How It Works

Flat Solar Panels or Solar Evacuated Tubes collect sunlight which in turn heats up fluid carried in pipes underneath a glass surface.

These tubes or panels carry the heated liquid into your hot water cylinder through a heat exchanger which then heats up your hot water.

All solar systems require a solar heating cylinder which is a twin coil cylinder or thermal store. This will replace your old cylinder and work alongside your normal boiler. The solar panels heat up the bottom of the solar cylinder, the boiler heats up the top.

Your solar heating system is rarely independent, and can connect to your other heating systems and boilers.

Benefits

• Solar heating (Solar thermal) is one of the most cost effective Renewable energy systems.
• Can provide up to 70% of your hot water needs.
• Wide range of solar hot water products offering great value for money.

Solar Thermal for Heated Swimming Pools

Swimming pools are big energy users and anyone who owns one knows this. The good news is that you can slash your bills with Solar thermal pool heating.

Typical payback for solar thermal pool systems are around 5 years - one of the fastest paybacks of all renewable energy solutions (comparable to insulation measures) and a big saver for swimming pool owners. This will accelerate in April 2011 when the government introduces the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) paying you for the heating offsets, similar to the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) scheme for electricity.

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