Solar-based decarbonisation strategies for industry: market development, innovations and successful business models
Decarbonisation of the heat demand in industry is one of the major challenges on the way towards climate neutrality. Multinational cooperations increasingly use onsite solar heat systems to achieve parts of their internal climate protection goals. Mega trends are: Heat-as-a-service contracts and high-temperature collector solutions.
Speakers
Bärbel Epp
Bärbel Epp is the founder and managing director of the German market research and communication agency solrico. She is responsible for the international newsletter of the web portal www.solarthermalworld.org, reporting exclusively about market and technology trends in the solar heating and cooling sector globally. solrico also created the first online World Map of SHIP suppliers (SHIP = Solar Heat for Industrial Processes) see www.solar-payback.com/suppliers and carries out surveys among the around 70 companies listed on the world map annually. Bärbel Epp has been author of the SHC chapter of the annual Global Status Report on Renewables published by REN21 between 2016 and 2022. She graduated in Physics at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.