News story – Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the national trade association of the U.S. solar energy industry is ready to start gathering data on Solar heating and cooling (SHC) installations for its U.S. Solar Market Insight 2011 Solar Heating & Cooling Year in Review report. Stakeholders in the solar thermal industry are requested...
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SunTrac Teaming with GreenStone Partners for Global Ventures
News release – SunTrac Solar has announced a new strategic alliance with GreenStone Partners to pursue international joint ventures and attract investment. The 2 firms are working together to create joint ventures in China and Europe. GreenStone assists US Cleantech companies to expand internationally. SunTrac is pursuing licensed manufacturing partners for its solar thermal...
ST Alliance of Colorado — Solar Roadmap — Release Jan 2012
Report – The Solar Thermal Alliance of Colorado (which includes COSEIA) released a “roadmap” report on January 24th after nearly a year of working with stakeholders throughout the state to spur investment and local economic growth. The report provides Colorado with a new vision to make the state a global leader in solar thermal...
NREL — SREC Markets: Status and Trends — Release Nov 2011
Report – Solar renewable energy certificate (SREC) markets have emerged in a number of U.S. states to encourage the adoption of solar energy systems. SRECs represent the generation attributes of solar energy systems and can be traded separately from commodity electricity. A SREC is created for each megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity generated from solar...
SRCC Working With Stakeholders to Set Up 2012 Priority Standards
News story – The Solar Rating and Certification Corporation (SRCC) is seeking input from stakeholders in the solar heating and cooling industry in preparing its work plans for next year. SRCC is an independent U.S. non-profit entity that certifies solar thermal equipment and publishes performance ratings. “In 2012, we will focus on continued productivity...
Why Solar and Plumbing?
Opinion – If the recent SolarPower International tradeshow in Dallas this year was any indication, the plumbing industry is very hot on the potential sales of solar heating. Industry giants like Caleffi and others were eagerly exhibiting their solar heating goods and services in Texas at the October show. In fact, Caleffi is a...
TEVA Energy Funded For Growth in Commercial-Scale SWH Market
News release – Today, TEVA Energy and Redshift Energy announced their funding agreement. With Redshift’s financial support, TEVA Energy will further expand its reach into the large-scale commercial and industrial distributed solar water- heating markets in key geographic areas. TEVA deploys its proprietary line of cost-effective solar water heating (i.e. thermal solar) technologies in...
WGL Holdings and Skyline Team to Develop $30 Million of SWH Projects
News release – WGL Holdings, Inc. announced today its agreement to provide $30,000,000 of project capital to Skyline Innovations for the financing and deployment of commercial-scale solar water heating systems in key markets nationwide. “Our operational model and patent-pending software enable us to achieve returns for project investors” Skyline Innovations, based in Washington, DC,...
IEA SHC — Solar Air-Conditiong and Refrigeration — Release Oct 2011
Report – Close to a thousand solar assisted cooling (SAC) plants have been installed worldwide, which cover all types of technologies and sizes. This is of course a very early market in comparison to the tens of millions of compression air-conditioning systems sold worldwide every year. Recently, a number of large and very large...
IREC — 2011 Updates and Trends — Release Oct 2011
Report – The number of all solar installations completed in 2010 grew by 22% to over 124,000 installations (compared to the number completed in 2009). This figure includes grid- connected and off-grid PV, solar heating and cooling, solar pool heating and solar thermal electric. Through 2005, over half of these installations were for solar...