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Video: A Building Developer and a Restaurant Owner Discuss Benefits of Solar Thermal

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  Last month at Solar Power International 2013, Doug Stingle, Development Director of the Midwest Renewable Energy Association, sat down with representatives of two Chicago area businesses that have benefited from solar hot water. His first guest, Michael Burton, is … Continue reading

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6 Videos to Engineer a Quick and Easy Thanksgiving Dinner

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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

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Come to a Special Event this Wednesday, Nov. 14th in Los Altos Hills

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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

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Eneref Initiative Is Getting More Solar Thermal into the Media

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Solar thermal advocacy organization, Eneref Institute, has begun to compile solar thermal case studies that are finding their way into the trade publications that serve various solar thermal applications. When it comes to media attention, solar thermal is often referred … Continue reading

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The CSI Thermal Program: Cloudy with a Growing Chance of Solar Hot Water

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Update: A few weeks after writing this post California’s Public Utility Commission (CPUC) did raise the rebate rates for its CSI Thermal program.  Despite a huge pot of incentive dollars available for commercial and residential solar hot water, California’s entire … Continue reading

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A Review of Arizona’s Generous Utility and State Subsidies for Solar Hot Water

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Free Hot Water often highlights California’s generous subsidies for solar hot water installations, but it’s not the only state committed to solar water heating. Arizona’s utilities all offer different—but valuable—solar hot water incentives for both residential and commercial installations. Of … Continue reading

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Little Products and Tools Mean A Lot When Installing Solar Hot Water

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Free Hot Water is increasingly becoming known for our quality lines of solar collectors, tanks, and pump stations, and OG-300 systems. That’s the bread and butter of installing solar thermal, and we know that. Yet, there are little parts, tools, … Continue reading

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California Launches Solar Hot Water Public Awareness Campaign

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When California funded the CSI Solar Thermal program in 2010, part of the funding included a carve-out for marketing the program and educating the public about solar hot water’s benefits to consumers and businesses. That public awareness program is finally … Continue reading

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Amazing: Only 374 CSI Thermal Eligible Solar Hot Water Installers in California

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The lack of competition for solar water heating services in California is startling. Despite the rich solar thermal rebates that are available in California—and other states—there are few installers who can legally use them and collect the rebates. In fact, … Continue reading

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Our Made-in-USA 8000 Series Solar Collector Receives FSEC Certification

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We’re proud to announce that we’ve received Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) approval for our made-in-America 8000 series solar hot water collector. As Florida solar thermal installers and plumbers know, all collectors sold or manufactured in Florida must be certified … Continue reading

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