According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), by the end of 2010, the solar thermal collector capacity in operation worldwide equalled 195.8GWth, corresponding to 279.7 million square meters; by the end of 2011 it was estimated to have grown by 25%, to 245GWth (Weiss and Mauthner, 2012).
Heating accounts for a significant proportion of the world’s total energy demand.In 2009, the IEA reported that global energy demand for heat represented 47% of final energy use, higher than final energy for electricity (17%) and transport (27%) combined. The large proportion of heat in final energy demand explains the substantial contribution that renewable heat - and thus solar heat - could make in meeting climate change and energy security objectives. (Source: IEA 2012)
OUR CORE COMPETENCIES - EVACUATED TUBE COLLECTORS
As a subsidiary of one of the technology leaders in the solar thermal heating market worldwide, we are able to offer you both: forced circulated systems (Evacuated tube collectors with and without CPC-reflector) and thermosiphons (solar water heaters). Our focus lies on our core competencies within the field of evacuated tube collectors (ETC) – the most distributed collector type by capacity in operation worldwide.