Commercial Applications
The most cost effective installations for solar hot water will be in commercial buildings with a high demand for hot water at peak periods of the day and night. These include:
Motels / Hotels
Corporations concerned about environmental performance and positive sustainable marketing campaigns are beginning to extend their policies to external activities such as accommodation conferences and meetings. When booking accomodation the consumer demand for, sustainability and, also hot water can both be meet through the installation of a Solar Harvest, evacuated tube solar hot water system. Over the year and throughout the day the evacuated tube technology has out performed traditional flat plate solar hot water systems equating to greater efficiencies and subsequently, rapid financial returns.
Solar Harvest can install a hot water recirculation system to deliver immediate hot water without wastage, activated on a timer for greater efficiencies. Additionally we can install flow regulation for all appropriate outlets to reduce water consumption. Solar Harvest systems are boosted with electricity or gas to ensure a constant supply of hot water.
Solar Harvest Australia will install a suitably sized system to manage booking trends or seasonal demand. The system will be able to deliver free hot water at a set temperature guaranteed to satisfy your customer base. Through analysis of your hotels utility bills we will deduce a detailed cost benefit investigation to enable your organisation to set budgets and when to expect a return on investment.
Solar Harvest can arrange finance for the initial investment of a fully integrated solar hot water solution, to facilitate repayments through energy savings.
Nursing Facilities & Hospitals
Safety and reliability are two components essential to hot water services in hospitals, nursing homes and caring facilities. Solar Harvest will provide a cost effective solution that will deliver a major proportion of hot water demand at medical facilities. The Solar Harvest evacuated tube solar hot water solution can be integrated into the existing gas or electrically powered hot water system allowing greater economies and minimal disruption during installation.
The evacuated tube system has the ability to produce water temperatures up to 80 degrees Celsius. These high temperatures are controlled using a tempering valve, which ensures the water is delivered at the legal 50 degree temperature for safety reasons. However, these higher temperatures equate to greater efficiencies because there is significantly decreased boosting fuel inputs required from electricity and gas.
Boarding Houses & Sporting Facilities
Hot water systems in boarding houses and sporting facilities are designed to cope with sudden fluctuations in demand requiring large storage capacity. The result is very costly to run as most of the time the storage tanks are in standby mode consuming energy during the day as they leak heat energy which has been paid for. It is possible to adapt our solar collectors to existing storage systems which will decrease the purchase cost, however if the tanks are more than 5 years old we recommend exchanging them for stainless steel tanks with a 10 year warranty. A cost benefit analysis will allow your facility a calculated estimation of a return on investment. Currently there are funding streams for school boarding houses and community sporting facilities to either assist or pay the total amount of the investment.