Domestic Solar Powered Hot Water System

Domestic hot water (DHW) heating is the second-highest energy cost in a typical household. An average family of four, using an electric hot water heater and paying nine cents per kilowatt-hour, will spend about $400 a year on hot water. Using solar energy to heat your water can reduce this cost by 65% or more. Solar water heating also helps protect our environment. Over its lifetime, a solar hot water system can eliminate over ten tons of pollutants that cause acid rain and global warming by reducing emissions of air pollutants from power plants and fossil fuel hot water heaters.

All of our solar hot water systems are used as pre-heaters in conjunction with a conventional backup heating system. This means everyone can use solar hot water regardless of whether electricity, propane, oil, or another fuel is currently used.

Solar Works offers several types and sizes of solar systems, all pre-engineered and pre-packaged for maximum cost savings and ease of installation. Our Solar Boiler â„¢ systems are designed for residential hot water heating. Our larger closed-loop systems are designed to provide space heating or pool heating in addition to domestic hot water. All our systems come with the best warranties in the industry–a full ten-year warranty on collectors, heat exchangers, and tanks.

Can I Connect My Home Solar Panel System Up With My Boiler?

This can be done only if your boiler is one of the few that can accept pre-heated water.

You should Check with the manufacturer before buying a new boiler. In most cases you’ll need a separate water tank.

Purchasing a more energy efficient boiler can save you upto 1/3 on your annual fuel bill.

You can reduce the heat lost from the hot water tank by up to 75 per cent, just by fitting a good thick insulating jacket,with in six months it would have paid for itself.

Try reducing the temperature of stored hot water, set the cylinder thermostat at 60 degrees this should still be hot enough.