SOLTRAIN - Southern African Solar Thermal Demonstration and Training Initiative

Solar cooking with evacuated tubes

Evacuated glass tubes are central to a host of solar thermal applications. Several years ago innovators began harnes…

2 years, 9 months ago

Ivan Yaholnitsky

Centurion Building: Lessons and savings from solar thermal in the residential sector

A report on one of SOLTRAIN's demonstration projects in the residential sector in Cape Town has been published.<…

2 years, 9 months ago

SOLTRAIN Admin

Lesotho’s Contribution to Net Zero

Countries, cities, organizations and corporations around the world are, on a daily basis, making impressive co…

2 years, 11 months ago

Ivan Yaholnitsky

SOLTRAIN Funded Solar Hybrid Project

In 2020, SOLTRAIN awarded bursaries to qualifying research students in its five partner countries. On…

2 years, 11 months ago

Kevin N. Nwaigwe and Ditiro Setlhaolo

SOLTRAIN policy workshops successfully concluded

Four SOLTRAIN policy workshops and three housing sector information workshops were convened in the latter part of No…

2 years, 11 months ago

Samson Mhlanga

SOLTRAIN participates at Botswana's Virtual STEM Festival & National Science Week

Clean Energy Research Centre contributed to Botswana’s virtual Science, technology, engineering, and mathemati…

2 years, 11 months ago

Ditiro Setlhaolo

2020 - A challenging but successful year

As I already described in SOLTRAIN Newsletter #3 in August, none of the SOLTRAIN team imagined that the technic…

2 years, 11 months ago

Werner Weiss

Solar thermal policy workshops held recently for Mozambique & Botswana

Earlier in September, SOLTRAIN workshops for policymakers on solar heat were held in Botswana and Mozambique. The wo…

3 years ago

SACREEE

SOLTRAIN's technical training goes online

The global COVID-19 pandemic has challenged SOLTRAIN to come up with new and innovative ways to deliver training ses…

3 years ago

Rudolf Moschik

Social institutions & housing projects make up bulk of demonstration systems so far in SOLTRAIN's fourth phase

Thermal heating and cooling includes a multitude of applications in Southern Africa such as hot water preparation in…

3 years ago

Werner Weiss

'Blue' solar water heating systems in Lesotho

Solarsoft, the commercial entity of Lesotho SOLTRAIN partner, the Bethel Business and Community Development Center (…

3 years ago

Puleng Mosothoane

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on SOLTRAIN

At SOLTRAIN's training courses, which were held in the SOLTRAIN partner countries in early 2020, no one would ha…

3 years, 3 months ago

Werner Weiss

Solar water heating dissemination workshop in Botswana

A dissemination workshop on solar water heaters was conducted by the Clean Energy Research Centre at the University …

3 years, 3 months ago

Ditiro Setlhaolo

Lesotho experience with dual training

Solarsoft, the commercial entity of Lesotho SOLTRAIN partner, the Bethal Business and Community Development Center (…

3 years, 3 months ago

Puleng Mosothoane

SOLTRAIN supports the installation of another 100 solar thermal demonstration systems

The support of the installation of solar thermal demonstration systems in so called “Flagship Districts”…

3 years, 3 months ago

Werner Weiss

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