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Projects by Swiss Solar Tech: Ramada Hotel & Suites, Lethbridge  By implementing this solar heating and heat recovery system, the Ramada Hotel & Suites in Lethbridge, can prevent 522 tons of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere while burning natural gas. The system is designed to heat the water for the hotel's 12,000 square foot Water Park (wave pool, kiddies play-pool, hot tub) and 119 room's domestic hot water, plus space heating for the lobby and all the hallways. The solar heating and heat recovery system installed at the Ramada Hotel & Suites in Lethbridge will achieve an estimated annual savings of over $65,000 per year. Therefore, Mr. C. Rempel and Mr. T. Rempel, owners of the Ramada Hotel & Suites in Lethbridge, expect the savings to pay for the cost of the system in less than three years. How a solar/geothermal hybrid systems operates: 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.   Advantages/Benefits/Highlights Clients Statement: Terry and Darcy Rempel, Ramada Hotel & Suites Lethbridge AB:
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." Copyright © 2005 Swiss Solar Tech Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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