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Solar power ready to shine
By Dominick Tao, Times Staff Writer In print: Thursday, June 26, 2008 In a converted warehouse at the Solar Source company headquarters in Largo, president and solar technology contractor Wayne Wallace is training his competition. He calls his endeavor the Solar Source University. |
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The Orange County Convention Center's massive rooftop will soon shoulder the largest solar project in Florida and the Southeast at one megawatt of clean renewable solar energy. County officials granted the contract to Johnson Controls, Inc. in partnership with Solar Source on July 8, 2008 to blanket the roof of the nation's second-largest convention center with panels that can turn sunshine into energy, without producing pollution. It will be a showcase for the whole state of Florida not just Orange County Convention Center that each year brings more than 300 events to the Central Florida area. As a result, roughly 1.4 million attendees contribute approximately $1.4 billion to the area's economic impact each year. These efforts will continue in 2008, with the solar PV project. The PV system will utilize high efficiency flat-plate collectors, expected to occupy approximately 200,000 square feet of roof space on the North/South Building. Current plans call for the completion of the solar array within 12 months. The benefits of generating electricity with solar energy include reducing energy costs, while at the same time helping to reduce global warming and our dependence on foreign fuels. The one-megawatt solar PV system will generate 1,300 to 1,500 megawatt-hours of electricity per year, which is equivalent to the power used by 80 to 100 typical homes, and it will do this without producing any greenhouse gas emissions. |
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| Domestic Hot Water - Active Systems | |
Why use a solar water heater?Solar water heaters provide you with several benefits over conventional water heaters. You will reduce your hot water heating costs. You will also be directly reducing greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide, CO2, released into the atmosphere), thereby contributing to a healthier environment.The energy you can expect to save by switching to a solar water heater depends on several factors such as the size of the collectors and storage tank, appliance efficiency, amount of sunlight in your region and, very importantly, the amount of water you use. A typical solar hot water system will reduce annual energy costs by 40 to 50 percent. You can expect that a solar water heater will provide you with 1500 to 3000 kWh of energy per year, depending on your hot water usage and regional climate. |
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