Heat Supplier's Interest in Solar District Heating Is Growing

摘要

In the last years Denmark showed an impressive success story regarding solar district heating. Since 2010 a capacity of about 500 MW(th) has been newly installed, in large part without any subsidies. The largest plant presently under construction will have a total collector area of 15 ha and a thermal capacity of 100 MW(th). In other European countries, the framework of the heating and cooling sectors might significantly differ from the particular situation in Denmark. But also in Germany, Austria and other new markets, large scale solar thermal becomes nowadays an interesting and economically competitive heat generation option for district heating and cooling. In many local communities, heat suppliers are presently assessing, developing and realizing new solar district heating projects together with local administrations and players.