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Welcome to www.solar-district-heating.eu, the website of the Intelligent Energy Europe 'SDHtake-off - Solar District Heating in Europe' and 'SDHplus – New Business Opportunities for Solar District Heating and Cooling' project! These projects are supporting the market rollout of solar district heating in Europe.

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Solar District Heating Update

The first conference on Solar District Heating created great international interest

With 120 participants from 19 countries and many different backgrounds, the first Solar District Heating conference in Malmö, Sweden was a success. Presentations are available under the documents section of the SDH website.

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Construction started for a new 35 000 m² solar district heating plant in Denmark

What will (at least for a short period) be the world’s largest solar thermal plant for district heating is now being constructed in Dronninglund in Denmark.

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Inauguration of the Energy Bunker in Hamburg

After six years of planning and building, the Second World War bunker which will deliver district heat to a district of Hamburg thanks to a combination of solar thermal collectors, large heat storage and other environmentally friendly energies has been inaugurated in March 2013 for the International Building Exhibition IBA.

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New SDH Guideline on calculation tools available

The solar district heating guidelines provide technical and non-technical thematic information about the implementation process of solar district heating plants. A new factsheet describes available calculation tools that can be used during the preliminary investigations. All solar district heating guidelines are available to download here.

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Italian District Heating Association AIRU founded a new internal committee for innovation in district heating networks

The new committee called 'Smart Cities' aims at deepening innovation issues. AIRU members take part voluntarily into the committee, sharing experiences and know-how and investigating new technical opportunities.

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Financing of large-scale solar thermal plants

Josef Robert Straninger, Country Coordinator of the Competence Center Renewable Energies at UniCredit Leasing, answered to solarthermalworld.org about the necessary steps for a successful financing of a large-scale solar thermal plant. The interview can be found here.

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World largest solar thermal plant in Chile

As of summer 2013, 39 300 m² solar collectors will cover more than 80% of the heat demand of a copper mine in the desert in northern Chile.

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Germany: Solar energy in district heating networks now stronger promoted

In Germany big solar thermal plants with at least 40 m² feeding in a district heating network are now particularly promoted. The operators receive up to 40 % of the investment costs as subsidy to amortisation from the German government owned development bank KfW, while the subsidy for stand-alone operated collectors stays by 30 %.

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SAED solar thermal collectors will provide heat for a district heating net in the south of France

The building phase of the solar districtheating of Juvignac in southern France will start in a few weeks. Cofely Services, subsidiary of GDF SUEZ in charge of the project selected SAED (Sophia Antipolis Energie Développement) to provide the solar thermal collectors.

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Italy: new subsidy scheme for solar thermal up to 1000 m²

Large solar thermal plants will receive an incentive of 55 €/m² per year, over a period of 5 years. It could be a good opportunity for solar district heating also.

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