Solar Heat News
Date: Friday 04. of March 2016
As the UK government launched a consultation on the future of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) support scheme, on the 3rd of March, proposing an end to the support of solar thermal hot water heating, the British solar thermal industry strongly reacted against this proposal, as the latest Solar Trade Association press release shows.
In the past weeks, ESTIF intensively collaborated with the Solar Trade Association in order to try to avoid such a negative outcome, by providing data and...
Date: Friday 04. of March 2016
ESTIF’s Board of Directors (BoD) had a full agenda for its first meeting of 2016, held on the 28th of January in Barcelona The assemble was hosted at BAXI Calefaccion, by the Board member José-António Perez, from BDR Thermea.
During the meeting the Board received a general update on ESTIF’s activities, evaluated ESTIF’s General Assembly (GA) and discussed several follow-up topics coming from the GA, such as the issue of a collector label, the implementation of ESTIF’s name...
Date: Friday 04. of March 2016
On the 1st of March, ESTIF's Secretary General Pedro Dias participated in a meeting between the recently formed RES Steering Committee and the Director General of DG ENER, Dominique Ristori.
The meeting was a first-of-its-kind for the RES Steering Committee putting together in an informal way all Secretary Generals and CEOs of the renewable energy industries trade associations in Brussels, with the aim of coordinating actions towards EU policy-making.
RES Steering Committee members expressed...
Date: Thursday 03. of March 2016
New communication tools for ESTIF members
This is the first edition of the new ESTIF newsletter, called “Solar Heat News”, issued jointly with the “Members Briefing Service”, replacing the popular “Policy Briefing”.
We have changed both tools taking into account the inputs received from our members.
Solar Heat News – by e-mail
Regular, short and simple. This was the motto. It includes similar sections as before, though it will be lighter and more regular. At this initial stage it will be...