IEA SHC Solar Academy Webinar: Solar Hot Water for 2030: An IEA SHC Task in Review
On 28 and 30 October, ISES is happy to welcome IEA SHC to hold a webinar as part of the IEA SHC Solar Academy series presenting Solar Hot Water for 2030: An IEA SHC Task in Review.
About this webinar:
Hot water demand for kitchen and sanitary use is continuously growing globally and as countries adopt commitments and targets to run their economies on renewable energy, the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Program asked the question: How can solar hot water contribute to the sustainable energy transition for 2030?
Solar hot water has an installed base of ~800 million m2 (made up of glazed and unglazed thermal collectors), solar only supplied 12% (456 TWh) of the 3,750 TWh global residential hot water energy consumption. However, for the last 3 years Task 69 has worked on the barriers and opportunity to re-accelerate solar hot water’s development path through identifying best practices, emerging solar hot water components and systems, and mapping out the policy gaps for 2 technologies:
- Thermosyphons: The incumbent solar champion (~57% of domestic hot water systems in operation in 2019)
- PV Hot Water: The emerging player (anything from simple PV2Heat direct systems to advanced systems which aim to soak up excess PV).
In this webinar we will review some of the key results from Task 69 on thermosyphon systems (i.e., failure modes, success stories, and advances, presented by STB lead Bojia LI) and on PV water heaters (i.e., configuration options, opportunities, barriers, and policy needs, presented by STC lead Tony Day).
Speakers:
- Prof Li Bojia (Solar Energy Application Center, China Academy of Building Research): “GHG Emissions Reductions Testing in China for Thermosyphon Systems”
- Tony Day (Independent Consultant / IERC): "PV Hot Water configurations, opportunities, barriers, and policy needs"
- Prof Robert Taylor (University of New South Wales): "Introduction and Task 69 Overview"
Moderator:Bärbel Epp (Solrico)
These webinars are organised by the Solar Academy of the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme and hosted by ISES, the International Solar Energy Society.
ISES and the IEA SHC Solar Academy are happy to announce that this webinar will be held twice, first on 28 October at 2 PM GMT/UTC and again on 30 October at 6 AM GMT/UTC to accommodate our global audience, especially from Australia and Asia.
