Saddle Hill Trust Lot 36, Medway, Massachusetts: solar energy system performance evaluation, October 1979 through May 1980

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6870655· OSTI ID:6870655

Brauch, M. L.

Performance of the Saddle Hill Trust Lot 36 solar energy system from October 1979 through May 1980 is described. The solar system is in a single-family residence which has 178 square meters of conditioned space. The home is located in Medway, Massachusetts about 30 km southwest of Boston. The solar energy system is a liquid-based active type, with 29.26 m/sup 2/ of Daystar, flatplate collector area and 2840 liters of water thermal storage. The site experienced average, daily incident, irradiance of 13.93 MJ/m/sup 2/ and an average ambient temperature of 5/sup 0/C during the period described. Under these conditions, the solar energy system supplied 47% of the energy required for space heating and domestic hot water, saving 1237 liters of fuel oil and 3839 kWh of electrical energy.

• Research Organization: Automation Industries, Inc., Silver Spring, MD (USA). Vitro Labs. Div.
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-79CS30027
• OSTI ID: 6870655
• Report Number(s): SOLAR/1038-80/14
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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