AEE INTEC AEE - Institute for Sustainable Technologies A-8200 Gleisdorf, Austria IEA Solar Heating & Cooling Programme, June 2015, - 68 p.This report was prepared within the framework of the Solar Heating and Cooling Programme (SHC) of the International Energy Agency (IEA). The goal of the report is to document the solar thermal capacity installed in the important markets worldwide, and to ascertain the contribution of solar thermal systems to the supply of energy and the CO2 emissions avoided as a result of operating these systems. The collectors documented are unglazed collectors, glazed flat-plate collectors (FPC) and evacuated tube collectors (ETC) with water as the energy carrier as well as glazed and
unglazed air collectors.
The data were collected from a survey of the national delegates of the SHC Programme’s Executive Committee and other national experts active in the field of solar thermal energy. As some of the 60 countries included in this report have very detailed statistics and others have only estimates from experts, the data was checked for its plausibility on the basis of various publications.
Starting with the collector area, respectively the capacity installed, the contributions of solar thermal systems towards the supply of energy and the reduction of CO2 were ascertained.
The 60 countries included in this report represent 4.5 billion people, or about 63% of the world’s population. The installed capacity in these countries is estimated to represent 95% of the solar thermal market worldwide.Table of Contents
Background
Summary
Preview 2014
Total capacity in operation by end of 2013
General market overview of the total installed capacity in operation
Total capacity of glazed water collectors in operation
Total capacity of glazed water collectors in operation by economic region
Total capacity of unglazed water collectors in operation
Newly installed capacity in 2013 and market development
Generalmarketoverviewofnewlyinstalledcapacity
Newlyinstalledcapacityofglazedwatercollectors
Market development of glazed water collectors between 2000 and 2013
Market development of unglazed water collectors between 2000 and 2013
Contribution to the energy supply and CO2 reduction
Annual collector yield by economic region
Annual energy savings by economic region
Annual contribution to CO2 reduction by economic region
Distribution of systems by system type and application
Distribution by type of solar thermal collector
Distribution by type of system
Distribution by kind of application
Exceptional markets and applications for solar thermal systems
Overview of global megawatt-scale solar thermal applications
Large-scale solar district heating and cooling applicationsinEurope
Market for solar airconditioning and cooling applications
Best practice examples of worldwide installed solar process heat applications
Market for Solar Air Heating Systems
