Growing usage of solar water heaters

Posted by admin on Jan 13, 2014 in Posts

The usage of solar energy heaters has garnered huge popularity recently. These solar energy water heaters that use the sun’s energy to warm up water initiate a process in conserving energy. It is quite efficient and warms up the water at a great pace. Many homes nowadays, instead of electric water heaters prefer to use it.

Reasons for preferring a solar water heater:

Solar water heater is preferred by a large number of people because it reduces costs and helps in saving energy. It employs solar energy to get hot water quite instantly. The energy derived through the sun, is then caught by the panels embedded in the heaters, which is further shifted to the batteries that help to warm up the water. Thus, by this process, energy is renewed to be used again and again in an effective manner.

There are a lot of benefits of bringing it in use as one can install them in their homes very easily. It is not really difficult to build the water heaters too. Rather, installing the heaters is quite economical when contrasted against other water heaters. These solar heaters work by changing the solar energy for heating water; it is also eco-friendly.

These heaters are really faster, which is an advantage and is also completely free of the cost compared to the water heaters, which run electrically. Electric water heater consumes too much of power and thus, increase in its usage adds up to the electricity bills. Also, it is not possible to heat the water during power failures. But with the help of solar water heaters, there is no wastage of electricity for heating water.

As they are eco-friendly, they do not cause pollution and contributes to the cause of environment as these heaters do not use gas, coal or any other such kind of substances to heat water. It has its set of disadvantages too which are nothing when compared to its benefits. Now, it’s easily available due to the awareness of people. Secondly, a wide number of manufacturers have cropped up seeing it as a promising business and this helps in cutting down the prices.

It just requires the primary costing of installing it with no further or hidden costs for its usage. It requires some minimal equipment like a tank for storage, thermal panels to absorb heat and pipelines attached to them. It is indeed beneficial for the future generations and is a blessing in disguise due to its advanced techniques and low price.