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180 hybrid solar panels on a parking canopy for a municipal swimming pool – Sète (FR)


Dalkia, global leader in energy services, selected DualSun as an efficient and competitive solution for heating the commercial swimming pools of Sète and Perpignan, two cities in the southwest region of France.  

Coupled with heat pumps and a natural gas boiler, the 180 DualSun panels installed on a parking lot canopy reduce the primary energy consumption of the Sète municipal swimming pool by 33%.

Interview with Jean-Paul Girard, DALKIA Project Manager. “I’m a thermal engineer and I have been working at DALKIA for 26 years in energy efficiency. I’ve worked in particular with renewable energy sources (biomass, solar), heat networks, electricity production, and of course on the energy efficiency of systems!”

How did this project start?
Everything started with a similar project in Perpignan. We had won an Energy Performance Contract for the two cities which was supposed to generate a maximum of energy economies. I’m particuarly interested in innovative technologies and I had discovered DualSun while reading Le Moniteur (a technical magazine) in 2012.In 2014, the ADEME created a new call for tender program called New Emerging Technologies (NET), it was the perfect opportunity to test this technology supported by this subsidy. There was a specific “hybrid solar” category, so we applied for Perpignan, and then for Sète.

How many people use this swimming pool?
120,000 people per year.

How is the energy generated by this installation used?
To produce hot water for the showers, to pre-heat the pools, and to generate electricity for the building.

Why did you chose DualSun solar panels for this project?
We chose DualSun because the panels are well adapted for heating swimming pools. These panels are designed to do low-temperature heating, which allows to optimize production. Moreover, with a swimming pool, there is a “match” between the consumption of the pools and the production of the panels that works well with solar. There is no need to store a lot of hot water, and it is easy to discharge surplus production in the swimming pools, which become thermal storage tanks for the installation! The DualSun panels helped us win this project!

Technical Information

CharacteristicsPool heating and hot water heating for the showers
Number of solar panels180 DualSun solar hybrid panels
Power output45kWp + 67.32kWth
Roof installationInroof integration on parking canopy, south facing, 10° angle
Thermal systemBackup system includes a gas boiler and 3 water-water 100 kW heat pumps
Photovoltaic systemSelf-consumption of the electricity for the building
Installation date

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