Why You Need To Install A Solar Hot Water System In Your Home

Aug 19, 2022
Why You Need To Install A Solar Hot Water System In Your Home

Running hot water is an essential household resource. In fact, in Australia, it accounts for up to 30% of the energy usage of a standard household. Due to the importance of hot water in homes, it's essential to come up with sustainable systems that can help lower residential energy consumption.


This is where the idea of solar hot water was born. Over the years, solar energy has become an ideal solution for homes because it is a renewable energy source. Through technological innovations, this concept has now been applied to hot water systems.

How It Works

Like similar solutions, a solar hot water system relies on sunlight as its primary power source. WISELIVING solar systems and stainless steel tanks provide homes with sustainable hot water solutions through its Evacuated Tube Solar Collectors. This system works by allowing sunlight to pass through the toughened Borosilicate glass outer layer of the tube and into the coated inner glass layer.


These two glass layers are separated by a vacuum that traps the heat inside the tube, which is then transferred to the heat exchanger through the aluminium plate and high-performance copper heat pipe. This component contains a small amount of liquid that boils at a much lower temperature.


The heated liquid then travels through the heat pipe, where it transfers heat to the manifold. Using an energy-efficient pump, the water from the home's water supply passes through the heated manifold. The unused hot water then returns to the WISELIVING Stainless Steel Tank, where it is stored for later use.


Additional pipes can be used to connect the tank to the home's domestic hot water and heating systems to provide comfortable heat and hot water to various areas of the house.

Benefits Of Solar Hot Water

Benefits of Solar Hot water


Using this type of system provides homeowners with various benefits. One of these, and probably the most significant one, is its energy efficiency. Due to the amount of hot water used by standard homes, switching to solar hot water can reduce hot water energy costs by around 80%.


Aside from savings from energy bills, installing a sustainable hot water solution can also drastically reduce a home's carbon footprint, making it more environmentally friendly. One of the features responsible for the energy efficiency of Solar Hot Water Evacuated Solar Tubes is the cylindrical shapes of the tubes.


Unlike conventional flat panels, the round surface of the tubes allows them to track the sun and collect sunlight at different times of the day. This feature maximises the sun exposure of the collectors. Also, the double-walled vacuum design of the tubes minimises heat loss.


These are just some of the main benefits that you can enjoy from installing WISELIVING's solar hot water in your home. 

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