I know that I have severely neglected the blog (and that no one is probably reading it anymore) but I thought that it would be a good place to organize my thoughts on our new solar project.
In 2008 when we started our renovation design project, we considered solar as a hot water heating option. However, with the decision to go with geothermal heating and cooling it wasn’t viable as water heating is essentially covered by the geothermal system as well as by the drain heat recovery system. We did install a “solar conduit” as part of our original renovation project to facilitate the installation of solar panels for power generation in the future. The conduit is really just a PVC pipe installed in the wall running from the basement to the roof. This way we wouldn’t have to run a conduit on the outside of our house should we decide to go with solar in the future.
We connected with Peter Glover (formerly with Isolara and now with Ottawa Solar) when we first started talking about what we wanted for our overall renovation project. He was (and is) a great asset when it comes to information on solar. He is the one that took us up on a roof of a house last year in the Wellington West neighbourhood so that we could see the installation of panels firsthand.
For more information on Ottawa Solar Power, visit http://ottawasolarpower.com/osp2010/home.htm
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