Wineries
- Barrel Washing and Sterilization
- Washing down of Facility Tanks, Equipment and Floors
- Bottling Line/Bottle Sterilization Before Filling
- Heating Barrel Storage Rooms
- Sterile Cleansing (commercial dishwasher’s etc)
- Domestic Hot Water Heating for Bathrooms, Kitchen, Labs and Tasting Room Sinks
- Space Heating the Tasting Rooms
- 30% Federal Tax Credit
- California Solar Initiative Rebate
- Accelerated depreciation in the first year
- Some cities and counties offer additional incentives as well (varies per area…you can see if your area has incentives by going to www.energy.gov)
Breweries
Breweries need hot water to brew their beer to perfection…Beer is 90+% water by weight. Brewery cleaning and sanitation is essential to consistently great craft beer and also requires a healthy amount of clean, hot water.
Just like wineries, breweries use a significant amount of hot water and electricity to make their beer and keep things clean and sanitized. Our Solar Thermal System can displace the propane, natural gas or electricity you use for heating water and our PV systems can offset your electricity bills to reduce your expenses and carbon footprint.
- Kilning (electricity)
- Mashing (hot water mash temperature may be raised to about 75–78 °C/167–172 °F)
- Boiling
- Space heating for fermentation
- Washing down of Facility, Kettles, Tanks, etc.
- Bottle Cleaning and Sterilization
- Domestic Hot Water Heating for running facility and brewpub
Here is a great tutorial about how Solar Thermal can benefit a brewery. The difference between the system Milwaukee Brewing Company used and ours system is our system uses evacuated tubes which collect UV Rays and can produce hot water even on cold cloudy days.
Breweries benefit from the same incentives as Wineries:
- 30% Federal Tax Credit
- California Solar Initiative Rebate
- Accelerated depreciation in the first year
- Some cities and counties offer additional incentives as well (varies per area…you can see if your area has incentives by going to www.energy.gov)