2024 Winner - Newheat – LACTOSOL dairy plant Verdun, France
LACTOSOL plant demonstrates an industrial process that competitively reduces gas consumption using solar heat technology. François-Xavier Sarda, Industry Key Account Manager, Thomas Colin De Verdière, Control Engineer, and Alexis Gonnelle, Principal Scientist, received the award on behalf of Newheat during EuroSun 2024, the International Conference on Sustainable and Solar Energy for Buildings and Industry, of the IEA SHC and ISES held this year in Limassol, Cyprus.
"The 2024 SHC Solar Award celebrates projects of substantial achievement and measurable impact on an industrial process to reduce costs and emissions by incorporating solar thermal technologies. Newheat’s LACTOSOL project is certainly substantial, the largest solar thermal plant in France and second largest in Europe, and is not only reducing production costs but reducing CO2 emissions by using a combination of new technology and financing mechanism.” Lucio Mesquita, IEA SHC Executive Committee Chair
The SHC Solar Award recognizes an individual, company, or private/public institution that has shown outstanding leadership or achievements in solar heating and cooling. With this year's award, the IEA SHC recognizes a project that reduces costs and emissions by incorporating solar thermal technologies in an industrial process.
For Newheat, "We are honored to receive this award, which acknowledges our team’s work and the confidence shown by LACTALIS Ingredients, a world leader renowned for its industrial excellence and capacity for innovation. This project demonstrates NEWHEAT's ability to provide its customers with reliable and competitive solutions, even in a sector known for its very high-quality standards.” Hugues Defréville, CEO Newheat