Renewable/Alter
PRI goes to school
in Northern Ireland
PRI provides metering/data services for
NIEE Switched on Schools programme
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PRI, the energy and advanced Smart energy bills and CO
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emissions can be
metering specialist firm, has provided the reduced.
metering and data services for NIE Spreading the carbon footprint
Energy’s (NIEE) ‘Switched on Schools’. reduction message to families and friends,
This innovative project has seen the pupils gained an understanding about
installation of photovoltaic solar panels to renewable energy and monitoring online
convert sunlight into electricity and their solar power system. gy
renewable energy streetlights in forty A web site utilising actual generation
educational establishments across rural data from each school created a ‘power Data is collected and monitored from
Northern Ireland. station’. the customer’s equipment.
For several years NIEE has worked on Received data is presented in a pre-
an ad hoc basis with the five Northern NIEE programme system determined format appropriate to
Ireland Education and Library Boards in PRI supplied the energy data services customer needs.
installing renewable energy systems at for remote collection, analysis and billing Installation across the forty schools
schools throughout the region. from the Spring XP and GSM top hat enabled them to claim money from the
Supported with European funding, a meter in each school involved. Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROC)
programme approach evolved for achieving Company sales and marketing manager system for the renewable energy
a thriving, sustainable rural community in Geoff Chapman explains: “Our meter and produced.
Northern Ireland via increased awareness energy data service solution records the The NIEE generation tariff offers
of photovoltaic (PV) technology. amount of energy used in each school and rewards for electricity exported back to the
The award-winning Switched on provides historical data for trend analysis. grid and ROCS. Acting on each school’s
Schools project made this possible and Significantly, this information is relayed to behalf, annually NIEE submits generation
enabled schools to appreciate how a central point for monitoring and meter readings to Ofgem. www.pri.co.uk;
valuable energy is as a resource and how interpretation.” e: sales@pri.co.uk; t: 01962 840048.
Buderus by the sea
Overlooking the beautiful Constantine fuel savings are around 33% and these
Bay near Padstow in Cornwall, stands the were assessed before the recent increases
impressive Treglos Hotel. Technical in fuel prices.
Services Surrey (TSS) won the heating In the UK levels of solar irradiation are
contract and following a detailed energy generally highest in the south west.
survey carried out by government agency Buderus flat plate solar collectors use ultra-
Resolve it was clear that to obtain better sensitive daylight absorption technology
Buderus solar panels at the Treglos Hotel
fuel efficiency, the hotel’s 20-year old oil and a special highly-translucent solar safety
fired boiler needed replacing with a glass that maximises the amount of solar efficiency of 96% compared to the
completely new energy efficient system energy absorbed even in cloudy conditions. previous system which ran at around 70%.
combining solar panels with a modern high The panels fitted at the Treglos hotel are Fuel savings will therefore be substantial
efficiency boiler. Following further technical expected to meet the domestic hot water and even greater with domestic hot water
assessment of the heating needs of the needs of the hotel even outside the main requirements predominantly being met by
hotel, and accounting for the seasonal May to September period where solar gain the solar panels.
patterns of usage, and the age of existing would be generally higher. The GE315 is part of the modern,
radiators and pipework the Buderus As well as being considerably more Buderus high efficiency cast iron boiler
technical team working in partnership with efficient, the new Buderus GE315 boilers range and is particularly well suited in
TSS recommended two low-NOx GE315 meeting the space heating requirements straight replacements of older commercial
140kW cast iron boilers to take care of the are also much more compact than the heating systems where the existing
heating and 20 solar panels for hot water previous ones. This allows them to be radiators and pipework are still to be
provision. easily transported, assembled and installed utilised. Built using Buderus corrosion
A key feature of the new heating on site, each boiler fitting comfortably resistant GL180M cast iron GE boilers are
system was the comprehensive Buderus within the footprint of the existing boiler an especially cost effective and durable
SC40 controls package that provided an room, with enough room left over to option for installations where high flow
integrated solution to maximise the provide the hotel with additional storage rates demand low resistance across the
operating efficiency of both the solar space. They have also been specified to heat exchanger. Buderus cast iron boilers
panels and boilers. The digital controls also provide greater capacity than needed as meet current legislation under Building
provide a visual animated graphic display of the separate apartments and the complex’s Regulations Part L in their own right,
different areas of the system so that daily swimming pool are scheduled to be added achieving efficiency levels above the
outputs from the solar collectors and the to the hotel heating and hot water system required 84% seasonal efficiency for new,
subsequent energy usage can be in the near future. single boiler installations.
continually monitored. Current estimates of The boilers have a net operating www.buderus.co.uk
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