The Fadl Group is committed to innovative sustainable practices and products in its developments, building construction technologies and methodologies and future manufacturing processes.
The Fadl Group constantly monitors environmental performance and world’s best practise to achieve energy efficiencies and to reduce demand.
The design cornerstone in each of the Fadl Group’s developments is energy efficient buildings from exterior to interior building fabric, lighting, cooling and heating systems.
The Fadl Group researched and designed a Solar Heat Pump hot water system that delivers genuine environmental outcomes in terms of energy and cost savings and therefore significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Fadl Solar Systems was established in 2004 for the assembly, sales and marketing of heat pump hot water systems. The Solar Heat Pump is a feature in each of The Fadl Group’s developments.
The Australian Conservation Foundation in its document Recipe for Liveable Sydney points to the energy efficiencies and environmental benefits of Solar Heat Pump hot water systems compared with conventional electric water systems.
Fadl Solar Systems has achieved a price point which makes Solar Heat Pumps affordable for all Australians. An innovative financing package has been developed for heat pump purchase, installation and service/warranty.
The Fadl Solar Heat Pump works by transferring heat - not by converting electrical energy to heat. Modelling shows that the Solar Heat Pump is two and half to four times more efficient that an electric heat element.
Heat pump technology is able to reduce household electricity consumption by approximately 25% and reduce CO2 equivalent emissions by an estimated three tonnes per dwelling per year. (SEQROC Sustainable Housing Code Draft 8 June 2004).
By converting solar energy from the air to heat water, rather than heating the water with electrical energy, heat pumps are able to reduce hot water heating costs by approximately 70 percent compared with a standard electric unit. (SEQROC Sustainable Housing Code Draft 8 June 2004). Water heating accounts for over 30% of domestic electricity consumption in Australia.
Unlike roof solar panels, Fadl Solar Heat Pumps do not rely on direct sun to generate hot water. Heat energy is transferred from the air to the hot water tank through the simple compression and expansion of a refrigerant gas, which provides hot water both day and night and through all seasons.
Fadl Solar Heat Pumps have no roof panels, need not face north, and can be installed either inside or outside the home, depending on space availability.
Heat pumps have been utilised as a trusted technology in Europe for more than 25 years, are low impact, and suitable for a range of domestic and commercial building installations - including multi-residential dwellings.
The installation procedure is as simple and cost-efficient as for electric systems.
The Commonwealth Government’s 2% renewable energy target seeks a reduction in CO2-e emissions of 100 million tonnes by 2020. The conversion of Australia’s electric hot water systems to heat pump systems, when combined with existing programs, would deliver more than double that target. Conversion of five million existing electric hot water units to solar heat pumps would reduce emissions by 15Mt of CO2-e per year.
Heat pump technology, with appropriate government approval and endorsement, could reliably generate renewable energy certificates in accordance with the provisions of the Commonwealth’s Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000.
