Historic Lahaina Inn and Lahaina Grill Both Go Solar - Case Study

Lahaina Grill and Lahaina Inn have substantial energy needs from hot water to air conditioning to electrical. They contacted Haleakala Solar to come up with innovative solutions that would maximize the amount of energy saved and created for the money invested. The design engineers of Haleakala Solar hunkered down and came up a unique plan which incorporated several different techniques and systems.

They included:

• Hot water with "on demand" backup for the Lahaina Inn.
• A $100,000 photovoltaic system that provides for the electricity in the building for Lahaina Grill and Lahaina Inn. The system has a unique internet based monitoring system with login to monitor exact, up-to-the-minute energy savings.
• Recommendations for retrofitting and upgrade of all air conditioning systems for both Lahaina Grill and Lahaina Inn.
• A Waste Heat Recovery System which gathers the heat off of the air- conditioning system and sends it to a heat exchanger which creates approximately 7-8 gallons of extremely hot water per ton per hour (example: in 8 hours of air-conditioning running, 280 gallons of hot water are produced). A highly efficient way to create energy using renewable energy.