Energy cost savings for breweries & food production
Brewing and food & beverage production all share one costly requirement: large, continuous volumes of hot water for mashing, cleaning, sanitation, and process heating. The energy spent heating that water is one of the biggest costs in a production facility - and one of the easiest to offset with solar, particularly in sunbelt zone regions.
PlexiSun has been developed from an award winning concept, to a scalable volume solar hot water heater validated at a test site in a craft brewery in Brisbane, Australia. Early concept performance testing was carried out by TUV Rheinland in Cologne Germany, and test site prototype and data reviewed at VIPAC Melbourne. Rather than starting from a lab prototype, it has been real world developed to meet the real world demands of production facilities.
Those facilities in high-sun regions where electricity costs are often highest and cooling/heating loads are greatest see the fastest paybacks. PlexiSun's construction uses proven, long-life materials with no end-of-life disposal concerns, supporting sustainability commitments increasingly expected by retailers and consumers of food and beverage brands.
HIGH, PREDICTABLE HOT WATER DEMAND
Brewery and food plant solar payback periods are shorter than in typical residential use
ROOF-INTEGRATED, NOT BOLTED-ON
Solar hot water as part of the building envelope - PlexiSun is embeds energy infrastructure
DAYLIGHTING BENEFITS
Reduction in daytime artificial lighting load throughout production and hospitality areas.
MODULAR SCALABILITY
Lets any production facility size its solar hot water capacity to actual production volume.
