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Increasingly stringent legislation and escalating fuel costs make solar hot water an even more attractive option.

Private Developments

• Can provide as much as 60% of the annual hot water demand from carbon-free solar energy, making a significant contribution towards Building Regulations Part L compliance.
• A combination of the SAP “Block Assessment” method and a contribution from solar water heating (for example the top floor flats) is an effective means of demonstrating compliance with Part L when specifying electric heating.
• High renewable energy contribution helps ease minimum planning consent obligations.
• Contributes towards high energy efficiency scores for Code for Sustainable Homes ratings.
• Using freestanding mounting brackets the collectors can be mounted on the roof and can not be seen from the ground.
• Solar hot water is ideal for reducing heating costs for direct electric systems.
• Highly marketable “eco” credentials.

Social Housing

• Suitable for new build and refurbishment projects.
• Helps to reduce running costs for hot water usage and therefore contributes towards eliminating fuel poverty.
• Low maintenance costs.
• Significantly reduces building carbon emissions, so helps with Building Regulations Part L compliance and Code for Sustainable Homes ratings for new properties or major refurbishment.
• Ideal complementary water heating solution for the "all electric" home.
  

Home Owners

• Easy to retro fit to existing homes.
• Reduces long term energy bills, maintenance costs and reliance on fossil fuels.
• Reduces building carbon emissions and therefore a property’s “carbon footprint”.
• Contributes towards a higher rated Energy Performance Certificate in the home.
• Government grants available to subsidise purchase and installation costs and VAT levied at only 5%.
• No planning permission required.

Self Build

• Can provide as much as 60% of the annual hot water demand from carbon-free solar energy, so makes a significant contribution towards Building Regulations Part L compliance, particularly in contemporary styled homes with large areas of glazing (ie large space heating heat losses).
• High renewable energy contribution, so helps ease planning consent obligations.
• Reduces long term energy bills, maintenance costs and reliance on fossil fuels.
• Government grants available to subsidise purchase and installation.

Leisure and Commercial

• For large systems, up to 10 panels can be connected in a series, and any required number of arrays connected in parallel using just one pump station and controller.
• Ideally suited for premises with large water usage in the summer months such as lidos, sports clubs, hotels and residential accommodation such as nursing home.