Solar Heat Europe Activities
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What do you value the most in ESTIF’s activities?
Some of our members are answering the question mentioned in the title. Please note that Solar Heat Europe was named...
Cooling EU – Cooling: A Sleeping Giant? Paving the way for a sustainable future
On 19 June 2017, more than 50 stakeholders interested in sustainable and clean cooling attended in Brussels the CoolingEU Launch...
Solar Heat Europe Activities Overview
The Solar Heating and Cooling for Buildings and Industry Conference (SHC Conference)
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...
Decarb Europe Initiative
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...
#RenEUable – Renewables Success Stories
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 Working Group (ESTESC)
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...
Solar Certification Fund
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...
Solar Keymark – CEN Keymark Scheme
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...
European Solar Thermal Technology Panel
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)
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...
LabelPack A+
LabelPack A+ is coordinated by Solar Heat Europe and runs under H2020. The purpose of the project is to inform individuals about Energy Labelling with focus on the package label for highly efficient combinations of conventional and renewable heating systems. It aims at supporting professionals in the heating market to better approach their responsibilities within this legal framework and help the end-consumer to get the most out of the energy labelling and to make more efficient choices. Read More...
FROnT: Fair RHC Options and Trade
The purpose of FROnT initiative was to promote a level playing field for Renewable Energy Sources - Heating and Cooling (RES-H&C) in Europe, and develop strategies for its greater deployment. Created in March 2014 and co-funded by the IEE programme, FROnT was a consortium of national energy agencies, research institutes, NGOs and trade associations. Read More...