Solar Thermal Conference Wels
| Date: | 04 - 05 March 2010 |
| Venue: | A-4600 Wels, Upper Austria/Austria |
| Conference fee: | 120 Euro (plus 10% VAT) |
| Conference languages: | English, German |
| Organisation and conference office: | O.O. Energiesparverband Landstraße 45, 4020 Linz, Austria Tel. +43/732/7720-14386 Fax +43/732/7720-14383 office [AT] esv.or [DOT] at |
PROGRAMME
4 March 2010
14.00 Opening & Welcome
- Solar thermal markets today and tomorrow
Xavier Noyon, Secretary General, ESTIF - Potentials of solar thermal energy in Europe
Reinhard Haas, Technische Universität Wien, Austria - Quality assurance for solar collectors: from the production to end use
Matthias Rommel, Director, Institut für Solartechnik, Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil, Switzerland - Upper Austria - a successful solar thermal strategy
Christiane Egger, Deputy General Manager, O.Ö. Energiesparverband, Austria - Lessons for solar water heating from solar testing
Danny Parker, Florida Solar Energy Centre, USA
16.00 Discussion/Coffee break
16.30 Technologies and programmes
- Air collectors - new developments and opportunities
Gerhard Stryi-Hipp, European Solar Thermal Technology Platform/Fraunhofer ISE
- Compact thermal energy storage - assessing different options
Wim van Helden, Wim van Helden Renewable Heat/ASiC, The Netherlands
- Large-scale solar district heating plants
Jan Erik Nielsen, PlanEnergi, Denmark
- Solar air conditioning - trends and future developments
Alexander Morgenstern, Fraunhofer Institut für Solare Energiesysteme, Germany
- Solar water heaters for developing countries
Navratna Mal Nahar, Central Arid Zone Research Institute, India - Towards 1000 solar thermal roofs in Croatia
Julije Domac, Managing Director, North-West Croatia Regional Energy Agency, Croatia - HOSPISOL - a successful programme for solar thermal contracting
Jorge Jové Sandoval, Ente Regional de la Energía de Castilla y León, Spain
19.00 End
19.00 Evening programme
5 March 2010
9.15 Current developments of international solarthermal markets (English only)
- Opening & Welcome
- Germany: Werner B. Koldehoff, Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft (BSW)
- Austria: Roger Hackstock, Austria Solar
- Spain: David Pérez, eclareon
- France: Richard Loyen, General Secretary, ENERPLAN
- Ireland: Paul Dykes, Sustainable Energy Ireland
- Czech Republic: Ivana Klobušníková, Energy Centre České Budějovice
- Poland: Grzegorz Wisniewski, President, EC BREC/IEO
- China: Zheng Ruicheng, China Academy of Building Research
- Innovative policies for renewable heating and cooling
Wolfgang Hiegl, WIP Renewable Energies, Germany
Discussion
Chairperson: Uwe Trenkner, Trenkner Consulting
13.15 End of conference
Solar thermal is a key technology in achieving European targets in the field of renewable energy and climate protection. It has been seeing a strong market growth in many European countries. According to the European Solar Thermal Technology Platform, solar thermal could cover - in combination with energy efficiency measures - up to 50 % of the total heat demand in Europe by 2030.
The Solar Thermal Conference Wels will present innovative technologies and solutions, such as solar cooling, solar process heat or innovative approaches to thermal storage. It will also discuss market trends in Europe and beyond as well as innovative financing solutions and policies and programmes promoting solar thermal.
The location of the conference is very well chosen: with more than 700 m2 per 1000 inhabitants, Upper Austria is a leading solar region worldwide and with 1,000,000 m2 of installed solar collectors clearly the number one in Austria.
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