IEA SHC Solar Academy: Task 65 Solar Cooling for the Sunbelt Regions - I

Uli Jakob is Director of dr. jakob energy research GmbH & Co. KG (JER). He has more than twenty years of industrial and scientific professional experience, particularly in the product development and commercialization of renewable and energy-efficient technologies. His areas of specialization are building physics, renewable energies and climate engineering, with a particular focus on innovative energy concepts and energy efficiency in industry and urban districts. He holds a PhD in Applied Thermodynamics from De Montfort University Leicester, U.K. and an engineering degree in building physics from the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences. In May 2020 he received an honorary professorship from the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences.

Before founding JER, Uli worked as CTO/ Director at the international system supplier SolarNext AG and as Managing Director/ Research Assistant at the Competence Center for Sustainable Energy Technology (zafh.net) in Stuttgart. Since September 2012 he has also been Managing Director of the Green Chiller Association for Sorption Cooling e.V. based in Berlin and was appointed Operating Agent/ Task Manager of the IEA SHC Tasks 65 on Solar Cooling for Sunbelt Regions (2020-2024) in June 2020.

Uli will introduce task 65.

Tobias Schmetzer is the GIS and tooling engineer in the project "SunBeltChiller – a Solar thermal energy system for cooling and process heat in the sunbelt region" at the Bavarian Center for AppliedEnergy Research, ZAE Bayern in Garching, Germany. Tobias Schmetzer studied computer engineering at the Technical University of Ilmenau and has been working in the fields of GIS systems, heat distribution grids and chillers/heat pumps at ZAE Bayern since 2021. Within the IEA SHC Task65, Tobias works together with Richard Gurtner on Subtask A1: Climatic conditions & applications.

Tobias will present an analysis of boundary conditions and potentials for solar cooling systems within the sunbelt region based on geographical data.

DI Dr.techn. Daniel Neyer is Founder and Managing Director at neyer brainworks, a certified consulting office for renewable energy, building services and energy-efficient buildings. In 2021, he co-founded a social business – TWIGA Sun Fruits GmbH, which is providing turnkey solar heating/cooling solutions for the agro-food sector. Besides, he is a senior researcher at the Unit for Energy Efficient Buildings at the University of Innsbruck. He is an Engineer holding a master's degree in Eco Energy Engineering, a master's degree in Domotronic, and a PhD in technical sciences and gathered more than 15 years of R&D and professional experience. He is involved in several national and international projects and is an Austrian expert in the IEA SHC Tasks. His main fields of activities are numerical simulations in HVAC’s and buildings, component and system development and optimization as well as assessment and benchmarking of renewable heating and cooling systems. Currently, he is Subtask C leader of the IEA SHC Task 65.

Daniel will present an assessment and benchmarking of solar cooling systems.

Bärbel Epp is the founder and managing director of the German consultancy solrico. She is responsible for the international newsletter of the web portal www.solarthermalworld.org, reporting exclusively about market and technology trends in the solar heating and cooling sector globally. solrico also created the first online World Map of SHIP suppliers (SHIP = Solar Heat for Industrial Processes) and carries out surveys among the around 80 companies listed on the world map annually. For six years Bärbel Epp is the SHC chapter author of the annual Global Status Report on Renewables published by REN21. Bärbel Epp graduated in Physics at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.