Energy Saving
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It’s no secret that swimming pools are costly to run – but there are a number of ways you can significantly cut running costs to improve efficiency and reduce your carbon footprint.
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Pool Covers
Some of these energy-saving solutions are incredibly simple, like the introduction of a pool cover. This reduces heat loss and evaporation. For indoor pools, this allows the air temperature to be reduced, offering further savings which can be substantial. Take a leisure club pool as an example – if this is covered every night when it’s not in use, that’s a third of the year! There are lots of pool covers available today, from the traditional foam thermal covers to more discreet slatted covers which can be built in.
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Ventilation
Pool hall ventilation is another key area, with air circulation solutions bringing huge cost savings. We work in partnership with Recotherm, experts at efficient pool ventilation, introducing fresh air to control humidity and reducing unnecessary air intake and energy usage.
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Heat Pumps
When it comes to heating your pool, air source heat pumps have become more and more efficient and are now available even for large commercial pools. We see these as the future for heating swimming pools of all sizes - and being electric, they can work in conjunction with PV solar panels, enabling further cost and energy savings. Ground source heat pumps are another good option, providing you have space for a bore hole.
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Inverters/variable speed pumps
A hot topic in the pool industry – intelligent controller inverters can be fitted to existing installations to allow the pump speed to be reduced as and when possible without detrimentally affecting the water quality. Variable speed pumps are also available, which have built-in inverters and offer the same benefits – meaning speed pumps work at the speed they need to, only when they need to.
