Alberta Solar

[Egon]

Information on a newly built community near Calgary Alberta that utilizes community solar heating.

[video]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community[/video]

 

[RalphVa]

Around here, you'd have to place the panels in a lot to have it feed into the end of a lateral in the power distribution for the neighborhood.

Then you'd have the problem of maintenance. Who does it, etc.

Ralph

 

[Egon]

Around here, you'd have to place the panels in a lot to have it feed into the end of a lateral in the power distribution for the neighborhood.

Then you'd have the problem of maintenance. Who does it, etc.

Ralph

Do a Google and read up on it!

The video was about heat not power.

 

[Looking4new]

Innovative to say the least.
I guess having a big old wood stove to pick up the slack would be 'out of the question'.

 

[Egon]

Innovative to say the least.
I guess having a big old wood stove to pick up the slack would be 'out of the question'.

The heat storage system intriques me. I've often wondered if something similar could be utilized as basement for single house.

Don't know about wood stoves but, if I recall correctly additional heat is added at the central station.

 

[Knight9]

Interesting technology for sure. I'm sure the $5.525 million in subsidies out of the $7 million cost, or almost 80% coverage, was a great kickstart to the project.

 

[buickanddeere]

ROI will still be upside down even with the tax payer and rate payer footing the bill. The days are short and the sun is weak during Alberta winters . Natural gas is cheap.

 

[Egon]

Eighty percent of heat supplied by Solar Power in Alberta; is that considered a failure?

 

[Egon]

A Danish Island. The wind and solar seem to work for them.

 

[buickanddeere]

Eighty percent of heat supplied by Solar Power in Alberta; is that considered a failure?

I suppose if you figure coal, gas and oil as latent solar energy.