The SHIP project led by MCG has as main goal the demonstration of a holistic system of direct integration technologies that work with medium temperature solar thermal in industrial processes, testing and validating it and thus ensure its approach to the market. This system was established as an innovative solution, resulting from previous activities of R&D of the consortium partners.

It is intended, in this project, to evidence, before a specialized audience in a real situation the technical and economic advantages of the solution that is not yet fully validated. Its implementation should result in increased energy efficiency in the industrial units where it will be installed, resulting in reduced energy bills and therefore in better acceptance of solar thermal technologies and other eco-efficient solutions in general, still very dependent on the quantification of this type of benefits.