Solar Heat News
Date: Saturday 05. of March 2016
ESTESC, the European Solar Thermal Energy Standardisation & Certification working group, held its 3rd annual meeting on the 22nd of February in Brussels.
ESTESC is an initiative of ESTIF and the Association of the European Heating Industry (EHI), in cooperation with the German associations BSW Solar and BDH. Currently, almost 40 experts are registered in at least one of the subgroups of ESTESC: Energy labelling, standardization, certification.
The meeting was hosted at EHI's...
Date: Saturday 05. of March 2016
ESTIF participated in an EurActiv event held on the 24th of February at the European Parliament called “State of the Energy Union: Policy influencers debate the 1st year’s progress”.
This event counted with the participation of the European Commission Vice-President for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic, the Chairman of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, and a representative of the Dutch Presidency of the EU, besides other renowned actors on...
Date: Saturday 05. of March 2016
ESTIF signed an annual agreement with the Brussels-based media platform Euractiv. The famed media outlet provides online publication of in-depth information on European news and EU Policies.
Present across Europe and publishing articles in 12 languages, EurActiv also has content sharing agreements with well-known newspapers, such as The Guardian, Der Tagesspiegel, El País and La Tribune. This agreement with EurActiv will help ESTIF gain visibility in Brussels’ EU networks and to promote...
Date: Friday 04. of March 2016
The "Solar Thermal Energy for Europe 2020" workshop will be a unique opportunity to address the Research & Innovation priorities for the sector over the coming years.
The workshop, co-organised by ESTTP and ESTIF will start at 14:00 on the 7th of April and end around 12:00 on the 8th, taking place in Brussels, Belgium. All registered participants are invited to experience a networking dinner on the evening of the 7th, after the brokerage event.
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Date: Friday 04. of March 2016
In accordance with the European Commission’s recently upgraded integrated SET-Plan, the European Technology Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling Platform officially became a European Technology and Innovation Platform (ETIP). This unanimous decision was taken at the last RHC-Platform Board meeting, on the 26th January.
ETIPs shall build on the work of the European Industrial Initiatives (EIIs) and the European Technology Platforms (ETPs), by combining these two concepts...
