Awesome to see some big solar water heating projects being rolled out! This one has 270 collectors. At a guess, this system can deliver around 45,000 litres of hot water per day, although they only have 28 000 litres of storage, which is a bit small. It works out at 45 litres each day for each of the 1500 miners– enough for a short quick efficient shower. I hope they were clever enough to put low flow heads on the showers!
As the storage is a bit small, the electrical side will definitely kick-in between shifts, which is a bit of a waste, and on such a large system, why they did not use a heat pump instead of the electrical backup I do not know. Frank
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