{"id":702,"date":"2013-12-10T10:02:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T10:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designbuybuild.co.uk\/?p=702"},"modified":"2013-12-10T10:03:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T10:03:36","slug":"kingspan-solar-thermal-supplies-hot-water-for-snowdonia-caravan-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designbuybuild.co.uk\/kingspan-solar-thermal-supplies-hot-water-for-snowdonia-caravan-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingspan Solar Thermal Supplies Hot Water for Snowdonia Caravan Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
Trawsdir, one of Wales\u2019s top Touring and Caravan Parks, located in the beautiful Snowdonia National Park, has embraced renewable energy with the installation of solar technology.\u00a0 Solar thermal now supplies the hot water and feeds the underfloor heating in the shower block, lowering its gas usage and carbon footprint while boosting the Park\u2019s income by around \u00a32,000 per annum.<\/i><\/p>\n
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Trawsdir is a 5* family-run and maintained Touring & Caravan Park located in Snowdonia National Park in an area of outstanding natural beauty overlooking both Cardigan Bay and the impressive Lleyn Peninsula.<\/span><\/p>\n During recent refurbishment work at the Park, local renewable energy installers Arizon Energy, were asked to review options for renewable energy technology, determining the cost\/benefit of a number of alternatives including solar thermal and solar PV.<\/p>\n Initial analysis by Arizon highlighted that the demand for hot water within the shower block, was consuming a considerable proportion of the overall energy usage of the Park particularly in the peak summer months.<\/p>\n Arizon approached Kingspan Solar, part of Kingspan Environmental, to help design a system to provide a reliable source of year-round hot water for the block that could also cope with the heavy seasonal loading placed upon it during peak periods.<\/p>\n Kingspan Solar\u2019s specialist design and engineering team designed a dual-purpose solar thermal system that not only heated the domestic potable water for the showers and basins within the block, the excess energy it generated also supplied additional hot water to an underfloor heating system to help dry the shower floors and prevent damp and mould developing.<\/p>\n The designers gathered pertinent information surrounding the installation, such as floor areas and the flow temperature required to feed both systems, as well as the amount of water used each day, and this was fed into Kingspan Solar software.\u00a0\u00a0 The software calculates the metre2<\/sup> of solar thermal collectors and their optimum placement on the shower block\u2019s roof to maximise solar collection both during the morning and in the period of peak energy demand in the evening.\u00a0 Highly accurate annual daily water usage figures were obtained from metre readings at the Park, which added extra precision to their calculations and confidence in the efficacy and efficiency of the system design.<\/p>\n