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Pushing the commercial and residential renewable energy boundaries with news and views from the team at Appalachian Energy.

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Entries Tagged as 'thermal'

We’re helping Arby’s go solar!

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

We finally get to talk publicly about an exciting project that has been keeping us busy for the last month or so. Our biggest regional Arby’s franchisee, “The Winning Team”, is taking a big step towards greater environmental and economic sustainability by going solar. In a few weeks we will have installed our solar hot […]

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Tags: commercial · install · thermal

Helping NBC to spread the word on green, clean energy

November 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Seems you can’t turn on the tv without stumbling across a “green” special. This week, NBC are launching their “GREEN is universal” campaign.
We want to help spread the word too, so we are offering groups in the Asheville area our new presentation on the benefits of solar thermal systems. Here are some slide from […]

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Tags: residential · thermal

Feds say solar hot water systems are, er… hot!

November 1st, 2007 · No Comments

Yes, it’s official. Our friends at the National Renewable Energy Lab , or NREL, in Golden, Colorado, have produced a timely reminder that using solar thermal panels to produce hot water is a much more effective (and cheaper) way of reducing our nation’s energy use and generally helping to save the planet, than installing solar-electric […]

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Tags: residential · thermal

Secrets of the solar storage tank!

October 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Our solar storage tank is not just an everyday water tank. The design has been perfected over many years by its German designers and it is now one of the most popular solar storage tanks in Europe. We thought folks would like a look at the inside so we opened one up, and our […]

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Tags: residential · stiebel · thermal

Welcome to Appalachian Energy

October 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

Welcome to our blog, where we will be talking about what’s new at Appalachian Energy, what our dealers and other partners are up to, and generally keeping track of our nation’s transformation to a clean energy future.
McNutt Service Group, our dealers in our home region around Asheville, had a perfect location for their first residential […]

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Tags: install · residential · stiebel · thermal