Projects

The aim of CombiSol is an increase of the market share of solar thermal combi-systems in Europe accompanied by the optimization of the system quality. The evaluation and the monitoring of 10 systems in Austria are main tasks in the project.

As the market share of combisystems is increasing in most of the European countries but is nevertheless quite small, CombiSol will encourage an accelerated growth in the share of heat produced by solar energy and will promote the quality increase, by tackling some non-technological barriers, thanks to:

• promotion of best practices for solar combisystems, both for new and existing buildings,
• promotion of standardised systems and cost-effective solutions,
• recommendations to manufacturers with regard to combisystems design,
• training of installers,
• development of specific dimensioning tools in order to facilitate the recommendation for solar combisystems based on the EPBD methodology,
• increasing consumers confidence with information on energy efficiency of solar combisystems, based on in-situ monitoring and lab tests

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Project management:

• DI. Dr. Alexander Thür

Client:

EU Kommission – Executive Agency for Competitivness and Innovation (EACI)

Progress:

ongoing

Project partner:

CEA – Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique – Frankreich

INES – National Institute for Solar Energy – Frankreich

Universität Stuttgart – Institut für Thermodynamik und Wärmetechnik – Deutschland

ADEME - Agence de l’Environment et de la Maîtrise de l’Energie – Frankreich

PlanEnergi – Dänemark

Högskolan Dalarna - Schweden

SERC - Solar Energy Research Center - Högskolan Dalarna - Sweden

• www.combisol.eu