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SunMaxx Solar Installs Solar Hot Water System at the Broome County YMCA

SunMaxx Solar in conjunction with Eastern Energy Solutions, installed a Solar Hot Water System at the Broome County YMCA in Binghamton , New York which included 10 SunMaxx ThermoPower-VHP30 evacuated tube collectors , 300 tubes and Evacuated Tubes as part of a solar thermal system designed to supplement the domestic hot water heating costs of the facility, allowing additional budget money to be used for service and facility upgrades. The system is large enough to provide 140 million BTUs of heat energy annually - enough to heat 218,000 gallons of water each year. The solar hot water heating system will offset enough natural gas to provide more than 29,000 showers each year (83 a day). The SunMaxx solar hot water system will have a dramatic impact on reducing the natural gas usage of the YMCA facility, and is only a part of more than $1,000,000 that the YMCA has invested in energy efficiency upgrades, including efficient lighting and heating/cooling system upgrades.

St. Regis Hotel Solar Thermal System Installation

In 2009 , SunMaxx Solar completed a Solar Installation at the St. Regis Hotel in Aspen , Colorado. The install which used 52 collectors and 1560 SunMaxx Solar Evacuated Tubes , provides a complete heat source to all areas of the hotel including the swimming pools , heat for the facility and hot water.

Wallkill Prison Solar Thermal System Installation

The SunMaxx Solar System, located at the Wallkill Correctional Facility (Ulster County) seeks to harness the power of the sun to meet the hot water needs of the 608-bed, medium security men’s prison.  The system includes 1440 evacuated tubes in 3 pods of 16 collectors arranged in 3 rows of 4 collectors. The system does not contain storage, an innovative design strategy that was implemented given the load profile of the facility. A glycol/water solution is circulated through the durable, closed-loop system, and is capable of preheating vast volumes of water used for showers, laundry, and kitchen facilities. On the day the system was commissioned, it performed exactly how it was designed. Even with frost on the tubes on an early January day, the system yielded 134 deg F. The1440 tubes produced 297,000 BTU’s per hour (210 per tube) dumped directly into the Domestic hot water supply raising the variable domestic flow by 30 degrees. The project is expected to reduce the facility’s current oil consumption by 160,000 gallons, and requires minimal annual maintenance. This is the largest evacuated tube system for any prison in the USA. Technicians from SunMaxx Solar aided in the design of the system.  The project being was funded in part by a $250,000 Renewable Energy Program grant from the New York Power Authority. The project s expected to pay for itself in 20 years, and have a life expectancy of more then 30 years. In June 2010, the project was honored as the Best New York State Government Solar Project of the Year by the NYS Solar Energy Industries Association at their annual conference in Albany.