High Combi: HIGH solar fraction heating and cooling systems with COMBInation of innovative components and methods, is a EC co-founded project which aims at developing high solar fraction systems by an innovative combination of optimized solar heating, cooling and storage technologies. Demonstration plants will be constructed (Greece, Italy Austria and Spain) using different technologies, components and control strategies for achieve high solar fractions values. Innovative techniques, components and/or configurations will be examined (new storages, use of rejected heat during cooling, combined heating and cooling control). Demonstration plants' monitoring data will be analyzed, the simulation and design tools validated and the plants performance evaluated. Market analysis will be carried out in order to estimate the potential penetration for these systems in the European heating and cooling market.

The sectors of the implementation are all medium and large buildings end-users having heating and cooling loads along the year.

High-combi Staff