SCRIPT: "Solar Thermal Energy: Harnessing the Power of the Sun"

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NAME Leo Holm Steen Felter Emanuel Bender Uwe Trenkner Miguel Angel Acedo Corchero Guillermo del Campo Gonzalez Francisco Bas Jimenez

TITLE Manager Marstal Fjernvarme Managing Director, Batec Secretary General, European Solar Thermal Industry Federation Instalaciones Abensi Promasol Agencia Andaluza de la Energia

ENGLISH SCRIPT REPORT LONG VERSION TC LANG TC VI 00:02:00 00:10:00 Voice-over (Wind turbines): Denmark, which is a world leader in wind energy, is not the first country that springs to mind when it comes to solar energy. But the tiny island of Aero in the south of the kingdom is determined to prove that harnessing the power of the sun is possible even in this windswept region of northern Europe. Voice-over (Views of Marstal): This is the town of Marstal. With its church, wooden houses and football field, it looks like any other small town in Denmark. But there is one big difference. Almost all the households get their domestic hot water and part of their heating needs from a solar energy plant on the outskirts of town. Voice-over (Marstal panels): With a total of over 18,000 square metres of panels, Marstal is the worlds largest solar thermal plant. The principle of this technology is simple. The sun warms up the large black surfaces of the solar panels, which in turn heat the water that is piped through them. When it reaches 70 degrees the hot water is then stored in a tank before it is pumped directly to the towns houses. Voice-over (Panels, visitors): From May until September, the plant produces 100% of Marstals hot water, while over the course of the year it provides a third of the towns total heating. The benefits are huge. Each year the solar thermal system saves the need to incinerate 9,000 litres of waste oil. The site has even become something of a tourist attraction. Voice-over (Holm intros): 1

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Plant manager Leo Holm, believes important lessons can be learnt from the experiment that begun over a decade ago on this remote island in the Baltic Sea. 00:03:29 00:11:29 Interview: Leo Holm, Manager Marstal Fjernvarme If you can produce solar energy in Denmark you can produce solar energy all over Europe. So it should be no problem. So I hope more people will install solar panels all over Europe so we can get rid of all the oil and save the world from CO2 emissions. Voice-over (Felter intros): Solar energy is popular on the island of Aero because it has proved cheap, clean and reliable. Steen Felter is a retired librarian who installed solar-powered under-floor heating when he restored his house. Interview: Steen Felter To us its an advantage because this tiny room, if I had to have central heating here with fuel, I couldnt have this. Now I have an extra kitchen you might say. We have no smell from fuel oil. Its safe. We havent had one interruption. So its a little contribution to less pollution. Voice-over (Batec factory): Many of the solar panels used on Aero are produced in this factory in Koge, outside the Danish capital Copenhagen. There is a heavy demand for these panels now because the market for solar thermal energy in Europe is booming. Over two million European families directly benefit from sustainable heating and cooling and sales of solar systems are growing by almost 50% a year. Voice-over (Bender intros): For factory owner Emanuel Bender the advantages of solar thermal are clear. Interview: Emanuel Bender, Managing Director, Batec If you can achieve heat with solar energy you are not taking anything from nowhere. You use the energy from the sun today and tomorrow when you have a shower you deliver the energy to the surroundings. Voice-over (Benders house): Bender practices what he preaches. The solar panels on his roof produce 3,000 litres of hot water ample for a family of five. With thick walls, underground heating and a wood stove, 85% of this houses heating and hot water comes from clean sources. Voice-over (Koge solar buildings): Solar heated buildings are commonplace in Koge. The solar panels on this apartment bloc provide enough heating for 144 families, while this campsite gets all its hot water from the suns rays. But such systems still only account for a tiny percentage of the EUs total energy consumption that is gobbled up by heating and cooling. So what changes are needed to realise solar thermals full potential? Voice-over (Trenkner intro): Uwe Trenkner is Secretary General of the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation Interview: Uwe Trenkner, Secretary General, European Solar Thermal Industry Federation The most important thing for us would be that new buildings are equipped with solar thermal from the beginning, because thats the most economic point to install them. You just have to foresee them when you build the building and then these buildings will stand for 50, 100 years, even longer. It just does not make sense for us to build buildings still based on fossil fuels when everyone knows they are bad in terms of the environment but also in terms of our dependence on oil and gas. 2

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Voice-over (Spain new houses): Solar panels and storage tanks are a common site in southern Europe. These days solar domestic hot water systems are more discreet, but there will be a lot more of them on roofs in years to come. Voice-over (New flats): In 2006 the Spanish government passed a law requiring the installation of solar thermal panels in all new buildings. The effect has been a dramatic rise in capacity. The panels on this new apartment bloc in Seville will provide heating and cooling for 88 flats, bringing financial and environmental benefits to tenants. Interview: Miguel Angel Acedo Corchero, Abensi Installations A parte del ahorro que tiene cada vecino en su factura, ahorro econmico, que le sale mas econmica su agua caliente hasta un 80%, ese vecino esta dejando de emitir toneladas de CO2, de gases contaminantes al medio ambiente. Pues esta dejando de emitir una cantidad equivalente al 80, 90 % de lo que emite una familia normal. Voice-over (Casa rural): Roughly 90% of the solar thermal market in the EU is in the residential sector. This second-home nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Andalusia is typical of the small-scale systems found all over Europe. The 800-litre boiler produces enough water for the needs of 12 people and even runs on olive waste when the sun is not shining. Voice-over (Intro Campo): The technician who installed the system believes the 2-3000 euro investment in solar technology made by the owners is money well spent. Interview: Guillermo del Campo Gonzalez, Promasol Es una inversin inicial que luego tiene su ahorro y su satisfaccin de ser una energa no contaminante, una energa limpia, y de producir tu mismo el agua que consumes. Y esto tiene tambin una importancia que se puede traducir en un coste econmico, no. Voice-over (Solucar): On a somewhat more grandiose scale is this solar thermal tower plant near Seville, which is the first of its kind in the world. Here, 624 automatically adjustable panels concentrate the suns rays on a solar receiver 100 metres up. The receiver harnesses this energy to produce steam, which in turn feeds a turbine to make electricity. Voice-over (Panels etc): When completed, this complex will produce enough electricity to power most of the homes in Seville. This will prevent the emission of 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, helping both Spain and the European Union to meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets. The solar industry, which employs over 20,000 people in Europe, is also a precious source of jobs in southern Spain. Voice-over (Jimenez intros): Francisco Bas Jimenez is Director General of the Andalusia Energy Agency Interview: Francisco Bas Jimenez, Agencia Andaluza de la Energia Tenemos muy claro que las energas renovables en general, y la energa solar en particular son unas grandes generadoras de riqueza y de empleo, y por supuesto la generacin de empleos desde las energas renovables es muy superior a la que crean las energas convencionales. 3

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Voice-over (Solar thermal use in residential sector houses, buildings): The European Commissions campaign Sustainable Energy Europe promotes wider use of solar thermal energy, which is clean, inexhaustible and immediately available for all potential consumers. It could also contribute to European unions objective to cover 20% of its energy consumption from renewable sources by the year 2020. END CONTENT Leo Holm, Manager Marstal Fjernvarme Steen Felter Emanuel Bender, Managing Director, Batec Uwe Trenkner, Secretary General, European Solar Thermal Industry Federation Miguel Angel Acedo Corchero, Abensi Installations Guillermo del Campo Gonzalez, Promasol Francisco Bas Jimenez, Agencia Andaluza de la Energia Leo Holm, Manager Marstal Fjernvarme Photos on screen of plant Marstal Fjernvarme Graphs on screen of plant Marstal Fjernvarme plant Marstal Fjernvarme Windmill + fields Windmill close up Marstal Fjernvarme from boat Marstal Fjernvarme from boat + people on boat Inside Batec Photovoltaic cells Inside Batec Man working with photovoltaic cells Emanuel Bender and wife in garden + view solar panels on roof Solar panels on roof Water in sink in kitchen + close up on thermometer Solar panels Fields in Sevilla Close up on tower concentrating sun rays Close up on tower concentrating sun rays from underneath Inside the plant - machines Solar panels View on Sevilla from roof View on Sevilla from roof +solar panels Close up on solar panel on roof Faade of house in Spain Solar panels on roof of house Fields pan to house with solar panels Man walking up staircase inside house Close up on hands opening fence Fields in Spain

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