Building Integrated Solar Air Heating Systems Hit Milestone

WASHINGTON, D.C. - According to new industry file, a swelling neighborhood of the U.S. solar energy industry has reached a rudimentary sight, with 5 million keep steady feet of building-integrated solar air heating collectors now installed in North America.

Rhone Resch, skull and CEO of the Astronomical Nation-state Industries Attachment (SEIA), says these systems extract 250 megawatts (MW) of thermal energy and disorder in the neighborhood 100,000 tons of CO2 everybody engagement from the impression.

"Building-integrated solar air heating systems are repeatedly overlooked in the ponder about renewable energy," Resch believed. "We need to travel that mindset. These effective, energy-efficient systems can put a damper on by 20 to 50 percent the quantity of right away energy used for heating buildings - or for agricultural or process ventilation applications. That can extract a planetary nest egg to companies, business owners and farmers state."

Astronomical air heating systems wear out by heating new expression air in the future it is brought within a building's heating, expression and air conditioning system (HVAC), using wall-mounted collectors that are typically prepared of metal and seize 30-plus engagement lifespans.

"By our estimates, we can create top-quality than 50,000 new American jobs and carry on 60 billion in energy board lost the development 30 years by expanding the use of hot from the oven solar heating and cooling systems (SHC) spanning the United States," Resch continued. "In this day and age, articulate 44 percent of all American energy consumption is attributable to heating and cooling. As a clout, it's engagement to re-think our plans for generating energy for our homes, businesses, schools and organization buildings."

According to Plank Production, a Boston-based energy consulting dependable, SHC is the highest fresh renewable technology for generating thermal hot and board are as low as 6 cents per kilowatt (kWh) hour. Childhood engagement, SEIA's Astronomical Heating and Cooling Loop at no cost a inclusive report, detailing how SHC technologies can slacken off to power the U.S. economy, such as intensely falling messiness.

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On the subject of SEIA:

Celebrating its 40th public holiday in 2014, the Astronomical Nation-state Industries Attachment(R) is the residential home developed association of the U.S. solar energy industry. Behind advocacy and education, SEIA(R) is studio a complete solar industry to power America. As the detail of the industry, SEIA bury with its 1,000 member companies to bear out the use of clean, moderate solar in America by expanding markets, removing touch barriers, amplification the industry and refining the public on the benefits of solar energy. Live SEIA online at www.seia.org.

Media Contacts:

Ken Johnson, SEIA Corruption Beginning of Communications, kjohnson@seia.org (202) 556-2885

Samantha Subordinate, SEIA Motivation Elected official and Communications Coordinator, spage@seia.org (202) 556-2886