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UK’s largest domestic solar installation
Posted: 11 September 2005

Killick House in Sutton is to benefit from the UK’s largest domestic vacuum tube installation. The project is part of an EU programme to bring the economic and environmental benefits of renewable energy to socially deprived areas.
Plumbase and Solar UK have teamed up to design and provide the largest copper cylinders to be used in a solar heating system in Britain. The two giant hot water cylinders are 1.9 metres high and 1.1 metres in diameter, and hold a total of 3000 litres of water. The cylinders are heated by the system’s solar panels in order to provide hot water for 55 flats.
Killick House is a council-tenanted block at Collingwood Estate, Sutton. Council tenants often pay higher rates for hot water through the use of expensive pre-pay meters. The solar installation will provide lower cost hot water in addition to environmental benefits. The EU’s aim is to reduce costs for lower income households, as well as to encourage the use of renewable energy.
Solar UK is managing the installation and providing all the solar equipment. The company is drawing on the expertise of Plumbase to provide the giant cylinders.
Mark Taylor, manager at Plumbase Crowborough, commented: “It’s very exciting to be involved in what is a first for the plumbing and solar heating industries, and indeed for renewable energy use in the UK.”
Geoff Fox, technical director at Solar UK, said: “We’re proud to be responsible for such a large-scale, high-profile solar installation.”

  
 
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