PHOENIX—Phoenix-based Easy Energy just announced the completed installation of a solar water heating system at the Orange Tree Golf Resort, one of Arizona’s finest luxury golf resort destinations. The solar water heating system is designed to offset the natural gas usage in the nine large boilers throughout the Scottsdale Golf Resort. It is estimated that the new system will save 465 tons of CO2 annually, which equates to planting 34,500 trees each year. The new system provides all 160 Orange Tree Golf Resort guestrooms and on-site laundry facilities with water heated by the Arizona sun.
“Solar water heating is the most efficient way to capture solar sunlight,” says Brian Bartel, president of Easy Energy. “With over 300 days of abundant sunshine available every year, the Phoenix area is ideal for implementing widespread solar technology. Any Arizona business operation that heats water without incorporating solar technology, including hotels, laundromats, apartment communities and hospitals, are wasting money and fossil-fuel resources.”
Easy Energy installed more than 200 flat panel solar collectors on the resort’s rooftops and added large storage tanks in the boiler room to optimize the efficiency of the system. The entire project installation took approximately six weeks from start to finish.
The installation of solar is one of several initiatives the Orange Tree Golf Resort has undertaken to become more sustainable. Bruce Hamm, general manager of the Orange Tree Golf Resort, says the benefits are two fold. “The solar water heating system has decreased our overall energy costs, and guests appreciate our efforts to be more environmentally conscious,” he says.
“I am proud to offer money-saving solutions for businesses in the energy sector and even more proud to accomplish the objective with nearly exclusive use of American-made materials and an Arizona labor force,” says Holly Rodriguez, managing member of Easy Energy.
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