First bishop's residence with solar panels
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03/09/2009
The Bishop of Liverpool's official residence, Bishop's Lodge, has become the first Bishop's House in the UK to meet its hot water needs thanks to solar power.
The installation of this solar technology was made possible through the efforts of Merseyside Fire and Rescue Services technology partner - Telent. They worked with specialist manufacturer and supplier Romasol Sustainable Technologies who installed a state of the art high performance solar hot water system.
Providing Bishops Lodge with solar technology was out of recognition of the work in the community that the Bishop does with Merseyside Fire and Rescue Services.
For Bishop James Jones, a well respected environmental campaigner and commentator, this was a practical demonstration of how individuals can make changes in their own lifestyle choices which can then have an impact on reducing global warming.
Bishop James said "it is important we all find ways to contribute to reducing the burden on the global environment and these panels will certainly help reduce the carbon footprint of Bishops' Lodge."
Dharminder Singh Thiara, Project Manager at Telent said "The delivery of this project gives me a lot of personal satisfaction. As well as doing my job, I have done something towards sustaining our environment.. "
Romas Aleknavicius Chief Engineer said "We at Romasol are delighted to have been able to help Bishop James become the first Bishop in the UK to have a solar hot water system installed."
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Telent, a technology services company who alreadyworking on green initiatives with very strict environmental policies including the reduction of carbon emissions through it's activities and aiming to become carbon neutral.
Telent, is Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service's technology partner for more than six years. Both organisations already working on a number of environmental projects decided to explore the renewable energy resources avenue and chose Bishops Lodge for their first solar power project.
For information about Telent then contact Djaminder
Romasol is one of UK's number one renewable energy companies they have a relentless commitment to continuous care in every aspect and detail of delivering a project with best available sustainable technologies and to maintaining them in the future.
For information about Romasol then contact Romas on 01745 550 455
Features of the system
- Decommission and remove old hot water cylinder Installed a 500 liter unvented stainless steel twin coil hot water cylinder including all necessary safety kit to comply with the Building Regulations.
- Installed two Viessmann Vitosol 200T SD2-30 evacuated tube solar systems providing a 60 tube array with 6 square meters of solar collector.
- Installed pipe connections between solar panels and solar pump station.
- Integrate existing heating system with new solar system
- Commission solar system.
