The 2013 Austrian subsidy scheme of the Climate & Energy Fund is published now.
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The Workshop was visited by around 70 participants and provided an overview of the current status and latest developments in technologies for solar cooling in tropical climates as well as a guided tour of the world´s largest solar cooling system read more...
In 1997 Eibiswald district heating installed its first solar district heating plant of 1246 m² collector area. As the district heating network of the village in South Western Styria, Austria, doubled its size in recent years, the collector area was enlarged by another 1200 m² by end of 2012. read more...
SOLID is subtask leader for International Energy Agency
The international research project “Task 45 - Large Systems: Large Solar Heating/Cooling Systems, Seasonal Storage, Heat Pumps” started in January 2011 and is part of the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme. Jan Erik Nielsen from Denmark is operating agent and SOLID is one of the very few commercial enterprises who take the subtask lead for International Energy Agency (IEA). This emphasises both the siginificance of research and development for SOLID and the high qualitiy of the research work of SOLID.
Subtask leader is Sabine Putz, who is also head of the SOLID R&D department with nine employees.
Christian Holter, CEO of SOLID, about the motivation of SOLID: “We don’t want mistakes of the past to be repeated in future large scale solar thermal plants. Plants which run well over a long period need appropriate hydraulics, large collectors and systematic quality management.”