• Over 10 years of experience with development and finance of Seawater Air-conditioning

• A unique and proven opportunity with great potential for shore and island nations

• Up to 90% reduction on energy for cooling and Green House Gas

• Up to 40% saving on costs for cooling

• A natural hedge against Oil prices, up to 90%

Ecopower International has over 10 years of experience with the research and project development,  incl. finance of Seawater Air-conditioning systems.

Seawater air-conditioning is an innovative system, which uses cold seawater (between 6 and 10 °C) from the depths of the ocean as a coolant for the air-conditioning systems of buildings situated in a certain radius.

Anywhere around the globe where deep ocean seawater is available (deeper than about 600-800 m) and where the slope of the ocean floor is sufficiently steep, the system can be applied. In moderate climates air-conditioning can also be delivered from thermally stratified lakes with a depth over about 20 m. For higher water intake temperatures hybrid systems can be used.

A Seawater air-conditioning system is suitable for buildings (hotels, offices or industrial processes), which are cooled with conventional central air-conditioning, especially when chilled water runs through these buildings as a coolant.

Some of advantages of a seawater air-conditioning system are:

• Seawater Air-conditioning is proven technology:
• Hawaii, Sweden, Canada (Toronto), USA (New York)
• City cooling is common practice world wide
• Commercially viable
• Up to 90% reduction on energy for cooling and Green House Gas
• Fixed and predictable cooling costs, which could be considerably lower than the total current annual cooling costs.
• Up to 40% reduction in cooling cost for client
• Very low maintenance.
• Very low charge for peak electricity use (only 10% of electric capacity needed).
• SWAC is a natural hedge against oil price fluctuations. No noticeable impact of oil/electricity price increase.
• Practically no noise compared to noisy compressor units of chillers.
• Low space requirement;
• Highly reliable, redundant design, hurricane resistant;
• Expansion plans of development could be covered.
• Green image.
• Contribute to the sustainability of the energy supply and local economies
• New economic sector of agriculture and aquaculture with “free” seawater effluent

Ecopower International delivers the development and operation of Seawater air-Conditioning system. Amongst others our services include: feasibility studies (source and demand evaluation, seabed surveys, pre-engineering, environmental evaluation), financial engineering, financing, contracting and negotiations, engineering, construction supervision and management, exploitation and operational services.