When Americans think of solar thermal, they mainly think of heating hot water for swimming pools, apartment buildings, hotels/motels, and residential homes. However, there are many industrial applications for solar thermal energy, especially for food processing. Free Hot Water recently … Continue reading
When people think of solar thermal systems, they often think of hot, sunny climates like California and Arizona. But the truth is that solar thermal works in cold climates too—including Massachusetts, where commercial businesses like hotels and motels can receive … Continue reading
On a recent winter trip to New York City, I was eager to find images of solar thermal and to seeing many of the city’s apartment building rooftops taking advantage of solar hot water. Solar thermal applications in New York … Continue reading
The slow growth in solar thermal in the United States compared to solar PV is not due to solar hot water technology, but to three core challenges The lack of public awareness and education about solar hot water The lack … Continue reading
New York, NY, a heck of a state for solar hot water, especially if you want to replace your electric water heater with a solar thermal system. Electric water heaters are inefficient and costly compared to heating water with natural … Continue reading
What’s better than Milwaukee craft brewed beer? How about craft brewed beer engineered with clean solar hot water. Milwaukee Brewing Company announced today the installation of a solar hot water system at its brewing facility. The solar thermal project will … Continue reading
By Aaron Block Through renewable energy incentives and renewable portfolio standards (RPS), our state governments should be encouraging desirable results – less pollution, energy independence, and job creation – not betting on specific technologies. Solar is ideal for accomplishing all … Continue reading
At Free Hot Water, we’re always thinking of ways to engineer things to be simple and to work, especially solar water heating. Sadly, engineering the perfect Thanksgiving dinner is not something we can do with CAD software or calculators, though … Continue reading
by Chris Williams We can use simple, effective, and proven policies that have been used to supercharge the New England solar PV industry to incentivize renewable thermal technologies and eliminate oil use for single family homes. Here’s the best part, … Continue reading
Learn about new California solar hot water incentives, and becoming a Certified Free Hot Water Installer at this info session for consumers and installers. Residential solar hot water rebates in California have recently gone up by 45%, making this the … Continue reading
