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Solar Thermal Solutions

Solar Thermal Solutions. Solargenix Energy LLC. Thermal Energy Demand. Solar energy can supply a significant portion of your company’s energy demand. Potential thermal solutions include: Domestic hot water – cooking, laundry, wash down, etc.

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Solar Thermal Solutions

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  1. Solar Thermal Solutions Solargenix Energy LLC

  2. Thermal Energy Demand • Solar energy can supply a significant portion of your company’s energy demand. Potential thermal solutions include: • Domestic hot water – cooking, laundry, wash down, etc. • Process hot water – boiler preheat, industrial water, dryers, etc. • Space heating – forced air, floor heating, etc • Desiccant chilling • These loads often represent 30 % or more of your company’s energy needs • Solar thermal energy systems can displace 40 % or more of your purchased energy used for thermal purposes

  3. Solar Solutions • Solar thermal energy systems – • Reduce annual expenditures on fossil fuel and/or electricity • Fix the energy price for a significant percentage of your load • The effective forward price is at or below the forward price of fossil fuels and especially electricity • With the price fixed, solar energy eliminates price risk and volatility for the energy provided • This serves as a long term hedge against rising prices for fossil fuels and electricity • Permanently reduce annual carbon emissions • Contribute to attaining LEED certifications • Demonstrate corporate stewardship • Increase the percentage or renewable inputs into your product or service

  4. How Does Solar Thermal Work? • A solar thermal system uses solar energy to displace a portion of purchased energy • The system consists of: • Collectors – to efficiently capture the Sun’s energy • Circulating pumps – to move the energy from the collectors • Tanks – to store the energy, allowing round the clock usage and more purchased energy to be displaced • Controls – to provide maximum heat collection • Heat exchangers – to transfer the solar heat to the load

  5. What Will It Take? • Capital investment – • Costs of energy are upfront with little O&M • Supports various financing structures • Federal ITCs, accelerated depreciation, state rebates or ITCs, and various grants that are available to assist with returns • Can meet acceptable targets for NPC, IRR, and effective annualized energy pricing • Solar expertise – • Understand current thermal loads and uses • Choose the right technology for the application • Solar system sizing is important • Design of the thermal solution integration is critical to realize solar benefits • Integration – • Engineering for lowest cost per solar BTU • Procurement of the right equipment • Installing the system correctly • Maintenance and performance monitoring

  6. What are the Economic Drivers? • Insolation (geographical) • Location-specific solar availability (i.e., shading) • Positioning of solar collectors • Footprint available for solar field • Type of collector/system and suitability to application • Thermal loads • Temperature • Profile - Daily/seasonal fluctuations, quantity • Purchased energy cost • Efficiency of existing system • Local installation costs • Federal, State, Local, Other incentives • Ownership structure/ability to utilize ITCs

  7. Why Solargenix? • Products – • Outstanding products from hot water collectors to power troughs • Experience – • Large and small projects, hot water to the only new CSP plant (64MW) in two decades • Active in solar since the 80s • Expertise – • Engineering experts with solar systems and thermodynamic integration; • Financial structuring of capital and incentives • Leverage both to deliver the lowest cost per BTU • Integration – • Deliver fully integrated solutions with engineering, procurement, installation, financing, operations and performance

  8. What can Solargenix do for You? • Solargenix can provide the following products and services down this value chain :

  9. Solargenix Offerings • Solargenix will build, own and operate your solar thermal system either for • a lease payment or • supplying you with reliable long-term solar energy on a $/BTU basis • This provides you with a hedge against rising energy prices without owning, operating and maintaining a system • Solargenix will deliver installed solar systems • Solargenix will design solar systems as an owner’s engineer • Solargenix will sell the industries’ best optical collectors, the CPC 1.1, CPC 2.0, and CPC 3.0

  10. Next Step - Evaluation Process

  11. Questions

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