HYBRID PANELS ARE AN EXCELLENT CHOICE
With a new geothermal system
If a new geothermal system is to be procured for the facility, hybrid panels are an excellent choice. They significantly increase the efficiency of the geothermal heat pump, prevent well cooling problems, make it possible to extract a greater amount of energy per well meter, in larger fields make it possible to drill wells significantly closer to each other and significantly improve the charging of the wells. In general, it can be said that with the help of hybrid panels you can get much more out of the geothermal system.
If the plot is not enough for a geothermal system
Plots are small in urban areas. This means that the dimensioning of ground heating systems is lacking in terms of well fields, effect coverage, energy coverage or all of this.
With hybrid panels you usually get a charge rate of 35-50% in the wells. With a loading rate of 50%, for example, the same plot can accommodate 3x more thermal wells while the investment cost for the well field decreases per well.
In other words, hybrid panels make it possible to build a geothermal system in places where it is not normally possible or where it is only possible as a partial solution.
If the current geothermal system is not working optimally
There are many problems associated with the operation of geothermal systems, when the system does not work properly. For example, cooling or freezing of wells can be prevented, and already cooled wells can be revived using hybrid panels.
You are going to renew a heat pump for an old system
In old geothermal systems, the design principles are often different or the energy consumption profile of the object has changed. When the old pump reaches the end of its life, the number of wells drilled may not be sufficient for the new pump. Adding hybrid panels is often significantly cheaper than adapting the well field for a new pump.
Increased heat demand
Sometimes the heat demand increases more than the existing system can handle. In that case, you often have to renew the heat pump, drill more wells or both. In these situations, in most cases it will be significantly cheaper to add hybrid panels.
As a heat exchanger with heat pumps
Hybrid panels can also be used to create a hybrid system with district heating and heat pumps. In this case, the hybrid panels act as a heat exchanger for the heat pumps, providing the base load for the pumps, and the district heating provides the necessary power peaks.