by jdunkley | Aug 28, 2014
Our innovative solar air heating project for the city of Richmond was featured in Innovation Magazine. APEGBC highlighted it as an example of renewable energy engineering in British Columbia.
by jdunkley | Aug 11, 2014
Significant energy savings and carbon reduction are being achieved with this commercial solar pool heating system. A 125 m² array of Apricus evacuated tube collectors in a drainback configuration is powerful and reliable.
by jdunkley | May 15, 2014
This seasonal pool application uses unglazed solar pool heaters to circulate water from the pool to the solar collectors when solar is available and required.
by jdunkley | Mar 11, 2014
This retrofit geo-exchange project interacts with existing building air handling units to reduce space heating loads and deliver energy at a high coefficient of performance than the original system. Heating is staged in with geo-exchange as priority and the original...
by jdunkley | Nov 19, 2013
The idea of heating a space with the sun is very attractive and elegant, though not trivial to implement cost effectively in Northern coastal climates. The challenge is that both daily and seasonally, the load and source don’t coincide. When we need space heat,...
by jdunkley | Jun 12, 2012
This extended care hospital facility uses a significant amount of hot water and was due for a new hot water system to replace the failing one. The solar hot water preheat system will provide nearly 50% of the load annually to the building. A drainback, preheat...
