Category Archives: Solar Rebates

At long last, it looks like it’s going to be a great year for solar thermal, especially with some exciting announcements that can potentially boost your commercial solar thermal business. We’ll have more details in the coming weeks, but here … Continue reading →

We love to give solar thermal marketing advice at Free Hot Water. We’re a manufacturer and a distributor of solar hot water equipment, so our job isn’t to sell solar thermal jobs, but to support our installers with engineering, equipment, … Continue reading →

We hate to be the bearer of solar bad news…. So, first we’ll be the bearer of solar hot water good news! In the great state of Idaho, the Questar gas utility has just launched a new residential and multifamily … Continue reading →

Dear Free Hot Water Dealers and Distributors and blog readers, It’s not too late! That is, it’s not too late to close commercial contracts that can qualify for the 1603 Treasury Grant Program (TGP) that is set to expire at … Continue reading →

In celebration of our 12 new SCRCC-approved OG-300 solar water heating systems, we decided to use Free Hot Water’s handy-dandy solar hot water cost calculator and find out which states provided the fastest payback time for residential solar water heating. … Continue reading →

Every three months or so, SEIA (Solar Energy Industry Association) and the good people at Greentech Media (GTM) Research put out a solar industry report, and that’s great. We’ve summed up some of the insights from the solar hot water … Continue reading →

  Let’s face it. Incentives help make the case for solar technologies, whether it’s solar water heating systems or solar electric. We’ve written before about the current national solar thermal incentives, but here they are again, briefly: Both residential and … Continue reading →

Which do you prefer to hear first? The good solar water heating incentive news in Maryland … or the bad solar water heating incentive news? Frankly, the bad news is much less complicated, so let’s tackle that first. The bad … Continue reading →

Just wanted to share with our solar community about the news that Free Hot Water is about to start the largest solar water heating project under California’s new solar thermal rebate program. The Tradewinds, a lage condominium complex nestled in … Continue reading →

Free Hot Water often receives questions from people just starting to enter the solar business. One question that comes up is the correct way to measure insolation. What’s insolation? It’s basically a measurement of the amount of sun that’s expected … Continue reading →