Solar Hot Water News
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Austria, Gas Boiler Suspended After 6 Months
Following the U.S. and the U.K., Austria will also suspend gas boiler sales from 6 months later. The decision to suspend sales from 2025 will be implemented two years earlier. In order to replace gas boilers, solar installation is mandatory, and heating equipment that uses electricity must be purchased. The ion heating system uses 35% less electricity than a heat pump and more than half ...
By New Energy
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Solar Company of the Year: Monitoring Solutions
EcoPhi Renewables Engineering GmbH won the prestigious ‘Solar Company of the Year: Monitoring Solutions’ award at KENYA SOLAR WEEK LEADERSHIP AWARDS 2022. The event focused on utility-scale solar, grid-connected rooftop solar, and off-grid solutions. There were exciting discussions and debates about the latest regulatory frameworks, current and future technology and business ...
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Solar Plate: An Overview
With the passage of time and the rapid advancement of technology, it is necessary to take steps toward environmental sustainability. People now prefer renewable energy sources to conventional energy sources to safeguard the environment. The UK government has taken a good step toward environmental conservation by implementing the Feed-in-Tariff scheme. They have demonstrated to the rest of the ...
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Camp Denali Develops 90kW Solar Project
Located 90 miles from the nearest power grid, Camp Denali has harnessed the benefits of renewable energy for most of its history. From their first hydroelectric system, developed in 1981, to subsequent photovoltaics and passive-solar hot water, they continue to explore evolving ways to power their facilities while minimizing fossil fuel dependence and carbon emissions. ...
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Hawaii Launches Innovative Financing Model for Clean Energy
On April 8, Hawaii Governor David Ige formally announced the Green Energy Money $aver (GEM$) on-bill financing program, a statewide initiative to make clean energy more affordable for homes and small businesses. The culmination of more than seven years of work by Hawaiian authorities, the program provides easy-access financing for cost-effective rooftop solar panels and other renewable ...
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How to Heat Swimming Pool with Solar Collectors
Nowadays, the trend of using solar collectors is increasing. They are durable, eco-friendly, and cost-efficient. Due to this reason, people are likely to use these collectors at their homes and workplaces. In the majority of homes, you can easily find big swimming pools. For these swimming pools, you need to make use of solar collectors. These collectors will heat the water of the pool ...
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Southern California Solar Incentives to Promote Homeowners’ Interests
The southern California solar rebates are providing an initiative program for everyone across the state. The state of California is targeting to change over 33 per cent of its energy requirements to solar energy. This has translated into the now famous subsidized CSI – the California solar initiative program. The solar rebate program for consumers in California is a part of the SDG&E's ...
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Solar Panel Systems for Homes to Reduce Utility Bills and Improving Environment
The solar panel for your home is one of the greatest options for everyone including homes and families of all sizes. Millions of Americans can now take the advantage of affordable solar panel system to reap the benefits of the free and endless fuel in the form of sun energy. The research in solar power generation has been going on for a long time. It has been a long and arduous journey and only ...
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Emerging solar plants scorch birds in mid-air
Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays - "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair. Federal wildlife investigators who visited the BrightSource Energy plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one "streamer" every two minutes, are ...
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Running on waste heat
Original story at MIT News It’s estimated that more than half of U.S. energy — from vehicles and heavy equipment, for instance — is wasted as heat. Mostly, this waste heat simply escapes into the air. But that’s beginning to change, thanks to thermoelectric innovators such as MIT’s Gang Chen. Thermoelectric materials convert temperature differences into electric ...
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Solar Keymark certification going strong ten years on!
Ten years ago, on 20 October 2003, the first ever Solar Keymark certificate was issued. Ten years later, the Solar Keymark is a success story, with around 2000 certificates for collectors and systems held by companies from 40 countries. The Solar Keymark was conceived ten years ago as a voluntary third-party certification mark for solar thermal products, demonstrating to end-users ...
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Enecsys micro inverters gain traction in Hawaii with new partner R&R Solar Supply
Enecsys Limited, a premier supplier of micro inverter products for the global solar market, announced that it was making excellent progress in the Hawaii solar residential market thanks to its growing partnership with R&R Solar Supply in Honolulu, Hawaii. "R&R Solar Supply is pleased to offer our contractor customers a micro inverter solution that we feel better serves the needs of both ...
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Heating and cooling buildings with solar heat
Air conditioning makes up bulk of the power usage especially in tropical countries where the sun is shining almost throughout the year and the humidity levels are high. It makes a perfect sense to use solar heat to cool homes, business and factories. Many air-conditioning systems are commercially available using simple roof top PV solar panels to generate electric power to run an electric window ...
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Ameresco Expands Market Share in Ohio with New Energy Efficiency Project at Leading Vocational School
Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC), a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company, today announced that it has entered into an Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) project with Lorain County Joint Vocational School (JVS). As part of the contract, the school will leverage Ohio’s landmark energy conversation legislation (HB 264) to implement comprehensive energy conservation measures ...
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How can I make my business more profitable?
Reducing energy costs is possible thanks to biomass, as will be demonstrated in Conecta Bioenergia Lots of businesses are installing biomass to reduce their energy costs and so face the future safe in the knowledge that hikes in fossil-fuel energy prices will not have a negative impact on their operating costs. The tourist industry, agriculture and food firms and residents’ groups top the ...
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NorCal Solar to Host Party to Launch 9th Edition of Solar Energy Resource Guide
The Northern California Solar Energy Association (NorCal Solar) will be launching its latest Solar Energy Resource Guide (SERG) on the eve of the 2012 Intersolar North American conference in San Francisco next month. The SERG serves as a requisite tool for northern Californians interested in utilizing solar energy at home and in their businesses. The 9th edition SERG features articles covering ...
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NH Adopts Full Thermal Incentive for Renewable Portfolio Standard
The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) today applauded New Hampshire Governor John Lynch and the state's Senate and House of Representatives for their passage of legislation (NH Senate Bill 218), a bill that adds thermal renewable energy to the state's renewable portfolio standard (RPS). RPS programs have been adopted in some 29 states and the District of Columbia to provide incentives to ...
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Frost & Sullivan finds winds of opportunity for Renewable Energy Markets in Australia and New Zealand
The governments of Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) are stepping up efforts to cut back carbon emissions and increase the share of renewable energy in the countries' energy mix. Australia has mandated that 20 per cent of its electricity be generated from renewable sources by 2020 and to this end, has introduced renewable energy targets (RET). This policy is the biggest incentive for investments in ...
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European Solar Days events expect more than a half-million participants
mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false false FR-BE X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Hundreds of thousands of European citizens will gather at events across the continent to show their support for solar energy during ...
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Air-condition your premises with engine exhaust and solar hot water
Do you use a generator that runs on diesel or gas to power your business due to frequent power outage from the grid? Are you running an air-conditioner with the grid power? Then you must look for waste heat recovery system to improve your energy efficiency and save your fuel cost. You can also use roof top solar hot water to supplement waste heat recovery. The savings may be substantial and you ...
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