Solar, Hydro, and Wind

Renewable energy refers to naturally replenished energy sources derived from the environment, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat. Concerns about climate change as well as volatile oil prices have led to increased government and commercial support for renewable energy technologies.

Southern Research has been on the forefront of demonstrating and evaluating a range of advanced energy and waste-to-energy technologies in the renewable energy sector. Specifically, our focus is to provide detailed assessments of the environmental, technical, operational, and economic impacts of renewable energy technologies.

• Southern Research manages the demonstration of a solar-driven HVAC system that utilizes solar thermal water heating systems to drive an adsorption chiller, providing air conditioning to commercial/industrial buildings as well as domestic hot water and space heat
• We have completed the demonstration and evaluation of a geothermal hot water heating system comprised of a ground source heat pump; this innovative system uses the ground as a heat source for providing hot water to commercial facilities as a replacement for gas or electric water heaters or boilers
• Southern Research is interested in demonstrating a variety of similar technologies in the solar and geothermal sectors in addition to small marine hydrokinetic systems (i.e., wave, tidal, and current power) and small wind energy systems