The Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry conference, a conference of the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme and Solar Heat Europe is the premier annual event for solar professionals in heating and cooling applications. Read More...
DecarbEurope is a multichannel media campaign initiated by European Copper Institute (ECI) with the support of ten industry associations and two media partners. The goal is to engage decision makers in policy and industry with cost-effective technical solutions that each reduce European GHG emissions by 100 to 500 million tons per year. Read More...
The #RenEUable initiative shines a light on one of the EU’s greatest achievements – Europe’s renewable energy industries – by promoting its successes via success stories. Different renewable organisations are supporting this initiative and among them Solar Heat Europe. Read More...
The European Solar Thermal Energy Standardisation & Certification (ESTESC) working group is an initiative of Solar Heat Europe and the European Heating Industry (EHI) association ,in cooperation with the German associations BSW Solar and BDH. It has around 50 members who contribute to the work of its 3 subgroups: (1) Energy labelling; (2) Standardisation; (3) Certification. Do not hesitate to contact Solar Heat Europe if you would like to become a member of ESTESC. Read More...
The Solar Certification Fund (SCF) was set up in 2009, when the Solar Keymark Network (SKN) decided to support activities concerning the development and promotion of the Solar Keymark certification scheme and related standards. Read More...
The Solar Keymark was developed by ESTIF, now Solar Heat Europe, and European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) in close co-operation with leading European test labs and with the support of the European Commission. It is a voluntary third-party certification mark for solar thermal products, demonstrating to end-users that a product conforms to the relevant European standards and full fills additional requirements. Read More...
The European Solar Thermal Technology Platform (ESTTP) was launched by ESTIF, now Solar Heat Europe, in 2005, at the 2nd European Solar Thermal Energy Conference (estec2005) and became part of the RHC-ETIP, after its establishment. The ESTTP consists of 19 elected Steering Committee members and over 500 individual Panel members and has 3 focus groups: (1) Solar thermal systems for buildings (2) Solar heat for industrial applications (3) Market deployment, strategy and scenario development. Read More...
The European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating & Cooling (RHC-ETIP) brings together stakeholders from different renewable heating and cooling technologies from the solar thermal, biomass, geothermal and heat pump sectors – including the related industries such as district heating and cooling, thermal energy storage, and hybrid systems – to define a common strategy for increasing the use of renewable energy technologies for heating and cooling. Read More...
The market, media and policy arena often neglect solar thermal, because solar thermal energy is seldom accounted for and the amount of solar thermal heat supplied is neither measured nor displayed in a transparent way. This also results in problems/breakdowns not being spotted quickly. This “Technical study report on measuring, remote monitoring and remote controlling for solar thermal systems” aims at contributing to making measuring, monitoring, and remote controlling more mainstream for smaller systems. Read More...
Solar thermal suffers in the market, the media and in the policy arena, because solar thermal energy is often not accounted for, and amounts of solar thermal heat are not transparently measured and displayed. This also leads to problems/malfunctions not being spotted quickly. This “Technical study report on solar thermal technology LCIA methods and LCC models” aims at contributing to the demonstration of the advantages of solar thermal systems, taking the lifecycle into account. This means assessing both environmental and economic benefits of the systems over their operation period. Read More...