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Why Solar Water Heating
There are many reasons for choosing solar water heating for your domestic hot water and swimming pools. One of the biggest advantages of solar water heating is to reduce your carbon footprint as well as your yearly fuel bills.

How Much will it reduce your bills?

It is hard to say exactly how much it will reduce your bills as this is dependent on the fuels you use and the efficiency of your water heating apperatus, however we can say that on average a correctly specified system will produce 80% of your hot water.

Not only does it offer massive savings on your fuel bills but prolongs the life of your boilers & immesions as they are only occasionally used to top up the solar heated water.

How Much will it reduce my carbon emissions?

Again it is hard to give an exact figure but as a rule of thumb you will achive approximately 500kwh per year of energy per 1m2 of solar panel with the average house will use 4m2.

With this in mind below is an average of co2 savings.

If you usually heat your water with electric your saving is 840kg/co2
If you usually heat your water with gas your saving is 460kg/co2

The reductions are mainly dependent on lifestyle and your CO2 savings can be greater by integrating other technologies such as solar photo voltaic, wind turbines, low energy lighting, energy efficient underfloor heating or just by increasing the insulation within the property.

Sustainability for new builds and renovations

The most cost effective way to comply to sustainability rulings within your planning application is to add solar water heating. Heating your water for domestic usage will be approximately 20% of your overall heating costs.

In new builds due to higher insulation values this could be upto 40% of your heating cost making it easy to exceed the 10% sustainability using solar water heating.

Increase energy efficiency further by using the Allbrite high efficiency underfloor heating making your home a "fossil fuel free zone".