It is well-known that the amount of solar energy that falls on the Earth every day is 10,000 times greater than the amount of energy that we use.

Energy generation with the help of the sun is also the solution for the future, at the same time without CO2.
 
 

If we could cover 5 to 7 %* of the surface area of Western Europe with the current generation of photovoltaic solar panels, we would generate all of the electrical energy we need until 2050 ourselves.

* Remark: using hybrid collectors, it should be from 4 to 5 % (due to cooling in summer)
 
The ‘Drake Landing Solar project’ is a residential area near Calgary in Canada comprising more than 50 homes, where all of the energy for heating and hot water is taken from the sun the whole year round.

The results from this project have led us to develop the ‘PV-T Combi-Collector’, a socalled ‘hybrid collector’ that is capable of generating both electricity and heat from solar energy using the same surface.
 
According to calculations carried out by the ‘Nederlands Energie Centrum’, we can generate all of the energy that an average home in North-Western Europe consumes in electricity and natural gas or heating oil per year with around 25 sq. metres of these hybrid collectors.

By using ground heat converters (as in the ‘Drake Landing project’) we are able to store the thermal energy for longer periods (over one year).
 
By means of the simultaneous use of hybrid collectors and the ground heat converters we have the means, using no sources of energy other than the sun, to supply a house with:
  1. Cooling in summer
  2. Heating in winter
  3. Hot water
  4. Electricity


In other words, a complete energy system, but without CO2

This system can be used in both individual homes and groups of homes, office buildings, hospitals, nursing homes, industrial works and cultivation systems (e.g. greenhouses).

The sampling/reporting carried out on behalf of the Dutch state authorities by the Agricultural University of Wageningen and TNO underground construction shows
 
that our system can be used very well in horticulture. If our system is used in horticulture, operating costs for the gardener will become 30 % lower than with the systems currently used, provided that a subsidy is received for those systems (TEC - thermal energy couplers).

Saving on CO2
For example, a tomato cultivator with 8 hectares of agricultural land needs 3000 tonnes of CO2 per year for the cultivation of his tomatoes. A heating boiler then generates double the amount of CO2, i.e. 6000 tonnes CO2

A thermal energy coupler generates 3 to 4 times too much CO2, up to 12000 tonnes CO2 (these thermal energy couplers are often statesubsidised:
In the Netherlands €33 per megawatt
In Germany €51 per megawatt).
Using our complete energy system we are able to supply the gardener with precisely the desired amount of CO2 exactly when he needs it. We also supply him with the required heating, just like the other systems.

Our system is very suitable for use by companies and institutions with relatively high hotwater and heat usage, e.g.
Hospitals
Nursing homes
Hotels
Sports centres
Swimming pool/bath institutions
 
 
Large Kitchens
Breweries/beverage industry
Food processing industry
Laundries
Dairy factories


Design - calculation by project office
If you submit your energy consumption (over a year/ monthly periods) to our Project-office:
Gas consumption in m³, respectively, oil consumption in litres.
Electricity consumption (in kWh).
Water consumption in litres (estimated in % hot % cold)
We will calculate a so-called Energy-Balance for you and an advice/tender adapted to your specific energy needs.