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9.4 Solar Thermal1990-1999

Key points from the IEA SHC data:
• IEA SHC collected data from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China (1997-1999), Germany, Lebanon,
The Netherlands, Sweden, Turkey, and USA. The Chinese data is only available from 1997 and 1999.
• Without that data available earlier in the decade, USA in 1990 installs 63.3% of the recorded capacity.
• When the Chinese data is included in the years 1997 to 1999, China’s installs between 55.3% (1997)
and 69.5% (1999) of the recorded capacity. Figure 68 shows the total recorded capacity breaking down
the data between China and the Rest of World (ROW).
• The figures provided for China showed that 80% of their installed capacity was evacuated tube collectors
(ETC) while in 1996 the total recorded installed ETC capacity for the ROW was only 1.88% compared
with Flat Plate Collectors (FPC).
• Figure 69 shows the growth in installed water heater collectors for 1990 to 1999 broken down into FPC
and ETC.

Figure 68: Annual recorded installed solar water panels capacity 1990-1999 broken down
into ROW and China
Source: IEA SHC

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