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Market and technology trends in the global PVT sector

Europe is the leading region worldwide for PVT technology. Of the global 1.6 million m2 of PVT collectors in operation, 64 % are installed in Europe. The...

Insights into global PVT market development

The demand for PVT collectors has grown rapidly in the last two years. Annual sales of PVT capacity increased 57% to 167,165m2 in 2021, after growth of...

PVT Systems: One on One with Jean-Christophe Hadorn

The SHC Programme completed its most recent work on PVT Systems (Task 60) in December 2020. To learn how this Task impacted this market sector,...

PVT Systems: Heat or Electricity From Solar – Why Only One When You Can Have Both?

A solar PV/Thermal (PVT) collector produces both heat and electricity thanks to a combination of a PV panel and a solar thermal collector or absorber....

Global PVT market on track for more growth

PVT collectors – which use solar radiation to produce both heat and electricity – have been gaining in popularity in a rising number of markets around...

Australian PV Institute (APVI) Highlights SHC PVT Technology Position Paper

Photovoltaic Thermal (PVT) can increase energy yield per square meter by extracting heat from PV panels, and diverting that energy into the building’s...

PV-Thermal: Major markets and most sought-after technologies

IEA SHC Task 60, Application of PVT Collectors, shows how a fruitful collaboration between industry and research can lead to a thorough analysis of current...

END of Task 60

Task 60 has officially ended on Dec 31, 2020.

SHC Technology Position Paper: PVT Collectors and Systems

The quest to decarbonize society's electrical and thermal systems has never been more urgent.  In this Technology Position Paper, experts of IEA SHC Task...

Trigeneration with PVT ? here is a nice example from Spain

This Spanish plant is based on solar hybrid PVT collectors integrated with a reversible heat pump (vapour-compression unit) for heating, cooling, electricity...

Task 60 highlights 2020 is available in the publications section of the Task60 website

The "Task highlights" is the summary of work achieved during 2020.

Little support for PV-thermal despite high yields

PVT applications do not receive nearly as much support as solar thermal or PV systems do. Incentive schemes especially often do not include funding for...

Fact sheets show 30 operational PV-thermal systems

PV-thermal installations are extremely versatile systems, and their manufacturers can cater to a wide variety of customers, single- and multi-family building...

Report A1 of Task 60 about PVT examples is discussed on solarthermalworld,com

Hybrid solutions maximise solar yield per area

A record 840 people registered for the PVT solutions for buildings and industry webinar in order to learn more about the wide range of applications in...

March 25 2020 - A SHC ISES webinar on PVT systems !

Task 60 experts will give a Webinar on PVT on March 2020 on internet. Exact time and how to attend will be communicated as soon as possible. Check also...

A solar PVT DHW system studied in DK

The performance of the system was assessed using selected key performance indicators. A parametric analysis was performed identifying component sizes that...

Solar World Congress : A keynote speech on PVT by Korbinian Kramer

On Nov. 4 2019 in Santiago de Chile at the Solar World congress and also SHC 2019 conference, Korbinian our Subtask B leader, gave a talk on PVT. This...

PV-Thermal collector area tops 1 million

PV-Thermal systems, which generate heat and electricity from the same collector, are gaining ever more traction: For the first time, they have now been...

Cost of PVT: how to calculate ?

A LCOH method to calcule the cost of energy from PVT systems

Task60 has held a webinar on PVT certification in March 2019

In this webinar, moderator Andreas Häberle (SHC Task 60 Subtask D) welcomes Andreas Bohren (Solar Keymark), Laetitia Brottier (DualSun), Shawn Martin...

A PVT installation in Spain

  The solar PVT industry participation from several countries in Task 60 is to be noticed. In Spain a 80-PVT solar hybrid installation located...

The market requires simple plug-and-play solutions

Spanish-based supplier Endef is seeing increased demand for both its covered and uncovered PV-thermal systems produced in-house in Saragossa. Last year...

A top scientific paper from Maria Herrando and al. on PVT collector optimal design

The paper is published in Science Direct: Herrando M, Ramos A, Zabalza I, Markides CN. A comprehensive assessment of alternative absorber-exchanger designs...

PVT in South Africa

A new project in Cape Town featuring a PVT solution! www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/15-on-oranges-pvt-energy-system-now-fully-operational-2018-12-11/rep_id:4136See

PVT and seasonal storage: innovative technologies in Spain

Local production of PVT panels and systems which achieve high solar fractions by using seasonal storage: This is the main objective of Spanish start-up...

Abora on solarthermalworld.org

ABORA systems are making market insights

Israeli firm offers large variety of PVT systems

Homes, hospitals, hotels, industrial facilities and greenhouses (see photo): These are some of the many uses for turnkey PV systems produced by Millennium...

ISES Webinar on Solar Thermal markets and PVT June 12, 2018

see the recording of the 3 presentations and the discussion

PVT increasingly used for net zero energy buildings

A rising number of manufacturers and suppliers in Europe are offering combined photovoltaic and solar thermal systems, also known as PVT units. This was...

International Seminar on the Status of PVT Systems

The seminar on the current status of PVT collectors and systems, took place in Freiburg on May 16th prior to the first experts´ meeting of IEA SHC Task...

French PVT market is picking up

The IEA’s Solar Heating and Cooling Programme will create its own international research platform on PVT systems in January 2018. Researchers and industry...