Welcome to our Vision Of
Protecting the Climate

Hot water is a basic human necessity, an aid to cleaning and essential to our bodily comfort.

Simply put-most forms of human-habitable living space require hot water.

It is also a core necessity for many commercial activities from hospitals and medical clinics, agriculture and animal husbandry applications, laundries and recreational water areas to specialized industrial and research processes.

With solar water heating, we simply use the natural heat from the sun to warm water, avoiding fossil fuel and other expensive energy use.

No wonder the World Resources Institute describes solar water heating as, “perhaps the simplest and most efficient form of green power available today”.

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Cleaning the Air, One
Greenhouse Gas at a Time

Source: Green Markets International

Compared to fossil fuel-based heaters,
Solar water heaters don’t just reduce CO2, they reduce many other ambiant air pollutants: nitrogen, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds and other particulates.

Small Numbers,

Large Environmental Returns

Source: SEIA 2007, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Unfortunately, the existing base of solar water heating installations in the U.S. comprises less than 2% of all buildings. Despite this, solar water heating today reduces annual CO2 emissions by about 50 to 75 metric tons.

That’s equivalent to the CO2 associated with:
- 13.7 M passenger vehicles off the road for one year.
- 8.5 Billion gallons of gas
- 174 Million barrels of oil consumed
- 16.2 coal fired plants in one year.

Worldwide Momentum

With solar water heaters still under-populated on buildings in the U.S. today, it seems hard to believe that at the turn of last century, most of California and Florida homes used solar water heaters.

But are solar water heaters rarely used today? Far from it. More recently, with the urgency of the worldwide energy crisis, more nations are adopting solar water heating as the preferred environmentally correct means to create hot water. These include:

In China and Israel, some 80% of housing today uses solar water heating. More recently, Germany has mandated use of solar water heating on all buildings. New Delhi, India, has mandated it on all new construction.