This East Lothian installation was our first Biotech 35kW system. Designed to provide space heating and hot water to a farm house with a 70000kW hr annual demand. Space heating is via traditional radiators and underfloor heating. The auto fed Biotech 35kW PZ model was housed remotely from the house in an adjacent garage and…
Category: Case Studies
Case Studies
Biotech Installation in 16th c Smiddy
Biomass Boiler installed in 16th Century Blacksmiths outside toilet! Lothian Renewables turned this 16th century blacksmiths toilet, which is now a two bedroom cottage between Haddington and Gifford , into a 21st century Biomass Boiler Room. The dimensions of the outhouse were perfect for the boiler (a 15kW Biotech MPW Manual Feed) and an 800…
SMA Tripower Inverter- Intelligent String Failure Detection
Lothian Renewables were asked to rectify a “fault” on 50kW roof mounted PV system where one of the 3 SMA Tripower 15000TL inverters was showing an error code and not producing any output. ” String B defective Check generator” After some initial system checking the problem was diagnosed to an issue with the Intelligent String Failure…
Flat Roof PV by RECA
The Completed install. Work began today on a combined pitched roof and flat roof PV system. After confirming from a structural report that the roof was satisfactory for a ballasted flat roof system the RECA Low ballast system was specified. The picture above shows the initial layout, orientated to point south. The system will…
25kW Biomass System in time for Christmas.
Commissioned just in time for Christmas 2013 a Biotech 25kW biomass heating system will ensure a warm house for all this Christmas. The heating system was installed into a spacious traditional cottage outside Drem in East Lothian to replace an existing all electric system, a comprehensive heat loss survey carried out by Lothian Renewables suggested…
14th Century Castle Heating Upgrade.
Viridian Solar
Lothian Renewables recently commissioned another Viridian Solar installation. The one bedroom house reguired a singe V20 in-roof collector to provide circa 50% of annual hot water demand. A new twin coil tank was fitted to replace the older poorly insulated tank and allow for storage from both the solar system and the condensing gas boiler. …
Methil, Fife, Summer Competition
Renewables recently completed this large domestic installation in Methil, Fife. The installation was one of the largest domestic systems consisting of the maximum 4kW solar PV and a 3 panel Solar Thermal system. The photograph shows part of a 16 panel Canadian Solar PV array and a 3 panel, in roof Kingspan Renewables thermal collector.…
25kW Biotec Installation
Lothian Renewables have just commissioned this 25kW biomass installation in an old stone built farmhouse the Scottish Borders just outside Earlston. After evaluating a number of quotations the customers accepted the design to install a Biotec TLM BMW pellet boiler to replace the existing oil fired unit. The process began with a detailed site survey…
St Andrews Day First
On a bright clear and frosty St Andrews day, Lothian Renewables put the finishing touches to the first installation carried out as part of the currently available discounted solar thermal scheme running in East Lothian, probably the greatest renewables deal running in the UK if you live in and around Dunbar! More details available here