Any type of home or business can be converted into one that uses solar energy in order to create electricity.  Even if you don’t collect enough sunlight for all of your electricity, you can collect enough to significantly reduce what you use and in turn be more energy efficient.

Solar Panels can be fitted on a suitable roof (preferably South facing) and these are connected to a coil inside a special hot water storage cylinder which heats the domestic hot water from the solar heat.  A second heating coil in the cylinder is connected to the normal central heating boiler and a sophisticated control system only brings the boiler into to play when insufficient heat is being generated from the solar panels.

Heat is generated by the solar panels all-year-round, obviously more is generated in summer when the sun is warmer and there are longer hours of daylight, but the solar heating system still works even when the sun is behind clouds and the solar panels can supply around 70 – 80% of a typical household’s hot water demand over a year, possibly saving up to £150 per annum in fuel bills.