Sustainability and Environment

Xistos Agritourism stands for environmental sustainability.
Xistos has embraced efficient energy use in a process of total self-consumption.

Buildings’ energetic efficiency

• Solar panels;
• Solar hot water panels;
• Central heating with fire wood;
• Wind generator;
• Ecodepur(Biological Waste Water Treatment Plant);
• Rain water use for watering the garden;
• Estate’s waste water plant (controlled by the local water company)

Electrical energy production

• Solar panels;
• Wind generator;
• Batteriesand inverters;
• Back-up generator used in the absence of sun or wind).

 Solar panel with thermosiphon

• Heats the kitchen water and the staff’s quarters;

Sanitary hot water

• 4 solarpanels
• 800-litre deposit
• Back-up boiler used in the absence of sun.

Water Treatment

• Estate’s water treatment plant
• Ecodepur Oxybio waste water treatment plant.

Buildings’ energetic efficiency

• LED lighting;
• Heating (Room and common areas) – radiators
• Energy is produced through a firewood boiler (in the machine room);
• Heating (living rooms) with fireplaces and stoves fuelled with firewood obtained from the estate’s forest clearing.