solar thermal installation
solar thermal installation
A Solar thermal installation uses heat from the sun to warm the hot water in your home. Sunlight is free, so once you’ve recovered the initial cost of the system your hot water costs will be significantly reduced. When the weather is cold, windy or overcast the tube panels significantly outperform the flat plate panels.
How solar thermal works…
Our well-designed and accurately constructed solar thermal installation uses evacuated tubes, instead of the traditional flat plate panels, which are fitted to your roof. Evacuated tube collectors are comprised of an array of twin wall glass tubes with a vacuum that provides excellent insulation against heat loss. The design is very similar to a glass hot water flask used to keep hot water in. Twin wall evacuated tubes have the absorber coating on the inner tube and the space between the two tubes is ‘evacuated’ to form the vacuum. The tubes utilise the rays from the sun to produce hot water for your home.
- Significant savings on your domestic hot water energy bill
- Heated water throughout the year
- Reduce your carbon footprint
- Minimum maintenance
- Guaranteed return on investment
This environmentally-friendly solution takes about a day to install and can reduce your domestic hot water energy bill up to 90%. The initial cost of the system is recovered within the first few years.
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Solar Thermal FAQs
South-west and south-east facing walls also produce good results. If you’re limited to an east-west facing system then we recommend two sets of evacuated tube collectors, one on the east slope and one on the west slope. This produces the same amount of hot water as a south facing system.
Yes, you generally need a solar collector equivalent to 50% of the pool surface area.
Solar thermal installation uses solar energy to heat water for your home. Solar collectors capture sunlight to produce hot water or heating, reducing energy bills.
A solar thermal system heats water already inside a panel and does not work when there is no sun. Because the refrigerant enters the combi thermodynamic panel at a lower temperature than water, this system is able to work even during the winter and at night. The thermodynamic panel is placed on the roof, ground mounted or wall and ensures the continuing capture of energy from sunlight on cloudy and rainy days.
Solar thermal systems capture the energy of the sun which means they work best during the sunnier summer months. However, there are still significant cost savings to be made when compared with traditional pool heaters.
As such, these are still a great choice and provide a great, all-year round solution when combined with other renewable systems such as an air source heat pump.