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The following publications are recommended reading by SHC Task Operating Agents and experts:
Task 49 - Solar Process Heat for Production and Advanced Applications
Process Intensification - Engineering for Efficiency, Sustainability and Flexibility. 2nd Edition
2013
Task 48 - Quality Assurance and Support Measures for Solar Cooling
Position Paper: Solar Cooling
September 2015 - PDF 0.36MB
Task 47 - Solar Renovation of Non-Residential Buildings
Lessons learned from 20 Non-Residential Building Renovations
February 2015 - PDF 1.76MB
Market Change: Upgrading of the non-residential building stock towards nZEB standard
December 2014 - PDF 2.06MB
Position Paper: Solar Renovation of Non-Residential Buildings
September 2015 - PDF 1.49MB
Sustainable Refurbishments, School Buildings
January 2015 - PDF 17.22MB
Task 46 - Solar Resource Assessment and Forecasting
Best Practices for Solar Irradiance Measurements with Rotating Shadowband Radiometers
August 2015 - PDF 3.11MB
Best Practices Handbook for the Collection and Use of Solar Resource Data for Solar Energy Applications
February 2015 - PDF 8.71MB
Task 44 - Solar + Heat Pump Systems
Position Paper: Solar and Heat Pump Systems
September 2014 - PDF 0.53MB
Solar and Heat Pump Systems for Residential Buildings
August 2015
Task 42 - Compact Thermal Energy Storage
Position Paper: Compact Thermal Energy Storage: Material Development for System Integration
August 2015 - PDF 0.2MB
Task 40 - Net Zero Energy Solar Buildings
Evaluation Tool for Net Zero Energy Buildings: Application on Office Buildings
March 2013 - PDF 0.29MB
Modelling, Design, and Optimization of Net-Zero Energy Buildings
March 2015
Solution Sets for Net-Zero Energy Buildings
April 2017
Towards Net Zero Energy
PDF 1.87MB
Task 39 - Polymeric Materials for Solar Thermal Applications
Polymeric Materials for Solar Thermal Applications
December 2012
Task 38 - Solar Assisted Cooling Systems
Position Paper: Solar Cooling
October 2011 - PDF 0.67MB
Task 37 - Advanced Housing Renovation with Solar & Conservation
Advanced and Sustainable Housing Rennovation Handbook
PDF 15.2MB
Task 34 - Testing and Validation of Building Energy Simulation Tools
Empirical Validations of Shading/Daylighting/Load Interactions in Building Energy Simulation Tools
August 2007 - PDF 3.48MB
International Energy Agency Building Energy Simulation Test and Diagnostic Method (IEA BESTEST)
September 2008 - PDF 3.24MB
Task 33 - Solar Heat for Industrial Process
Potential for Solar Heat in Industrial Processes
2008 - PDF 1.93MB
Process Heat Collectors
2008 - PDF 0.84MB
Task 32 - Advanced Storage Concepts for Solar and Low Energy Buildings
Thermal Energy Storage for Solar and Low Energy Buildings - State of the Art
June 2005
Task 28 - Solar Sustainable Housing
Sustainable Solar Housing - 2 Volumes
Task 20 - Solar Energy in Building Renovation
Solar Renovation Demonstration Projects
October 1998 - PDF 1.39MB
Task 16 - Photovoltaics in Buildings
Photovoltaics in Buildings: A Design Handbook for Architects and Engineers
1995 - PDF 9.75MB
Task 14 - Advance Active Solar Energy Systems
Advanced Solar Domestic Hot Water Systems
October 1996 - PDF 2.08MB
Task 13 - Advance Solar Low Energy Buildings
Solar Energy Houses: Strategies, Technologies, Examples
1996
Task 12 - Building Energy Analysis and Design Tools for Solar Applications
ADELINE Software (Integrated Daylighting and Lighting Computer Design Tool)
February 1994
Atrium Models for the Analysis of Thermal Comfort and Energy Use
March 1996 - PDF 38.54MB
Building Energy Simulation Test (BESTEST) and Diagnostic Methods
February 1995
Empirical Validation of Thermal Building Simulation Programs Using Test Room Data Vol. 1
September 1994 - PDF 7.12MB
Empirical Validation of Thermal Building Simulation Programs Using Test Room Data Vol. 2
September 1994 - PDF 3.83MB
Empirical Validation of Thermal Building Simulation Programs Using Test Room Data Vol. 3
September 1994 - PDF 7.84MB
Task 11 - Passive and Hybrid Solar Commercial Buildings
Passive Solar Commercial and Institutional Buildings
March 1994
Task 8 - Passive and Hybrid Solar Low Energy Buildings
Design Information Booklet No. 1 - Energy Design Principles in Buildings
July 1988 - PDF 2.93MB
Design Information Booklet No. 2 - Design Context
1988 - PDF 7.22MB
Design Information Booklet No. 3 - Design Guidelines: An International Summary
July 1990 - PDF 0.82MB
Design Information Booklet No. 4 - Design Tool Selection and Use
December 1988 - PDF 1.79MB
Design Information Booklet No. 5 - Construction Issues
August 1989 - PDF 0.68MB
Design Information Booklet No. 6 - Passive Solar Homes: Case Studies
December 1990 - PDF 6.19MB
Design Information Booklet No. 8 - Post-Construction Activities
August 1989 - PDF 0.38MB
Performance Evaluation Procedures
October 1988 - PDF 3.25MB
Workshops and Special Working Groups
Dynamic Testing of Solar Domestic Hot Water Systems, Volumes A and B
December 1992
Performance and Durability Assessment of Optical Materials for Solar Thermal Systems
January 2004
Newsletters
Solar Update - December 2016
December 2016 - PDF 2.09MB
Solar Update - May 2015
May 2015 - PDF 3.33MB
Solar Update - November 2015
November 2015 - PDF 1MB
Solar Heat Worldwide
Solar Heat Worldwide 2013
June 2013 - PDF 1.33MB
Solar Heat Worldwide 2016
June 2016 - PDF 1.35MB
Solar Heat Worldwide 2017
April 2017 - PDF 3.55MB
Other
Task 53: Solar Cooling 2.0 A New Generation Is Growing Up
November 2015 - PDF 0.17MB
Other
Task 54: Price Reduction of Solar Thermal Systems
November 2015 - PDF 0.11MB
Subtasks
Report on Life cycle analysis
January 2015 - PDF 9.97MB
IEA SHC Annual Reports
IEA SHC Annual Report 2014
May 2015 - PDF 3.67MB
IEA SHC Annual Report 2015
July 2016 - PDF 4.93MB
IEA SHC Annual Report 2016
June 2017 - PDF 2.32MB
Task 2 - Coordination of Solar Heating and Cooling R&D
Compilation of Background Papers on National Solar Heating and Cooling Programs
January 1983 - PDF 0.71MB
Subtasks
T50 B.6 Daylighting and electric lighting retrofit solutions - A source book of IEA SHC Task 50
October 2016
Subtasks
IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable A1.2 - Overheating prevention and stagnation handling in solar process heat applications
January 2015 - PDF 1.69MB
IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable A1.3 - Process Heat Collectors - State of the Art and Available Medium Temperature Collectors
May 2016 - PDF 1.39MB
IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable A2.1 - Comparison of process heat collectors with respect to technical and economic conditions
April 2016 - PDF 1.48MB
IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable A3.1 - Guideline on testing procedures for collectors used in solar process heat
November 2015 - PDF 1.52MB
Subtasks
IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable B1 - Methodologies and Software Tools for Integrating Solar Heat into Industrial Processes
February 2015 - PDF 1.66MB
IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable B2 - Integration Guideline
February 2015 - PDF 3.12MB
IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable B3 - Updated Efficiency Finder
December 2015 - PDF 1.24MB
IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable B4 - Catalogue of recommended components for advanced integration
February 2016 - PDF 0.22MB
IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable B5 - Potential Enhancement of Solar Process Heat by Emerging Technologies
March 2016 - PDF 0.89MB
IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable B6 - Integrating Solar Heat into Industrial Processes (SHIP)
May 2016 - PDF 0.86MB
Subtasks
IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable C2 - Overview and description of simulation tools for solar industrial process heat systems
August 2015 - PDF 1.26MB
IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable C3 - Performance assessment methodology and simulation case studies
March 2016 - PDF 0.65MB
IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable C4 - Best practise series of case study reports from demonstration projects
August 2016 - PDF 1.89MB
IEA SHC Task 49/IV - Deliverable C5 - Potential studies on solar process heat worldwide
October 2015 - PDF 0.61MB
Subtasks
Final deliverable report on Heat Rejection Systems for solar cooling
January 2014 - PDF 3.63MB
Final Report on Pumps Efficiency and Adaptability
December 2015 - PDF 4.03MB
Final report on State of the art on new collectors & characterization for solar cooling
December 2015 - PDF 0.42MB
Subtasks
Report for self-detection on monitoring procedure
January 2015 - PDF 5.07MB
Subtasks
Final report Measurement and Verification Procedures
January 2013 - PDF 3.44MB
Final report on Contracting Models for Solar Thermally Driven Cooling and Heating Systems
September 2014 - PDF 1.99MB
Review of relevant international standards rating and incentive schemes
January 2013 - PDF 1.43MB
Other
Task 46: Best Practices: Solar Irradiance Measurements with Rotating Shadowband Irradiometers (Summary from SHC Newsletter)
November 2015 - PDF 0.16MB
Subtasks
T.41.B.3 Solar design of buildings for architects: Review of solar design tools
July 2012 - PDF 11.46MB
General Programme Reports
A Fundamental Look At Supply Side Energy Reserves For The Planet
November 2015 - PDF 0.15MB
Country Highlight: Spain - A Sunny Paradise Truncated by a Financial Crisis: The Building Code Experience
November 2015 - PDF 0.24MB
IEA SHC Publishes 2016 Edition of its Seminal Report – Solar Heat Worldwide
June 2016 - PDF 0.17MB
International Solar Energy Society Joins IEA SHC
May 2016 - PDF 0.13MB
Solar Thermal = Savings of Over 118 Million Tons of CO2 Annually
November 2015 - PDF 0.15MB
Technology Roadmap: Solar Heating and Cooling
July 2012 - PDF 3.32MB
The Potential of Solar Thermal Technologies in a Sustainable Energy Future
February 2010 - PDF 3.94MB