Agricultural activities are typically housed in barns or converted warehouse-style buildings, which are often badly insulated, draughty or simply too large to consider solar thermal for heating – or have no heating provision in the first place.
However, solar thermal can be used to effect great savings in agricultural applications of hot water; for example farm dairies, where a large quantity of hot water is required to wash milking pails and machines. As these buildings are more likely to have an existing supply for electricity than for hot water, they are often required to heat this water using immersion heaters, which is a relatively expensive option.
In this situation, integrating a solar thermal system to preheat the water required can result in hugely reduced electric bills.
The significant savings to be made here, in conjunction with the new Renewable Heat Incentive now available for non-domestic installations, mean the return on installation cost for this type of solar thermal system can be very high, in the region of 10% and upwards per year.
A site survey and detailed will be required in order to quote for this type of large system - please email details through to us via our contact form.
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