Europe headed for hot water

Olivier Drucke, 43, the Franco-German marketing whiz who runs the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation (ESTIF) in Brussels, gave a rapid-fire talk on Thursday to explain how his coalition managed to get solar water heating mandated at 50% of all heating demand by 2050.

As a baseline, Drucke said, in 2007 China had the equivalent of about 80,000 MW of domestic solar water heating, and the United States about 22,000 MW – but it was mostly pool heating, outside Hawaii. Turkey had 7,000 MW, [...]

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