Welcome to solrico
solrico is an agency for solar market research and international communication – focusing on the solar heating and cooling sector. Our vision is that solar heating and cooling will become a mature, recognized technology all around the world playing an important role in climate protection and emission reduction. We are convinced that the provision of accurate, timely and independent market and technology analysis is an important contribution to realize such targets.
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- Up-to-date solar thermal news and first-hand market data for sector professionals
Worldwide overview of the collector manufacturing industry from low to high temperature applications - Tailor-made analysis of current technological or market trends
Sales analyses: attractive market segments compared between different countries - A chair for a conference or conference session focusing on solar heating and cooling markets or technologies
- A distribution partner for a public proposal on the national or international level
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Heat storage market is getting hotter
Solrico has published a worldwide overview of high-temperature storage solution providers on solarthermalworld.org in March 2024. We were able to identify more than 30 high temperature storage providers and 31 companies took part in a survey and reported details about their technology, their customer groups, and the TRL of their solutions. We paid particular attention to the level of commercialization and wanted to find out how many commercial high-temperature storage units of the new generation are already in operation. Read more
Annual solar process heat market surveys
Since 2017 solrico carries out annual surveys about the global solar process heat market. The findings from the surveys are published on solarthermalworld.org and are featured in international reports such as Solar Heat Worldwide of IEA SHC and the Renewable Global Status Report of REN21. The survey is answered by the project developers listed on the SHIP Supplier World Map. The Solar Industrial Heat Outlook 2025-2027 was launched in April 2025 and shows the extremely positive trend for the solar industrial heat market in the next few years.
PVT-collectors: allrounders for buildings provide heat and electricity
PVT collector sales are growing rapidly in Europe and Asia as they generate heat and electricity from the same roof space. Solarthermalworld.org offers now a dedicated subpage gathering news articles on PVT technology, market and industry development. read more