"The most reliable, best performing, and lowest cost solar heating system for commercial and industrial buildings available on the market today"
-The United States Department of Energy

SolarWall for the Military

The United States Corp of Engineers has identified the SolarWall transpired collector as one of two cost-effective solar technologies (the other being day-lighting) that is ideally suited for military applications.   Typical military buildings, such as warehouses, vehicle maintenance shops, hangars, and motor pools have high ventilation requirements.   Heating such large volumes of air over the entire heating system using the conventional heaters represents a tremendous cost.  For this reason, the SolarWal transpired collector is routinely specified on new military vehicle maintenance garages and hangars.

The United States Military base at Ft. Drum in upstate New York is home to the largest collection of solar air heated buildings in the world, with 50 SolarWall systems installed on 27 buildings. Collectively, the systems are projected to generate 4MW of peak thermal energy. The base is projected to realize fuel savings of 44 billion BTU/h (46,000 GJ) per year and displace approximately 2,000 tons of CO2.

SolarWall systems are also in use at other U.S. bases, including Fort Carson, Norfolk Naval Base, Edwards Air Force Base, Fort Huachuca, Fort Lewis, Peterson Air Force Base and Buckley Air Force Base, as well as the Canadian bases CFB Suffield and CFB Wainwright.

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