The Caribbean Air Conditioning is crucial, due to very high temperatures, which cause many deaths per year. Most cooling in Curaçao for example is done by electric power through hazardous refrigerant compression. Although electricity is very expensive. AC Caribbean can improve the cost and the polution.
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How to save on electricity for Residential & Commercial Air Conditioning in the Caribbean 1
How can you find cost saving potential for your real estate 1
How to save real estate water costs in Curaçao 2
Caribbean Air Condition Building types 3
How to cut on costs for Air Conditioning in the Carrebean 3
How to save on electricity for Residential & Commercial Air Conditioning in the Caribbean
35 cents / kWh
Cost for one Kilowatt-hour is 0,35 Dollar. 2/3 of the grid power is petroleum.
Photovoltaics will last for approximately 15 years. If you calculate the investment to the lifecycle income one Kilowatt hour Solar cooling comes to 0,1 Dollar / kWh.
So you can save a third of your electricity bill. That is really no more secret
How can you find cost saving potential for your real estate
The art of good energy concepts is to make a building bringing all the comfort the habitant needs with the lowest life cycle cost.
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Case studies, cost benefit analysis, life cycle analysis, life cycle costs, |
3d HVAC design with Revit, MEP Caribbean (Mechanical-Electrical-Plumbing) Design & Engineering for any application Complete MEP contracting |
Cost calculation of material and labor, quality management, monitoring and system optimization |
Therefore, it is smart to use resources in cycles or use side effects to a benefit.
For example, if you would like to safe utility cost you might recognize the high prices on Water in Curaçao.
How to save real estate water costs in Curaçao
10 Dollar / m³
Every Air conditioning unit take moisture out of the air. This is basically distilled water.
How much water does the AC unit produce on an average day in the Caribbean?
If we take a shop of 100 m² and a supply air stream of 1000 m³/h. (833 kg /h)
The picture shows that by 32 °C and 80 % humidity which could be December 2021 we will harvest
8,3 kg Water per hour
Mostly this water is drained and goes in the sewage directly. Financially approximately
150 $ per year
Could be saved on your water bill.
If the shop has 1000 m² you loose 1500 $ per year and so on.
And also you don’t have ugly mold growing on the wall under the aac-unit.
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kg/h |
air |
833 |
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g/kg |
moist |
10 |
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kg/h |
water |
8,33 |
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h/m |
opening hours |
172 |
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$/a |
saving per year |
172,27 |
If you want to calculate your water production through Air Conditioning AC, feel free to download Venticalc
Rainwater use is an additional fully automated cost cutting option.
Caribbean Air Condition Building types
We plan, design and optimize Cooling processes for
AC in Hotels
AC in Hospitality
AC in Shopping centers
AC in Retail
Cooling in Food Industry
Cooling in Office Buildings
Air Conditioning of residential buildings
AC in non-residential building
How to cut on costs for Air Conditioning in the Carrebean
Did you know that you can cool with heat?
With cheap Solar heat you dry the moisturized and already once cooled air through the heat exchanger. After the drying process you cool it once more by evaporating water in the supply air. Your electricity bill for air conditioning will decrease drastically.
The evaporating water in the return (yellow) air cools it. The heat exchanger in the ventilation unit will cool down the supply air before the heat pump will cool the rest to the desired indoor air temperature. This process will cut on the electricity bill because the compressor doesn’t need to work as hard.
1 gramm of Water can cool 1 kilogramm of air (0,8 m³) about 2,5 °Celsius down.
Improve your AC System
The prices for Electricity in Curaçao and the entire Caribbean will rise. The expenses for the CO2 emissions will make a system change necessary.
Circular economy can reduce waste and safe you a lot of money as the example above might show.
Your business can be resilient for the future and the publicity effect of green technologies will increase your customers and cash flows.
If you wonder how your specific building can be improved technically, feel free to send a mail.