Commercial Solar Thermal

Solar Thermal Systems

Many businesses including restaurants, hotels, professional office buildings, horse stables, laundromats and even carwash facilities have substantial gas bills in order to serve their hot water demand.  The associated cost with heating this water will just continue to grow. 

Your business needs hot water and a solar water heating system is the most economical way to heat your water.  The systems are reliable, have a long design-life, and can provide up to 60-70% energy savings.

Businesses like hotels, recreation facilities and schools that have a pool; you will get even a bigger advantage being that you get to heat your business’ water inside and your pool’s water by using the Solar Thermal technology! 

Incentives, Incentives, Incentives…

Speaking of tax breaks, Solar really has them!

The Federal Tax Credit enables a business to install a Solar Electric system and be eligible for up to a 30% federal tax credit on the installed cost of the system and could take advantage of a 5 year accelerated tax depreciation plan.

The State Rebates and Incentives are different based on system etc.  We have provided you with the most updated incentive program by looking through the Commercial Rebates & Incentives navigation to the left or by clicking here.

The Basics to Solar Thermal

Simply stated, Solar Thermal is a great way to heat water and the things that water heats!  It operates from a collector which is a box with copper piping that sits on your roof and collects heat from the sun.  It then transfers the heat to the water that runs through the piping.  This new heated water fills your storage tank, and acts as a pre-heater to your existing water heater.  The difference between heating water for in-home use verse heating your pool water is that the newly heated water coming from your piping will actually flow directly into your pool.  It’s kinda like filling up multiple hundreds if not thousands of pitchers of hot water and dumping it into your pool.  Kinda!

The two main types of solar water heating systems are Active and Passive systems.  The Active systems contain pumps and controls to regulate the flow and production of the hot water while the Passive systems actually operate without the use of pumps.

We will design the perfect solar thermal systems for your business!

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