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Seeking innovative cooling projects

BELGIUM: Projects on solar cooling, heat pumps and thermal energy storage are invited for presentation at an EC-backed re­new­able heat­ing and cool­ing technology event.

The selected projects will be presented at the annual event of the Eu­ro­pean Tech­nol­ogy and In­no­va­tion Plat­form on Re­new­able Heat­ing & Cool­ing (RHC-ETIP) being held in Brus­sels on June 20.

The pro­jects will be di­vided into seven tech­nol­ogy cat­e­gories: biomass, district heating and cooling, geothermal, heat pumps, hybrid systems, thermal energy storage and solar thermal heating and cooling. One pro­ject will be se­lected per cat­e­gory.

Officially endorsed by the European Commission, the RHC-ETIP aims to strengthen efforts towards research, development and technological innovation which will consolidate Europe’s leading position in the renewables sector.

The on­line ap­pli­ca­tion form can be found here. Dead­line is May 22, 2017.

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