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10.4 Solar Thermal 2000-2009
From 2000’s onwards concerns about climate change growing so many government subsidy programs lead
to large increases in the market across the 2000’s.
Key points from the IEA SHC data:
• IEA SHC collected data from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde, China, Germany, India, Lebanon,
The Netherlands, Sweden, Turkey, and USA.
• The total recorded annual installed capacity increased from 9 million m in 2000 to 49.5 million m in 2009.
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This is shown in Figure 84.
• China dominance of the market grew from being 71.5% of the total recorded annual installed capacity in
2000 to 84.9% in 2009.
• In 2000 ETC’s represented 58% of the recorded annual installed capacity and this grew to 82% in 2009.
• The dominance of ETC’s is due to the China market where in 2000 80% of the annual installed capacity
were ETC’s growing to 95.2% in 2009. In the ROW ETC represented only 4% growing to 9% in 2009.
• Air collector heater data was being collected by the IEA SHC however prior to 2000 data was only for
USA while for 2000 to 2010 data was collected for USA and Canada. Canada was the larger of the two
markets representing 85.8% in 2000 and 95.8% in 2009. Figure 85 shows the annual installed capacity of
air collector heater panels for USA and Canada.
Figure 84: Annual recorded installed solar water panel capacity 2000-2009 broken down into ETC and FPC
Source: IEA SHC
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