There have been some big improvements in the design of solar hot water systems that has made them a much more affordable option if you want to make solar power and cut your hot water bills, heat your home and reduce your carbon footprint.
You don’t have to live in “big sunshine” locations to install these new and very economic solar hot water systems.
Throughout the US, Canada, Australia and the UK it is now very affordable to make solar power heat your hot water and even your entire home.
This article details how solar energy can be used to heat water in your home, and sets out the main types of residential solar power systems available.
I also have provided some videos with additional information on how solar power works.
In residential facilities, a solar hot water installation will consist of solar panels that gather energy from the sun, and a system to move the heat from the solar collector to a tank where it can be store and put to use.
Solar panels are usually placed on the roof of a house but they can be placed anywhere as long as the location will provide maximum sunlight to be collected by the panels so they can make solar power.
Solar hot water systems can utilize direct sunlight as well as defused sunlight. This means the sunlight doesn’t need to be shining directly on your collector all the time in order to heat your water.
There are two main categories of solar hot water systems.
The first is a compact or passive system, and is simpler to put in and more basic in design (and therefore cheaper) but is less efficient in collecting the sun’s energy and does not cope well with colder climates.
The second is an active system, which is more expensive and more complicated, but more efficient and better able to cope with cold weather locations
In a passive system, there is no external energy input such as electricity to pump water around.
The first type of passive system is an integral collector. In this type the water tank is both the storage place for hot water and the place that collects the sunlight to heat it.
It is basically a large water tank generally located on the roof of a house where and the water inside it is heated by sunshine.
Another type of passive system is the Thermosyphon.
With these kinds of systems the water tank is installed above the collector panels. Warm water rises after being heated and cold water sinks back into the collecting panels.
This is an a cheap and reliable solution as long as you live in a sunny location.
Active systems pump and control the hot water, and generally use electricity to do so.
You can install some solar panels to make solar power generate the electricity required to operate your system. These systems are generally far more cost effective and better able to cope with cold weather.
With active systems, the tank is located inside the building and liquid is pumped from the solar energy collection panels to the tank as it heats up.
The vast majority of these systems are a closed loop, which means that they require a heat exchange.
This requires that the solar panel system and the fluid in it is fully closed, and the water in the tank is not heated directly by the sunshine but the heat is transferred from the fluid heated by the sun into the water in the tank.
This has advantages, as antifreeze can be put in the closed loop, and reduces the risk of lime scale and other minerals caking up in the closed loop system as the fluid is not continuously replaced.
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