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- Commercial
- Solar thermal
- Solar-geothermal hybrid systems
- Waste heat recovery
- Public/institutions
- Solar thermal
- Residential
- Solar and solar hybrid systems
- DIY Solar Kit
Ramada Hotel & Suites
Location:
Ramada Hotel & Suites, Lethbridge, AB
Facility Info:
- 119 rooms
- 12,000 square foot Water Park (100,000 gallon wave pool, kiddies play pool, hot tub)
System Info:
- Heating water for the Water Park
- Heating domestic hot water to heat hotel rooms, lobby and hallways
- Designed to present 522 tons of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere
How the system works:
Our hybrid systems are using every bit of solar energy we can collect and elevating it with the heat pump. Our absorption is better and with less line losses because the glycol in the panels is colder. If there isn't a simultaneous demand for the solar heat energy, then it is stored in the swimming pool for later use that evening. In short, we are getting a lot more energy and value out of the solar panels than if they were just high grade heating domestic hot water. The swimming pool is acting as storage for the free heat collection.
System benefits:
- Estimated pay back time of less than 3 years
- Anticipated annual saving of over $65,000 per year
- Up to 522 tones of Co2 gas emission reduction per year
- Financially supported by the Federal Government
- Low operation and maintenance costs
- Built with local Companies (7/24 service)
Customer testimonial:
Darcy Rempel, a member of the family that owns and operates the hotel, says his father, Terry Rempel, traveled to Kelowna to look at the city's Best Western Inn, where Swiss Solar Tech had already installed 102 rooftop collectors for hot water heating. He came back and did the math, he says, and "it just looked like a really good investment for us."
"Basically, our bills were too high," says Terry Rempel. "We have a 12,000 square foot water park, and our pool is about 100,000 gallons. To heat that is expensive. It's probably close to 30 degrees Celsius inside the water park right now, and we used to just exhaust that air straight out the top of the building. We're just trying to cut costs."
"When you're getting a 30 or 40 percent rate of return, because that's the kind of savings, and the cost of the money to do the work is at most eight or nine percent, in a financial model it makes sense to do it from day one," says Terry Rempel. "Its good to do the right thing in a win-win relationship Using solar, energy management controls, ground source or heat recovery methods can create a lot of environmental and quality benefits, and save millions of dollars."
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