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Heliotropic Technologies' Prior Experience Providing Energy Engineering Services
Heliotropic Technologies has a wealth of experience that will be critical in making your renewable energy (solar electric, or solar hot water) system or your energy management program successful.
Heliotropic Technologies, its staff, and our affiliated allies have the broad experience needed in identifying energy management projects, applying appropriate energy efficiency technologies and measures, managing construction, monitoring and verifying the results, and the installations.
We assemble a team of experienced individuals to provide the range of services and complete the required tasks.
Heliotropic Technologies, has existed at its Boothbay Harbor location offering a menu of similar services since 1980.
It started when principal, Michael J. Mayhew, applied for DOE Appropriate Technologies grants in 1980 and received top 4.0 marks for technical feasibility for several innovative energy products.
During its early years Heliotropic Technologies designed/built attached greenhouses, a USDA grant funded solar heated aquaculture (oyster) growing system, as well as designed and sold solar hot water systems. In 1984, sensing a decline in the demand for Renewable Energy Systems and an increased demand in the Energy Efficiency Engineering, Michael became a Maine Certified (#310) Energy Auditor, and a Dept. of Energy Registered Technical Analyst for the “Schools and Hospital' Institutional Energy Program.
In 1986 Michael attended U.W. to complete an Energy Auditing course, and in ‘89' came back to U.W. and took Commercial/Industrial Energy Analysis. Michael ran Bangor Hydro-electric Company's Payload (Performance Contracting) Program out of his house in Brewer, Maine and in 2000 was employed at U.M.'s Department of Engineering as Chief Engineer at the Industrial Assessment Center, performing facility assessments throughout Maine and NH.
Heliotropic Technologies has been actively supplying solar systems and providing energy engineering services to property management firms, ESCos, Municipalities and commercial property owners.
Being a part of the design tean, we provided energy engineering design assistance for a new school project, which became Maine's first state-owned LEED certified building, Brewster Hall the new middle school at Gov. Baxter's School for the Deaf, in Falmouth.
Heliotropic Technologies' Comprehensive Energy Consulting Services are designed to develop programs that produce verified annual savings.
Rather than focusing on the only the fastest payback measures such as lighting and pipe insulation, Heliotropic Technologies designs program measures that address a wide variety of end-uses, producing savings through improvements and upgrades to lighting systems, boiler systems, Building Automation Systems (BAS), ventilation and pumping motors, domestic hot water systems, Fuel switching with condensing boilers, demand control ventilation, pipe insulation, building envelope and caulk/weatherstripping savings, air conditioning and water conservation, as well as Indoor Air Quality improvements.
We also can help guide clients to assure cost efficient, reliable energy procurement. Heliotropic Technologies and its affiliated allies work from their Maine-based offices to provide services to meet our customers' present and future energy needs throughout the twenty-first century. We believe that this long term customer service commitment provides the best opportunities to ensure that Heliotropic Technologies' Energy Management program successfully meets the needs of our clients.