Solar heating and cooling Features for August 2009

Solar heating and cooling Features Archive

Highlights of India's 20 GW solar energy plans

This week India launched a major solar initiative - the National Solar Plan: Our India correspondent sets out the highlights.

Solar thermal – thriving in the shadows? Solar thermal – thriving in the shadows?

Solar thermal heating and cooling attracts less media attention and R&D funding than the more glamorous "high-tech" solar PV. Yet, this low profile player dominates the solar renewables market, accounting for 84%- as opposed to solar PV's 14%- according to Jes Donneborg, ceo of Denmark's Arcon Solvarme A/S. How can this be so and what are the prospects for solar thermal now?