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Solar Heat Worldwide

Solar Heat WorldwideThis report was pr pared within the framework of the Solar Heating and Cooling Programme (SHC) of the International Energy Agency (IEA). The goal of the re port is to document the solar thermal capacity previously installed in the important markets worldwide, and to ascertain the contribution of solar plants to the supply of energy and the CO2 emissions avoided as a result of operating these plants. The collectors documented are unglazed collectors, glazed flat-plate and evacuated tube collectors with water as the energy carrier as well as glazed and unglazed air collectors.

The data were collected within the framework of a questionnaire survey of the national delegates of the Executive Committee of the SHC Programme and other national experts active in the field of solar thermal energy. Since some of the 49 countries included in this report have very detailed statistics and others could only prvide estimates from experts, the data was checked for its plausibility on the basis of various publications.

Starting with the collector area, the capacity installed, the contributions of solar plants to wards the supply of energy and the reduction of CO2 were ascertained.

The 49 countries included in this report represent 4 billion people, which is about 60% of the world's population. The installed capacity in these countries is estimated to represent 85-90% of the solar thermal market worldwide.

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