Since the Lisbon conference, international business has been dominated by the world financial and economic crisis. However, the solar thermal market has successfully resisted the crisis so far. R&D has led to many promising innovations and developments in fields such as the supply of heating for buildings, process heat and solar cooling.

Conference Topics include:

• Solar energy in architecture
• Net zero energy buildings
• Energy efficiency in buildings through solar applications
• Large-scale solar thermal applications
• Advanced solar domestic hot water heating
• Solar space heating with a high solar fraction
• Solar energy for industrial and commercial applications
• Solar cooling and air conditioning
• Solar collector technology
• Thermal energy storage
• Engineering and simulation tools
• Testing and certification
• Solar radiation and solar energy availability
• Other solar energy related topics
• Other components of solar thermal systems