Franz Mauthner and Werner Weiss Solar Heat Worldwide: Markets and Contribution to the Energy Supply 2012

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AEE INTEC AEE - Institute for Sustainable Technologies A-8200 Gleisdorf, Austria IEA Solar Heating & Cooling Programme, June 2014, - 61p.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 asa 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 58 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 58 countries included in this report represent 4.4 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 ContentsBackgroundSummary Preview 2013Total capacity in operation by end of 2012General market overview of the total installed capacity in operationTotal capacity of glazed water collectors in operation Total capacity of glazed water collectors in operation by economic regionTotal capacity of unglazed water collectors in operationNewly installed capacity in 2012 and market development General market over view of newly installed capacity Newly installed capacity of glazed water collectors Market development of glazed water collectors between 2000 and 2012 Market development of unglazed water collectors between 2000 and 2012 Contribution to the energy supply and CO2 reduction Annual collector yield by economic regionAnnual energy savings by economic region Annual contribution to CO2 reduction by economic regionDistribution of systems by system type and application Distribution by type of solar thermal collector Distribution by type of systemDistribution 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 applications in EuropeMarket for solar air conditioning and cooling applications Good practice examples of world-wide installed solar process heat applicationsMarket for Solar Air Heating Systems