El Cid Hotel, Mazatlan, Mexico

Pool Orientation: Indoor and Outdoor. The El Cid Mega Resort sought a pool heating system to reduce the tremendous cost of heating the facility's five swimming pools. An innovative system was designed to offset the pool heating expense during the winter, while helping to meet the hotel's domestic hot water needs during the summer. The Heliocol system saves the resort hundreds of thousands of dollars every year by virtually eliminating pool-heating expenses and pre-heating the domestic hot water. The El Cid Mega Resort's Heliocol installation is one of the largest solar pool heating systems in the world.