Lakeview Holiday Park is a large accommodation provider in Wanaka, Central Otago. In peak summer, up to 1,000 people stay per night in tents, campervans and cabins.
Aggi & Rudi Sanders, the Holiday Park lessees, have undertaken significant upgrades to the park. In 2016, they commissioned an environmentally sustainable and highly energy-efficient building with four large bathrooms and a kitchen dining room.
These bathrooms provide showers for up to 700 people, using up to 12,000L of hot water per day in summer.
Aggi & Rudi asked Apricus and May Plumbing to design a high-performance, environmentally sustainable and affordable water heating system.
The result? “It’s great. I’ve had my first gas bill to compare with last year and it almost went down half and we were a lot busier this year than last year,” Aggi Sanders.
The system was designed using drain back methodology to cope with the climatic extremes of Central Otago. This is a unique approach when using evacuated tube technology.
Despite the size being limited by roof area available the system is providing 39 per cent of annual energy required to heat the water.
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Apricus specialises in sustainable hot water and central heating systems for residential and commercial buildings. We work with architects, specifiers, facility managers and homeowners to bring solutions that reduce their environmental impact and meet their hot water and central heating needs.
Apricus brings the latest renewable hot water technologies into the New Zealand market, leading with innovative solar hot water collectors, CO2 hot water heat pumps and pellet biomass boilers. We aim to offer the most reliable eco alternatives to burning fossil fuels like gas, oil and coal.
Our products include:
- Apricus All In One - heat pump for domestic hot water heating.
- Reclaim Energy Heat Pump - for domestic hot water heating.
- EasyPell Heat Pump - for domestic heating, cooling & hot water heating.
- Easypell Pellet Boiler - domesitc heating & hot water.
- ÖkoFEN Pellet Boiler - commercial heating & hot water.
- Apricus - evacuated tube solar hot water systems for homes and commercial buildings.
Our pellet biomass boilers are produced by one of Europe's leading manufacturers, ÖkoFEN, a specialist in pellet boilers and a supplier of space-saving, cost-effective, simple solutions for storing pellets. Offering storage tanks suitable for all space and pellet requirements. The pellet boilers can provide enough hot water for even the most extensive home heating needs, using radiators, underfloor pipework, or a combination. The wood pellets burned are made in New Zealand from waste sawdust and wood shavings, providing 100% renewable heating, whatever the temperature outside.
Our range of hot water heat pumps use some of the most environmentally friendly refrigerants while offering outstanding performance. The very low global warming potential makes these systems the perfect electric alternative to gas hot water systems. Households can now reduce their energy costs and improve the sustainability of their home with ease.
The Apricus solar systems have robust frames, easy-to-use controllers and high-efficiency pumps. The high-performance, reliable designs can withstand New Zealand’s extreme environmental conditions. This is combined with a careful focus on quality and continual improvement by the team at Apricus International.
All complete system packages are individually designed for maximum savings, and on-shore technical support and global experience ensure quality and precision for every installation.
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