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Terms of use: The pictures on this site originate from the projects in the frame of the programmes City of Tomorrow, Building of Tomorrow and the IEA Research Cooperation. They may be used credited for non-commercial purposes under the Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC).

Evacuated tube PVT

The evacuated tube PVT array (Virtu PVT by Naked Energy) on the south facing façade of the Active Office building at the University of Swansea.

Music School Velden

Street view of the former fire station in Velden am Wörthersee - after the refurbishment used as a music school.

Konvent Building Kaiserstrasse in Vienna

Street view of the convent building in Kaiserstrasse, Vienna after being refurbished with particular attention to monument preservation and to a new solution for renovating Viennese-type box windows.

Historic Building Energy Retrofit Atlas

Starting page of the database www.HiBERatlas.com with best practice examples that show how historic buildings can be renovated so that high energy efficiency is achieved while respecting historic preservation.

TCM Storage System Prototype in Container for integration in a single familiy house

The picture is showing a TCM storage system with 3 moduels in combination with a heat pump system and 2 m³ buffer storage installed in a container as complete storage system. The container is shipped to a single familiy housein Warsaw and installed next to the house to store surplus of solar thermal energy from summer and provide space heating in winter

Overview Task 58 for Material and Component Development for Compact Thermal Storage Systems

The figur shows the overview and contents of the IEA SHC Task 58 for material and component development for compact heat storage. The task is divided into 4 subtasks dealing with the definition of boundary conditions, development of TCM and PCM materials, test methods and component design of compact heat storage systems.

Solar district heating system with power-to-heat

District heating system with heat supply from central solar collectors, industrial waste heat, heating centre, heat pump, and with short-term and seasonal thermal storage. Source of the heat pump is the saisonal storage. Excess power from PV and wind turbines is used to operate the heat pump.

Solar heat in smart cities

List of the main advantages of solar heat: it is emission-free and 100% renewable, it increases the energy security, the price is affordable and remains stable for at least 20 years, it replaces imported fueld and provide new jobs.

Attractiveness of SDH markets

Diagram with 4 areas according to DH technology readiness (low/high) and SDH market (small/large). Low readiness and small market is the case of Russia and Ukraine; low readiness and large market is the case of China; high readiness and small market is the case of France, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Canada, Latvia; high readiness and high market is the case of Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, which are technology leaders and role models.

Passys Test Cell

Measurement of the luminance of a solar facade in the Passys test cell of the UIBK

life cycle cost

Lines showing the smallest difference in life-cycle costs per non-renewable primary energy unit and HVAC configuration at office buildings in Stockholm (Sto), Stuttgart (Stu) and Rome. LCC includes investment, maintenance and operation over a 20-year period. HP stands for heat pump and DE for direct electric.

Final meeting of the IEA SHC Task 64 in Seville with a tour of Europe's largest solar process heat plant

The final meeting of the IEA SHC Task 64 took place in Seville. Europe's largest solar process heat plant was visited as part of the meeting. It was built in 2023 by Azteq/Solarlite, is operated by ENGIE Spain and supplies heat to the Heineken Sevilla brewery. In addition to the parabolic trough solar area of 43,000 m² (30 MW thermal output), high-temperature storage tanks (8 x 200 m³) ensure a high solar share of 60-70%.

High-temperature storage tanks at 160 °C ensure heat supply at night

The solar process heating plant was built in 2023 by Azteq/Solarlite, is operated by ENGIE Spain and supplies heat to the Heineken Sevilla brewery. In addition to the parabolic trough solar area of 43,000 m² (30 MW thermal output), high-temperature storage tanks (8 x 200 m³) ensure a high solar share of 60-70%.

Solar process heat system for Seville brewery

The solar process heating plant was built in 2023 by Azteq/Solarlite, is operated by ENGIE Spain and supplies heat to the Heineken Sevilla brewery. In addition to the parabolic trough solar area of 43,000 m² (30 MW thermal output), high-temperature storage tanks (8 x 200 m³) ensure a high solar share of 60-70%.

Solar process heat system for Seville brewery

The solar process heating plant was built in 2023 by Azteq/Solarlite, is operated by ENGIE Spain and supplies heat to the Heineken Sevilla brewery. In addition to the parabolic trough solar area of 43,000 m² (30 MW thermal output), high-temperature storage tanks (8 x 200 m³) ensure a high solar share of 60-70%.

Icing on structures on the nacelle of a wind turbine

Webcam image of superstructures on the nacelle of a wind turbine with recognizable icing, which corresponds to the structure and consistency of clear ice directly on the structures and changes to hard rime as it progresses. The turbine is located at a test site of the Nergica center of applied research in eastern Canada. The webcam image is part of a dataset in the “Task 54 Icing Event Database”.

Modeled performance envelopes of rotor blade heating systems

Modeled performance envelopes as curves depending on wind speed and ambient temperature for different values of liquid water content (LWC) and surface temperature of the rotor blade. The curves were calculated with the “Task 54 Performance Envelope Model”.

Group picture of the Task meeting in Calgary

Group picture of the participants of the task meeting following the “Electricity Transformation Canada” conference in Calgary in October 2023.

Task presentations at stakeholder meeting of IG Windkraft

Ian Baring-Gould (NREL, Task 41) giving a presentation on distributed wind's role in supporting the clean energy transition. Further presenters in the panel from left to right: Franziska Gerber (Meteotest, Task 54), Charles Goudreau (Nergica, Task 54), Andreas Krenn (Energiewerkstatt), Claas Rittinghaus (Energiewerkstatt, Task 54).

Group picture of participants of Task 41, 52 and 54

Group picture of the common Task meeting and dissemination workshop of Tasks 41, 52 and 54 in Vienna.