Solar panels & evacuated tubes installations
A new era in domestic energy generation has begun ...
... solar panels and evacuated tubes are a popular way to invest in your home and your energy future - the golden age of cheap energy is over, so reducing dependence on expensive fossil fuels is vital for all households.
Investing in your energy future, while benefiting you today with solar panels and true green energy.
A practical guide to solar panels
With current interest rates and unstable utility energy prices, installing solar panels, currently represent one of the best investments, increasing your properties value and reducing your energy bills long term. This website is designed to educate people on the different solar technologies available for the UK climate.
Why install solar panels?
For some, solar is a statement about your families environmental commitments and it encourages others to follow your lead.
Most people install to insulate themselves from the wave of energy price rises due over the coming years. The UK's North Sea gas production provides a diminishing proportion of our energy requirements leaving the UK to rely on imported, unstable and unsustainable Russian gas supplies.
A quality solar heating system will provide up to 70% of your home's annual hot water or electric requirement, reducing your energy bills and your familys carbon footprint for 25-30+ years.
Additionally solar panels reduce your carbon footprint, your dependency on fossil fuels and your dependency on utility companies by using a free, natural, renewable resource - solar energy.
Solar heating panels
This technology is known as solar thermal or solar hot water, solar thermal is the most commonly utilised solar technology in households across the UK and Europe.
The solar panels takes over from your boilers job of heating your hot water so you don't use any gas, electricity or oil to heat your water, at night your boiler regains control, during the hours of darkness and low solar radiation.
The solar panels gathers heat which it uses to heat-up a fluid, this fluid circulates through the solar panel and then through some pipes into a heat exchanger within your the hot water cylinder, the solar heat is then transferred to the water inside your hot water cylinder.
Solar energy technology has evolved...
Evacuated solar tubes
'High quality' evacuated tubes collectors for the UK climate
Our water heating evacuated solar tubes are made in Switzerland. These premium solar heating solar tubes, use solar radiation (a true green energy source) to heat water and heating swimming pools.
Evacuated solar tubes can be mounted on a southerly roof, on the ground or on a south facing wall too.
Flat plate solar panels
'High quality' glazed flat solar collectors for the UK climate
Our solar heating flat solar panels are made in Switzerland. These premium solar heating glazed flat plate collectors, use green energy from solar radiation to heat your water for washing, bathing, or heating swimming pools using true green energy.
Flat plate solar panels can be mounted on your roof, in your roof, on a Flat Roof, on the ground, on a wall.
PV electric solar panels
A feed-in tariff will pay you to generate your own power
Sell your surplus solar power back to the National Grid and generate your own green energy. PV electric solar panels are known as photovoltaic solar panels work even on cloudy days. PV solar panel systems can produce from 1-5 Kw peak output for domestic installations.
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