Acknowledgement

The installation of the plant and the first two years of scientific monitoring were funded by the European Commission (DG TREN) and the federal state of Baden-Wurttemberg. In 2004 the monitoring and some technical improvements are funded by the German Government as one of the demonstrations projects within the IEA Task 25 "Solar air conditioning of buildings”.

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