Solar Hot Water:

Heat Your Water with Sunlight

If you’ve grown cool on the idea of wasting energy and money on hot water, why not heat your water the natural way – with a solar thermal system from Solar Wind & Rain?

Solar thermal technology dates back to 1767, when a Swiss inventor, Horace de Saussure, captured the sun’s energy in a glass "hot box" that could heat to 228 degrees Fahrenheit in a matter of hours. In 1891, Baltimore entrepreneur Clarence Kemp became the first man to patent a solar thermal system, and by 1897 a third of the homes in Pasadena, California had water heated by the sun. In 1909 William Bailey patented a solar water heating system that could heat a large storage tank of water within the home. By 1918, Bailey had sold over 4,000 of his Day and Night Solar Hot Water Heaters.

What happened to end this early boom? Cheap energy. The discovery of natural gas in California killed the solar thermal industry there in the 1920s, while declining electricity rates later ended it in Florida, where over half of all homes had used the technology before World War II.

Today, rising oil and electricity costs have brought solar thermal back with a vengeance across the U.S. When we install a solar thermal system in your home, FREE sunlight keeps your water heated to 15-200 degrees Fahrenheit, slashing water heating costs and reducing electric bills up to 30%.

A solar thermal water heater system from Solar Wind & Rain can easily save you $1,000 per year, depending on where you live. Contact us today and let’s talk about it!