...& and used later. It also means integrating waste heat and renewable heat sources such as #geothermal, #solarthermal, wastewater and other surplus heat streams into district heating systems. City-scale #thermalstorage & district heating make it possible to absorb..
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Solar Thermal Collectors Market expands with solar heating and thermal energy applications. ☀️ #SolarThermal #RenewableHeat #Energy

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Glasspoint is back, and armed with global expansion plans Despite turbulence in U.S. energy policy, the once-bankrupt solar thermal company is planning for growth.

"AI sucked all of the air out of the room if you were raising money for anything else."

Glasspoint's CEO on why the AI boom made it harder to fund a 2.2-GW solar thermal pipeline and how they found a way through.

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Here Comes Concentrating Solar Power For Your Industrial Heat The US concentrating solar power startup GlassPoint has its sights set on ripe solar markets in the US Southwest and elsewhere.

A US startup is bringing concentrating solar power back to the US.

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Picture of solar thermal collectors, total surface 12900 m2

Diagram of the system showing collectors, heat storage, buffer storage, Wood chip boiler and heat pump

Example of solar #DistrictHeating cooperative in Germany
#SolarwärmeBracht.
12.000 m² #solarThermal collectors
20.000 m³ #pitThermalEnergyStorage 🇩🇰 style
Solar fraction 70%
#heatPump +Biomass boiler
130 households, total 2.7 GWh/a
Price 60€/month + 16 ct/kWh
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🚀 Meilenstein erreicht! 🌞 Die #CST-Anlage vom Institut für Solarforschung vom @dlr-de.bsky.social wurde einen ganzen Tag lang autonom betrieben 🤖 – ermöglicht durch einen digitalen Zwilling und intelligente Agenten. Ein Schritt hin zu optimierten Solarthermieanlagen.
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Kraftakt Wärmewende: Genossenschaftliches Wärmeprojekt im zweiten Anlauf Geplant und finanziert war ein Nahwärmenetz, das zu 70 Prozent die Abwärme eines Chemieunternehmens nutzen sollte. Dann kam alles anders. Nun ist ein Technologiemix entstanden, der in seiner Vielfalt ...

#DistrictHeating can be Local Cooperative, as in rural Steyerberg, 🇩🇪 Germany:
-28 km network
-450 buildings
-14.000 m2 #SolarThermal
-17.000 m3 #HeatStorage tank
-5x air source #heatPumps total 1090 kW
-2x 900kW heat pumps
-950 kW biomass boiler
-cost 30 M€
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China launches world’s first dual-tower solar thermal plant in the Gobi Desert.

It stores solar heat in molten salt, allowing for stable, clean electricity generation 24/7.

Huge step for grid stability.

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Damp and mould should never be a fact of life in Scotland. With action, enforcement and innovation, we can end it.

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Raygen to build Concentrated Photovoltaic plant with Thermal and Energy storage.

The Yadnarie project, potentially sized at 150 MW of solar capacity, 90 MW of thermal energy capacity and 720 MWh (8-hours) of energy storage, has recently won state planning approval, and has long been expected to […]

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Technomad Makes Loudspeakers with Heat from the Sun | Technomad Audio Systems BOSTON, April 3, 2020 – Technomad redefines sustainable audiovisual equipment with a partnership that brings solar technology to its already-green plastic loudspeaker manufacturing process.  The new m...

Did you know Technomad loudspeakers are the only ones on the market molded using #solarthermal energy ? Zero carbon molding, thanks to our partners at LightManufacturing.
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Feasibility studies with parabolic trough collector fields in Austria | Solarthermalworld Between 2021 and 2024 the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund was active in supporting feasibility studies for large solar plants. The fund subsidized 15 studies regarding industrial solar heat plants […]

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**Between 2021 and 2024 the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund was active in supporting feasibility studies for large solar plants. The fund subsidized 15 studies regarding industrial solar heat plants with a total collector area of 306,000 m2. Among these studies were seven that included parabolic trough collectors to provide heat for breweries at 170 °C, dairies at 140 °C or sausage production at 170 °C. Each report includes a technical-economic assessment of collector fields in two different sizes with a detailed cost breakdown (see figure 1 below). The feasibility studies carried out by the German company Solarlite CSP Technology provide a good picture of what parabolic trough collectors can achieve for process heat in Central Europe. Here, we take a closer look at the report on a plant for the Austrian sausage manufacturer Wiesbauer. All the reports are written in German and can be downloadedhere.** Photo: Protarget The aim of variant 1 of the feasibility study for the sausage manufacturer Wiesbauer was to achieve the highest possible solar yield on an existing area in the immediate vicinity of the sausage factory in Vienna. Gas boilers currently generate the annual heat requirement of 22.1 GWh in the form of steam. The planners from Solarlite determined a possible aperture area of the parabolic trough field of 25,342 m2, corresponding to 14.2 MW of thermal output. On average, around 6,000 m2 of ground area is therefore required per MW of solar thermal capacity. The solar yield in this case covers 40 % of the factory’s annual heat requirement of 22.1 GWh. In variant 2, on the other hand, the authors analysed the economic viability of a much smaller system with 3.3 MW (5816 m2), which can only cover 11 % of the annual heat demand without storage. The simulation calculations were carried out on the basis that the temperature of the inflow to the collector field is 100 °C and it generates steam at 165 °C. **** | **Variant 1 with storage** | **Variant 2 without storage** ---|---|--- Solar thermal capacity | 14.2 MW | 3.3 MW Aperture area of the parabolic trough collector field | 25,342 m2 | 5,816 m2 Useable solar heat per year | 8.8 GWh/a | 2.51 GWh/a Solar fraction of the total heat demand of 22.1 GWh/a | 40 % | 11 % Specific solar yield per aperture area | 435 kWh/m2 | 469 kWh/m2 CO2 savings | Up to 2,275 tonnes CO2 per year | Up to 650 tonnes CO2 per year **Table 1: Technical data of the two variants in the feasibility study for sausage manufacturer Wiesbauer.** Source: Feasibility study Wiesbauer The Direct Normal Irradiation (DNI) at the factory is 1,156 kWh/m2 annually. The usable solar thermal yield of the collector field is slightly lower in variant 1 (435 kWh/m2) than in variant 2 (469 kWh/m2) due to the storage losses. The efficiency of the plants compared to the DNI potential is 38 % for Variant 1 and 40 % for Variant 2. ## Important factors influencing CAPEX The total investments for all system components of the two variants are shown in Figure 2. The collector field with the mounting system, balance of plant and piping is significantly more than 50 % of the CAPEX in both variants. The daily storage tank in variant 1 costs EUR 3.2 million, 26 % of the total costs. As neither variant involves an EPC contract for the entire plant but rather a heat supply contract with Wiesbauer, a Special Purpose Vehicle is to be established for the handling and operation of the plant. The costs for this are taken into account at around EUR 300,000 (variant 1) and EUR 65,000 in variant 2 – in both cases 2 % of the total costs. The two pie charts also show that no economies of scale applied to the collector field. The specific costs for both variants are 156 EUR/m2 aperture area. In contrast, there are considerable economies of scale for the infrastructure. As the costs are virtually the same for both variants, the proportion of infrastructure costs falls from 17 % in variant 2 to 4 % in variant 1. The economies of scale for project management costs are not quite as high. Here the amount increases from EUR 570,595 in variant 2 to EUR 1,781,500 in variant 1. This is a threefold increase, while the collector field more than quadruples. The cost share therefore falls from 21 % to 14 %. **Figure 1: Comparison of the investment costs for the two variants.** Source: Feasibility study Wiesbauer **** | **Variant 1 with storage** | **Variant 2 without storage** ---|---|--- Solar thermal capacity | 14.2 MW | 3.3 MW Solar fraction related to the total heat demand of 22.1 GWh/a | 40 % | 11 % CAPEX | 12.6 million EUR | 2.75 million EUR OPEX | 201,000 EUR per year | 45,000 EUR per year Heat production costs over 20 years | 77 EUR/MWh | 58 EUR/MWh Annual savings of energy costs | 767,000 EUR/a | 252,000 EUR/a Payback period | 13 years | 9 years CO2 savings over 20 years | 45,500 tonne | 13,000 tonne CAPEX per tonne CO2 savings over 20 years | 277 EUR/tonne | 217 EUR/tonne **Table 2: Heating costs calculated using the net present value method with a discount rate of 2 % over 20 years, taking into account a CAPEX subsidy of 20 % and a carbon pricing of 100 EUR/tonne. The calculation does not take into account any financing costs, profit margins, risk provisions or general inflation.** Source: Feasibility study Wiesbauer Table 2 clearly shows that variant 2 produces cheaper heat than variant 1,, even if the available space is not fully utilised. Variant 2 without storage amortizes after just 9 years. With variant 1 it is 13 years. In terms of investment costs per tonne of CO2 saved, variant 2 is also cheaper (217 EUR/tonne) than variant 1 (277 EUR/tonne). Organisations mentioned in this news article: Solarlite CSP Technology: https://www.solarlite.de/ Austrian Climate and Energy Fund: https://www.klimafonds.gv.at/ Feasibility studies of large solar heat plants: https://solare-grossanlagen.at/machbarkeitsstudien/

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Europe is a leader in clean heat technologies which are all well-suited to the task of decarbonising heating and cooling: #HeatPumps, #SolarThermal and #Geothermal stations, and renewables-based #DistrictHeating.

The EU’s competitive leadership in the sector should be maintained and incentivised.

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When a boiler failed, solar thermal panels kept the home warm. 🌞🔥 Gwe Gasco of 8th Fire Solar shares how efficient solar thermal is—especially important in cold northern Minnesota. Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh7i... #SolarThermal

🙌Low Carbon Technology Centre achieves AECB Retrofit standard!

Greengauge provided building physics, mechanical services and AECB certification support for the HLNS College project.

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In 2023, 18.5% of EU households were not able to keep their home warm during the winter, a 9.5% increase compared to 2022. 📈

The 🇪🇺 needs to act on #energy poverty. Improving the energy efficiency of buildings through better insulation and renewable heating systems, such as #solarthermal, is key!

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In 2023, renewable heating and cooling hit 26.2%, but 74% still rely on fossil fuels.

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☀️ With proper political push, the European #solarthermal sector can triple its capacity by 2030, which would lead to 33.3 Mt of CO2 savings and 21.1 BCM of avoided gas consumption per year.

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