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Homepage: http://www.northsun.org/
Email: info@northsun.org
Organizers: Kees van der Leun
Description:
2001: A Solar Odyssey
Solar energy is a clean, inexhaustible and readily available source of energy, and the amount of solar radiation that reaches the Earth is many times greater than the total energy consumption of mankind. Buildings offer many opportunities for the utilisation of solar energy. The North Sun 2001 Conference brings you the latest technological developments in this field, with an emphasis on solar heating, but not forgetting solar power.
Since 1984, the North Sun conferences have grown into an outstanding forum for the effective exchange of results from research, development, and practical application for scientists, policy makers and all those related to the expansion of the solar energy markets. A speciality of North Sun is the application of solar energy at high latitudes, where cold winters create a higher heat demand, and the large seasonal differences in irradiation ask for state-of-the-art energy storage.
North Sun 2001 builds on this tradition, and continues on the path of the `Solar Odyssey'. Now that substantial markets for solar energy systems are beginning to develop, the Conference theme chosen is: 'Technology Meets Market'. How can research and development respond to the challenges met in market development? What policies are successful in bringing solar technologies to the market? These are the exciting questions that will be covered in the conference.
1. Policy and community Subfields: successful market approaches and policies, Solar Cities, Solar opportunities at the community level, Utilities and solar energy, green energy, and related subjects. Presentations in this subject should not just describe local projects or policies, but combine different experiences into overviews and recommendations. 2. Solar Energy in Buildings Subfields: Building integration, Low Energy and energy producing buildings, Passive solar heating and cooling, Daylighting and energy efficient windows, PV systems, PV and solar houses, Atria, Architecture, and related subjects. 3. Solar Technology for high latitudes Subfields: Solar collectors, active heating and cooling systems, seasonal storage technologies, PV/thermal hybrid systems, Modelling, simulation, analytical tools, radiation and resource assessment and related subjects 4. Solar Energy Education This topic will be discussed either in the conference or in a special workshop.
Date received: November 10, 2000
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