As a Serviced Hot Water provider, Smart Energy Systems installs and operates a commercial hot water plant on behalf of the owners of a building that has a community utilities scheme and a body corporate.
The system has a central hot water plant and each apartment is metered and billed independently. Smart Energy Systems maintains, repairs and replaces the plant components at its own costs for the duration of the agreement.
Benefits for Building Developers
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Continuous hot water with reduced hot water infrastructure plant costs and no individual hot water systems.
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Designed specifically for your requirements, Smart Energy Systems serviced hot water is suitable for most complexes from ‘six packs’ to
high-rise apartment towers. It is ideal for residential complexes because it avoids installing individual hot water systems in each
apartment, thus maximising floor space.
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Technical specialists advise the type of hot water plant and most appropriate energy source, natural gas or LPG, for the building design.
The plant will ideally be installed during construction. Adding a hot water plant during a building refurbishment will be considered on a
case-by-case basis.
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Owned and maintained by Smart Energy Systems, the centralised hot water reduces the initial cost to developers and owners. in some
instances, the developer will pay little or no installation cost.
Billing is based on the amount of hot water used. Each apartment is
metered independently and residents are generally billed directly.
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Natural gas or LPG is also an environmentally friendly fuel ideal for
other uses in multiple occupancy living such as ovens and cook tops,
pool heating, restaurant kitchens and BBQ’s.
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Smart Energy Systems maintains, repairs and replaces the plant components at its own costs for the duration of the contract.
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A central system reduces energy waste. Storage water is reduced to
approx 10% of what would be installed with individual hot water systems.
Energy is wasted in maintaining this system. There are also hot water
losses up to 20 litres per day (considered normal) released from the
relief valve of individual storage tanks. The relief valve drips
allowing expanding hot water to be released to a waste outlet.
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Greenhouse Gases are reduced substantially. With an electric hot
water system each apartment using 100 litres per day would produce 3
Tonnes of C02 emissions per year. With an environmentally friendly high
efficiency gas system the same emissions per apartment would be .80
Tonnes of C02 emissions per year. Queensland Government Sustainable
Building codes introduced in 2006 now ban electric hot water systems
from new installations and renovations in class one buildings.
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The owner and body corporate has no ongoing maintenance costs and
replacement costs usually associated with individual hot water systems.
