Sunny side up
Alberta business installs solar panels to be more environmentally conscious and see savings on energy use
In order to produce less carbon and see more of a return on their energy use, Airtech Heating & Air Conditioning Ltd. installed 392 solar panels for a 150 kW system, the equivalent of their annual electrical use.
By Shayna Wiwierski If your company could save money
2019 in order to produce less carbon
to other companies who have gone
on your energy bill every month and
and see more of a return on their
solar and gathered more information,
produce less carbon emissions, would
energy use. Dwayne Huber, president
it made more sense to revisit it,” says
you make the switch? That was the
of Airtech, says that they had been
question that Airtech Heating & Air
considering the switch for a few years
Huber, adding that they considered
Conditioning Ltd. asked themselves
but were unsure of how well it would
before converting their power over to
work, the cost savings, and what they
solar.
would pay for power.
The Lethbridge-based company,
“When we first looked at it, the
asked a simple question, ‘would you do
located at 451 39 Street N., installed
numbers didn’t seem to make it an
it again?’. His answer was ‘Absolutely!’.
solar panels on their building in August
attractive investment, but as we talked
So, that got us more interested.”
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it more seriously in January 2019 and had the system active by August of that year. “We also spoke with another company in town that has solar and I
