Since the beginning of this year, Ata Insights has been running a monthly series of webinars about solar industrial heat (SHIP). The third webinar, titled Opportunities for solar heat in Europe, will be held at 12:00 CET on 19 March. The aim of this series is to illustrate the huge potential for SHIP in the industrial sector and to present real-world case studies that show how solar heat can help decarbonise the sector in a cost-effective way. Ata Insights is a Spanish-based renewable energy consultancy that organises about 100 webinars a year.
Webinar series presents cost-effective industrial solar heat solutions
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Webinar on SHIP industry update & impact of Covid-19
On 14 May, Spanish-based renewable energy consultancy Ata Insights will be hosting a webinar to discuss how the industrial solar heat market developed in several regions in 2019 and in what way the current pandemic will most likely affect its short- and mid-term prospects.
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Hybrid solutions maximise solar yield per area
A record 840 people registered for the PVT solutions for buildings and industry webinar in order to learn more about the wide range of applications in which hybrid PV-Thermal systems can be used. This two-in-one technology offers attractive payback periods whenever a constant amount of heat is needed all year round and electricity is consumed on site. The event was part of a series of Solar Academy webinars supported by Task 60, Application of PVT collectors, and organised jointly with ISES, the International Solar Energy Society.
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Webinar: Strategies in the digital world
Social media channels gained further importance over the last years. Politicians all around the world are tweeting to get their messages out. Lobbyists are networking via digital media, LinkedIn groups are discussing new trends in research and technology, Facebook is replacing company websites etc. You need to find your own position and strategy in the digital world.
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Fact sheets show 30 operational PV-thermal systems
PV-thermal installations are extremely versatile systems, and their manufacturers can cater to a wide variety of customers, single- and multi-family building owners, hotels, swimming pools and even production facilities among them. To illustrate how far PVT technology has come in recent years, global research platform Task 60, Application of PVT collectors, included 30 case studies in its latest report, Existing PVT systems and solutions (see the attached document). The first chapter of the document, published in May, provides an overview of PVT deployment around the world.
iea-shc-task60-a1-existing-pvt-systems-and-solutions.pdf 6.6 Mb [107 download(s)]
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Export champions from Greece offer good value for money
The Greek solar thermal industry is an export champion: The total collector area sold to customers abroad tripled from 200,000 m2 to 600,000 m2 in only 10 years (see chart). Greek manufacturers took advantage of opportunities around the world while demand for their cost-competitive and reliable products also grew at home.
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Solar heat to be part of IRENA Cost Report 2021
The latest edition of the Renewable Power Generation Costs Report from the International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA always creates a great deal of interest, worldwide. More than 2,000 stakeholders registered for the webinar on 9 June in which Michael Taylor from IRENA explained the key takeaways from their latest report (recording of the webinar online.
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Five pathways for decarbonising heating and cooling
“If we intend to take the Paris Agreement seriously, we will have to accelerate the deployment of renewable technologies in heating and cooling.” This statement by REN21 Executive Director Rana Adib during a webinar in late November explains why the organisation has just published another report titled Renewable Energy Policies in the Time of Transition, now with a focus on heating and cooling (HC). The 150-page document may not be short, but it is nevertheless a worthwhile read (see pdf for download below).
irena_iea_ren21_policies_heating_cooling_2020.pdf 10.9 Mb [41 download(s)]
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Industrial solar heat: status quo and costs
IRENA and Solar Heat Europe have both announced webinars that will highlight measures for decarbonising Europe’s industrial sector. On Thursday, 25 February, the IRENA Coalition for Action will present the white paper titled Companies in Transition towards 100 % renewables: Focus on heating and cooling during a 2.5-hour online conference and discuss how the public and private sectors could work hand in hand to speed up the industrial sector’s transformation.
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SRIAs pave the way for a clean energy future
According to the European Technology and Innovation Platform on Renewable Heating & Cooling’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, nearly half the energy consumed across Europe is used to heat residential, commercial and industrial buildings. On 15 October 2020, the then-chairman of RHC-ETIP, Javier Urchueguía, presented the SRIA at the virtual 100 % RHC conference, which can still be watched on the RHC website.
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Supply chain maturity and economies of scale drive solar heat costs down
Europe’s solar thermal industry has achieved quite significant cost reductions since 2014, with economies of scale at the project level helping to drive down costs, Michael Taylor, of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), said at a 9 March webinar titled Cheaper than Electrification: How solar heat will replace oil and gas in the EU industrial sector. His insights are based on a unique dataset that includes the cost and performance characteristics of several hundred commercial solar heat systems put up across the continent.
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Water-energy nexus in wastewater management
Solar-powered water treatment can significantly reduce industrial manufacturers’ water and energy footprints and turn municipal water treatment plants into energy distributors. An example of this, a demo plant in Spain producing renewably sourced hydrogen and oxygen from wastewater, was presented by Christoph Brunner, chair of IEA SHC Task 62 – Solar Energy in Industrial Water and Wastewater Management, at an IEA SHC Solar Academy webinar in March.
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IEA Net Zero by 2050 Roadmap: 400 milestones but very few for solar thermal
At an online press conference in May, IEA Executive Director Dr Fatih Birol made some surprisingly forceful statements about the global net-zero emission targets for 2050 – statements that have since been widely quoted in the media. “This is not a race between nations but a race against time. And no one wins unless everyone finishes,” he said. He also underlined that there is no longer a need for further investment in oil, gas and coal.
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Germany’s solar heat success story in 2020 and beyond
In 2020, the German market for solar heat grew by 26 % – more than any other major solar thermal market around the globe, according to the new Solar Heat Worldwide 2021 report (see chart above).
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Start-ups develop new high-temperature storage solutions
At the end of May, representatives for Norwegian EnergyNest, Swedish Azelio and US Malta joined a webinar organised by Spanish agency ATA Insights to talk about their companies’ innovative, cost-competitive thermal storage systems. The three tech start-ups offer clients intraday solutions that store clean, surplus solar heat or electricity generated during the day for use in the evening and at nighttime, ideally to meet demand 24/7.
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