What Are Solar Panels Made Of? A Closer Look at Solar Panel Materials and Composition

In principle, solar panels seem simple. Everyone understands that the sun gives off huge amounts of energy–so how hard can it be to create a glass surface that captures sunlight and converts the sun’s energy into usable electricity? Well, it’s easier said than done.

How Efficient Are Solar Panels in 2024?

With renewable energy sweeping the world, solar power is now the go-to for homes and businesses aiming to cut energy costs and minimize their carbon footprint. But there’s one question every potential buyer asks: How efficient are solar panels today?

How do Solar Panels Work? A Beginner's Guide to Solar Energy Systems

How to Heat your Pool for free with the Heat Rejected by Air Conditioning Units or Geothermal Heat Pumps?

In normal cooling process, extracted heat is dumped to the environment. This Blog explains how you can reclaim the rejected heat and use it for pool swimming heating.

Air to Water Heat Pump Energy Savings and Payback Period in North America

An in depth analysis for air to water heat pumps energy efficiency, savings and payback periods in multiple Canadian and US cities spanning from east to west coast.

Enhanced Vapor Injection for Air to Water Heat Pumps

This Blog explains Enhanced Vapor Injection for Air to Water Heat Pumps benefits & feasibility in cold climates such as Canada and the Northern Portion of US.

Air to Water or Air to Air Heat Pump?

This Blog compares the performances of a conventional air to air heat pump with the new air to water heat pumps for a typical Canadian Home

How do Hybrid PVT Panels Work?

This Blog Explains how Hybrid Photovoltaic and Thermal Solar Panels work. it also compares their performance to Vacuum Tubes.

Vacuum Tube and Hybrid PVT Panels Comparison for North America

This Blogs compares Hybrid PVT Panels performances to Vacuum Tube Solar Collectors in multiple major Canadian and US cities.

How to Prevent Condensation in Radiant Cooling Applications?

This Blog is a quick recipe for preventing condensation on cooled surfaces by radiant cooling. It presents a guide on setting chilled water temperature circulating in infloor loops etc....

Decarbonization by Producing Medium Temperature Hot Water with Vacuum Tube Solar Collectors

This Blog explains how Vacuum Tube Solar Collectors can be used in industrial process heating to reduce industrial buildings carbon footprints.

How to turn wasted heat into cash in Buildings with simultaneous heating and cooling demand?

Many buildings have cooling and heating demand at the same time. A lot of money is wasted when paying utility companies to buy energy for generating heating and cooling at the same time. This blog explains how to recover heat and reduce annual utility bills.

Air to Water or Geothermal Heat Pump?

This Blog present advantages and disadvantages of Air to Water Heat Pumps and Geothermal Heat Pumps (or Water Source Heat Pumps). It outlines the result of energy simulation and shows payback period, marginal benefit Vs marginal cost as well as complete life cycle cost of each technology.

How to double the lifespan of geothermal wells with solar thermal?

This blog presents a recipe for extending the lifespan of closed loop geothermal wells beyond 15-25 years, by injecting excess heat generated by solar thermal panels during the summer season.

Seasonal Underground Thermal Energy Storage

Solar Energy is the most abundant renewable energy in our planet, however one of the disadvantages of solar energy is that it's available when it's less needed. We have more sunny hours in the summer than in winter in most Canadian Cities, which make any solar system (Whether PV Panels, Evacuated Tube Solar Collectors, Solar Air Heaters, etc...) oversized for summer, when designed to cover winter demand, and very expensive for a regular middle class Canadian Family.The ideal scenario will be to store the excess produced energy in the summer (when demand is low) and be able to use it in winter (when demand is high). That was and still not easy to achieve in places like Canada and the North Eastern portion of the US. Daily Storage, whether thermal storage with water tanks or electricity storage with DC batteries is very common in North America, however the stored energy can not last more than couple of days.

Why and When Closed Loop Horizontal Geothermal fails to deliver promised Energy Savings in Cold Climates?

When Properly designed and installed, Closed Horizontal Loop combined with a Liquid Source (Geothermal) Heat Pump, delivers significant amount of thermal energy that can be used for Space Heating and Cooling, Domestic Hot Water Heating, Snow Melting, Process Heating, etc....

Air to Water Heat Pump, Monoblock or Split? Find out Pros and Cons of each configuration

Whether Monoblock or Split Configuration, ATW Heat Pumps remain a smart investment for customers not willing to break the bank to have a complete Renewable Energy Heating/Cooling System. A right answer for one project could be the wrong one for another. This Blog will outline the characteristics of each configuration (Split or Monoblock) and will leave the choice for the Designer, Installer or Client.

What's the Best Sustainable Investment? Solar, Geothermal, Air to Water Heat Pump, etc...?

This Blog gives the reader a guideline on how to determine the best sustainable development strategy for his home or business. People are usually confused on what makes sense and what does not make sense.