Anyone used Solarus combined PV & Solar Thermal panel

[mydigitalhome]

Hello, I dont work for Solarus and not trying to advertise them. Home - Solarus - https://solarus.com/ However I have a Client who spotted their website and I cant find many reviews about this tech. Does it work or is it a bad compromise what do you guys think? Do any of you have experience of this or similar type product? Thanks for your help

 

[mydigitalhome]

Hi you must all be enjoying the weekend, any help appreciated as need to get back to Client tomorrow.

 

[LeeH]

Is your client short on roof space?

 

[mydigitalhome]

Hello Lee, no not limited on roof space but we have filled it. We have 94 PV panels designed already on house roof, however Client would like me to consider using a hybrid combined panel instead to gain even more benefit. He has a swimming pool that requires approx 40kw to heat so having additional harvesting could be interesting maximising flat roof area. I believe PV is approx 20% efficient with a hybrid they can get an extra 50% of hot water effiency from roof space with integrated solar thermal panel. As its for pool water the temp from the panels will be fine. So whats your thoughts on this?

 

[LeeH]

Oh I see, these are combined panels? Very clever. I couldn’t advise you, it’s not my area. I just have a system myself and find ithe tech interesting.

I wrongly presumed your client was just getting hung up on effiency figures.

If you do fit them let us now how you get on regarding generation and reliability.

 

[mydigitalhome]

Thanks Lee, gather they have loads of installations around the world. My client is visiting some sites to check it out. Let’s see what happens. Cheers

 

[EbolaSideRoom]

Interesting stuff. A client asked me about this tech years ago and I couldnt find anything useful at the time. I’ll look into it myself now.