Solar Water Heating

Do you want to do something significantly positive for the environment and for your pockets at the same time?

While conventional water heating appliances cost money and pollute the air, solar hot water heating uses only clean energy from the sun, it consumes no dirty fossil fuels, and it pays for itself in energy savings.

Since hot water heating accounts for one third of the average residential energy consumption, a solar system can reduce that cost by 75%, saving an average of $800.00 a year to a typical 4 member family.

Solar Water Heating Can Be Installed In Any Type Of Climate And On Any Type Of House.

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Hundreds of dollars can be saved annually with solar water heating. In general, the more hot water a household uses, the higher the benefit derived from a solar hot water system and the faster the solar investment will pay for itself.

There is no bigger long-term question facing the global community than the threat of climate change...

Surprising as it may seem, analysts believe that the annual total CO2 produced by residential water heaters throughout North America is roughly equal to that produced by all of the cars and light trucks driving around the continent.

Another way of looking at it is: If half of all households used solar water heaters, the reduction in CO2 emissions would be the same as doubling the fuel-efficiency of all cars!

Solar water heaters do not pollute...

By investing in one, you will be avoiding carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and the other air pollution and wastes created when your utility generates power or you burn fuel to heat your household water.

When a solar water heater replaces an electric water heater, the electricity displaced over 20 years represents more than 50 tons of avoided carbon dioxide emissions alone. Carbon dioxide traps heat in the upper atmosphere, thus contributing to the "greenhouse effect."

Your home is an excellent candidate for a solar water heater if, in addition to the above, it has:

• Water heater that currently consumes expensive fossil fuels or electricity.
• Occupants who enjoy long hot showers or frequent luxuriant baths.
• Appliances that require large amounts of hot water such as a dishwasher or hot tub.
• Young occupants, especially babies or teenagers.

Proven Efficient Technology

Solar Water Heating technologies are a simple, reliable, and cost-effective method of harnessing the sun's energy to provide for the energy needs of homes and businesses.

It can be used for:

• space heating
• pool heating
• water heating

Solar systems obviously work on hot summer days, but they can also deliver bath temperature (40 degrees C) water on a sunny winter day when the outside temperature is -20 degrees C.

Since it has no burner and since the only moving part is the circulating pump, a solar water heater can deliver hot water for many years with a minimum of maintenance. Heating systems are designed to last 20 years and come with a longer warranty period than conventional water heating appliances.

Solar water heating systems are commonly installed in both new and existing houses, especially when renovating, and are integrated with household electricity and gas supplies

Aesthetically, the collectors are the only part of the solar heating system that is visible outside your home. Modern collectors feature sleek, low-profile design, they are attractively appointed, and they are available in various appropriate dark tones to complement a wide variety of building styles.

Inside the home, the solar heating system is completely contained in a small area, usually a mechanical or furnace room, and requires only about the same amount of space as a conventional hot water tank. Piping and wiring for the solar unit is hidden behind walls or in attic spaces, or brought subtly down an outside wall in a run of colour-matched insulated conduit.

Solar heating systems can be sized to efficiently meet the hot water demand of a single occupant home, but the most cost-effective application is in homes which consume large volumes of hot water.

High performance off-grid solar hot water at a brilliant price...

Throughout the day, a system controller compares the temperatures of the solar collectors and an indoor fluid storage reservoir. When there is enough warmth in the collectors to heat the fluid in the reservoir, the controller signals a pump to circulate a heat transfer fluid to the collectors and gather heat.

That sun-heated fluid circulates through a heat exchanger, which delivers the heat into a well-insulated indoor tank of water. From there, the solar heated water feeds into the home’s conventional hot water system as required.

A solar heating system will pay for itself in energy cost savings in three to seven years, equivalent to making 20 to 40% every year on a mutual fund investment.