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Drake Landing Solar Community website
- How It Works - overview
- Homes - building standards and use of garages for mounting collectors
- Solar Collectors - the panels
- The District Heating System - pipework, operating temperatures, warm air heating units in houses
- https://www.dlsc.ca/energy.htm The Energy Centre] - houses two short-term heat storage tanks and most of the mechanical equipment such as pumps, heat exchangers, and controls
- Borehole Thermal Energy Storage - underground structure for storing large quantities of solar heat collected in summer for use later in winter
- Current Conditions - animated graphic showing temperatures at various parts of systems and status of circulators
Borehole Field In The Drake Landing Solar Community, Okotoks, Alberta American Association of Physics Teachers; 21 Jul 2008
Renewable Heat Workshop – Integrating Solar & Heat Pumps Bill Wong (SAIC), Jeff Thornton (T.E.S.S.); SAIC; 31 Jan 2013
- Has some seasonal data for firsat 5 years' operation
Groundbreaking Solar BRUCE SIBBITT, DOUG MCCLENAHAN, REDA DJEBBAR, ASHRAE, KEITH PAGET; High Performance Buildings; Summer 2015
- Drake Landing provides a real-world example of how conventional heating fuel consumption for space heating can be nearly eliminated, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 5.5 tons per house annually. This is made possible in the harsh 9,027 heating degree day climate by using solar heat collectors with seasonal heat storage, energy-efficient house design and construction, and a low temperature district heating network to distribute the heat to the homes.
- Technical and building info