Potential for Solar Heat in Industrial Processes (Claudia Vannoni/Riccardo Battisti/Serena Drigo 2008)

The primary audience for this report are two target groups: the solar industry and policy makers. In reading this report, the solar industry will learn of a relevant and so far unexploited market sector, industrial applications. Moreover, policy makers will realise that an adequate promotion of solar thermal should be done not only for the most "traditional" residential applications, but also for innovative applications, among which solar process heat stands out. This report can serve as a tool for developing national and local campaigns and policies on solar thermal energy for industrial uses.

This booklet reports on the main outcomes of the potential studies performed in different countries all over the world and extrapolates these results to obtain an indicative figure of the potential application at the European level.

The country studies carried out in Austria, the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal), Italy and the Netherlands are included in this report as well as two regional studies (Wallonia for Belgium and Victoria for Australia) and two specific industrial sectors studies from Greece and Germany.