Solar Heating Savings

As we mentioned a few days ago, solar heating is a new trend that can save you a lot of money. You simply capture the radiation from the sun and use it to heat water to use in your house. Here are some great statistics from The Press Association on how much money it can save you:

Solar water-heating systems can provide as much as 60% of a home's hot water if they are properly installed and used, research into the technology has shown.

On average, the systems provide 39% of a household's hot water, a study of 88 homes which had solar thermal panels installed found, but there was a wide variation in how well they performed.

While the best systems were able to deliver 60% of the hot water demands of the home, some were providing as little as 9%, the study for the Energy Saving Trust said.

With most solar hot water systems retro-fitted into existing homes and heating units, good quality installation and insulation, for example of hot water tanks, was key to delivering a high performance.

And the way people use their hot water will also affect how much benefit they get from the technology.

For more information about how solar water heating can help you (and how to utilize it efficiently), check out the full article.