solar heating can be in supplying heat is revealed by the innovative way a block of flats in Kapfenberg (Styria) has been renovated (architecture: ..... Read full article
InSun
Solar collectors for process heat in industry
The EU project “InSun – Industrial Process Heat by Solar Collectors” (which has received funding from the EU‘s Seventh Research Framework Programme) is focussed on demonstrating large-scale ..... Read full article
BIG SOLAR
20 % solar energy for district heating in Graz
Today district heating covers 39 % of the demand for heat in Graz (around 1 000 GWh in 2013). It is planned to expand the district heating grid ..... Read full article
SolPol
Polymer-based innovations for solar technology
SolPol is the largest research initiative anywhere in the world concerned with polymer-based innovations for solar technology. Since 2009 scientists at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz have ..... Read full article
Low-cost solar systems
to supply energy worldwide
The Austrian technology company SUNLUMO is currently at work on getting a low-cost, plastic-based “One World Solar Collector” to the market. This resource-conserving alternative to conventional collectors ..... Read full article
Interview with an expert
Sabine Putz, Head of R&D at S.O.L.I.D. Solar Installation and Design
With its know-how for large-scale solar facilities S.O.L.I.D. is one of the leading companies in the solar technology sector. How do you see the solar thermal market ..... Read full article
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to issue 1/2016
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