Saunier Duval has participated as a speaker and as a sponsor in the first edition of GeoEner, Building and Industrial Geothermal Energy Congress, recently celebrated in Madrid. It has welcomed approximately 400 guests, mostly specialist technicians in renewable energies and energy efficiency.

 

Victor Galarza, Product Manager, Energy Efficiency Services, Saunier Duval, offered a presentation on “Built-in energy efficiency systems for single-family households”, a global building HVAC concept which also considers the design of the building (bioclimatic architecture) in order to achieve comfort and energy savings, with a remarkable reduction of CO2 emissions. According to Galarza, now the user can install energy efficiency built-in systems, including not only equipment but also other services, such as, for exemple, the commissioning and preventive maintenance of the installation, which ensure the optimal operation of the system. Naturally, he warns, one must take into account the correct installation of the equipment.

 

One of these systems, adds the speaker, is the one that integrates two highly energy efficiency solutions: ground source heat pumps and radiant floors (heating and refrigeration). And he states that this system takes advantage in an optimal way of both the thermal inertia of the outside grounds (geothermal energy accumulated on the planet’s surface) and the thermal inertia of the household (accumulated energy on the floor, walls, ceiling, …), minimizing the effects of external factors that change the temperature inside the house during the winter or summer. He finally concludes by remembering that a ground source heat pump supplies us with domestic hot water all through the year, reveals the company’s press release.