Huang Ming and Christian Holter met at the ECO Future Workshop
On April 17, 2012, two solar pioneers met at the ECO Future Workshop in Graz:
Mr. Huang Ming, founder of the Himin Solar Energy Group and Alternative Nobel Prize winner 2011
and Dr. Christian Holter, founder of the SOLID Group and pioneer in the field of large solar thermal systems as well as solar cooling.
Training on Solar District Heating in Graz
SOLID cooperates with local utility Energie Graz and Europe’s leading solar thermal and district heating institutions on the dissimination of Solar District Heating. The joint project is called SDHtake-off and supported by the European Union in the programme Intelligent Energy Europe. In the course of this project, there will be a training on May 14 in Graz. Please find details here .
Feeding into the local heating network of the Vransko village
Collector area: 842.3 m² (590 kW)
Storage volume: 93 m³
Commissioning: 2012
S.O.L.I.D. completed its first large scale plant in Slovenia in March 2012. Solar collectors with an area of 842.3 m² feed their energy into a storage tank, which in turn feeds into the district heating grid of
Vransko (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vransko). So far the heat was supplied by four boilers (biomass and oil). Together with the investment into a solar thermal system the puffer tank was installed to manage the loads on the grid.