Solar Thermal brochure(PDF)
Solar Thermal Solar Panels
A solar water heating system collects heat from the sun and uses it to help heat your water.
It can provide hot water for taps, showers, baths and swimming pools. It can provide 100% of your summer requirements and 60% to 70% annually.
A solar thermal system can also be used to supplement your space heating requirements.
Systems can be installed in new build houses and existing homes and will be tailored to your families' needs.
Service provided
CareyGlass Solar is a one stop shop. We can supply, fit and commission solar thermal systems in just one day. CareyGlass Solar specialises in designing unique design solutions for both domestic and commercial projects.
We evaluate plans, carry out on site inspections and design fully guaranteed solar thermal systems. We supply, fit and service these systems which are customised to your specific needs.
CareyGlass Solar has an established network of plumbers, installers and engineers experienced in installing solar water heating systems. All installers follow a code of practice ensuring our high standards of service are delivered. Additionally, quality assurance checks on installations are made regularly.
Flat Plate Collector Solar Panel
Our flat plate collectors are certified for their efficiency, durability and ease of handling.
Evacuated Tube Collector Solar Panel
Our Solar Thermal evacuated tubes are ideal for supplying domestic hot water.
Benefits of Solar Thermal Solar Panels
Your solar thermal system will produce 60-70% of hot water requirements, even on a cloudy day, lowering your usage of oil, gas or electricity and negating the CO2 these fuels create.
- Suitable for all homes
- Simple and reliable technology
- Dramatic reduction in energy costs for hot water
- Reduces your dependency on depleting natural resources
- Increases the value your property
- Life expectancy of panels is 25 years
- SEI registered product
- Aesthetically pleasing
- Your choice of collector ( Integrated in the roof/roof mounted/ground mounted)
- Maintenance Free
Flat Plate Solar Thermal panels installed on a house
Evacuated Tube Collector Solar Thermal panels installed on a house
Evacuated Tube Collector Solar Thermal panels installed on a house
Get a quote
For a complementary quote for a solar energy project, send your plans to us
Talk to us
Lo call: 1890 252 412
How Solar Thermal works
Our high performance solar panels represent the heart of the solar thermal transfer system; they convert incident sunlight/solar energy into heat. Thanks to their clear, high transparency, low-iron glass, our panels achieve a high degree of heat transmission.
The heat is generated through the absorption of the sun's rays by a dark colour coated absorber sheet of the panels. When there is sufficient daylight a pump kicks in and frost protected, non-toxic solar fluid circulates through the system/pipe work.
The heat transfer fluid in the piping system absorbs the heat and is pumped to the hot water tank, where the heat is transferred to the surrounding water in the tank by a heat exchanger. It is this water in the cylinder that is then used for your showers, sinks and central heating.
Heat can still be generated even when the sun is obscured by cloud. Even on cloudy days, thermal systems can still work to a large percentage of their capacity through the diffuse light they receive. Your existing method for heating water (e.g. gas-fired boiler or electric immersion/all boilers are compatible with our solar system) acts as a backup for when there is insufficient sunlight.
The system works automatically. In summer, almost all hot water needs are met by the solar system, the rest of the year it pre-heats the water so your boiler only tops up to the required temperature. Please note that in the winter the system will only function when the cylinder temperature is lower than the panel temperature thus avoiding a cooling effect on the cylinder.
Solar Thermal Flat Plate Collectors
Solar Thermal Evacuated Tube Collectors
Download Solar Thermal brochure(PDF)
NewScientist’s January 28 issue is likely to unsettle clean energy advocates — but it is worth the read.
The cover article, “Power paradox: Clean might not be green forever,” posits that even renewable energy can warm the planet, and eventually change climate, if we continue to ratchet up power production to serve our ever
It's easy to think about modules as singular units of power output, but the reality is that they are a collection of diverse components, each with influence over the end system's total cost and performance. For DuPont, its focus is of course on the materials side, from metallization pastes used to form contacts on the solar cell, to backsheet materials that protect the panels themselves.
The Obama Administration's $60 billion Loan Guarantee Program (LGP) for renewable energy is considered a failure because of Solyndra, Beacon Power, and potential 2012 bankruptcies. What is not well known is that 75 percent of the program's deployed funds went to relatively low risk power plants that will catapult the U.S. to a leadership role in the utility-scale solar sector. This is hardly the hallmark of a "failed program." The program is akin to Shakespeare's King Henry V, who said as a delinquent Prince: "I'll so offend as to make offense a skill, redeeming time when men think least I will."
In a series of deals the investor-owned utility says is good for consumers' wallets, American Electric Power subsidiary Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) recently signed long-term power purchase agreements for a total of 358.65 MW of capacity from wind projects in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
Miasolé says it has created a 17.3 percent "champion" thin-film copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) solar photovoltaic device, results obtained in its own labs and not (yet) independently verified.
Today the Obama administration moved forward with plans to develop the enormous offshore wind energy resources along the Mid-Atlantic coast, using a "Smart for the Start" approach designed to expedite the siting process while incorporating strong environmental protections.
By late February the renewable energy industry should have direction from the Ontario government on some of the major changes ahead for the province’s landmark feed-in tariff program. “I am hoping we will have an announcement then with the megawatt (MW) targets and pricing, then new rules and contracts in March, and application processi
You may have heard it before, but it is worth mentioning again: In residential communities, solar is contagious. But a recent study, "Peer Effects in the Diffusion of Solar Photovoltaic Panels," conducted by Bryan Bollinger of the NYU Stern School of Business and Kenneth Gillingham of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, published in December sheds some new light on the phenomenon.
Renewable energy in the United States is at a crossroads. With several federal tax grants set to expire by the end of 2012, utilities are trying to decide if the falling prices of solar and wind technology makes renewable energy competitive enough to invest in despite vanishing federal aid.
Wind energy is becoming one of the most widely used sources of renewable energy. In fact, according to the American Wind Energy Association, the wind energy industry has added more than 35 percent of all the new power generating capacity since 2007. As the industry grows in popularity, new developers continue to enter the market, and existing developers may likely expand their investments in wind farms.
Two reports out in the past week examine Europe's solar PV market in 2011, indicating slowing growth in the flagship countries and promise in some smaller regions for 2012 and beyond. Note that the data that follows is preliminary; final 2011 numbers won't be known until later in the first quarter, including some likely revisions thanks to a stronger-than-expected fourth quarter in several key regions (more on that below).
A recent report has generated lots of buzz by finding that as many as 50,000 jobs could be lost over the next three years if a 100 percent tariff is placed on Chinese solar panels. Yet from where I'm sitting, I see a far different number from the same report: The industry could add 15,000 jobs by 2014.
Twenty years ago, international leaders descended on Brazil to lay the groundwork for what would eventually become the Kyoto Protocol. This summer, a 20-member United Nations panel will once again head to Rio de Janeiro with an even more ambitious agenda.
Due to growing urbanization and resulting environmental threats, China has invested nearly US$50 billion annually into its renewable energy sector since 2009. China's five-year investment in environmental protection is on track to reach 3.1 trillion yuan (US$454 billion). By 2015, its environmental protection industry is expected to top 2 trillion yuan (US$317 billion).
Nine years from now, in early 2022, the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard will have reached its intended target, 36 billion gallons of biofuel blended into the U.S. domestic auto and truck fuel supply.
Concentrated photovoltaics (CPV) is an upcoming renewable market that promises to provide cost-effective power generation at high levels of efficiency. The performance of a CPV system is dependant on the direct normal irradiance (DNI). Because of this major performance parameter, the number of regions ideal for CPV system installations is limited. According to Prof. Humayun Mughal, the potential market destinations based on DNI for the CPV technology are Southwest US, Mexico, Chile, Southern Peru, Southwest Bolivia, Northwest Argentina, and Mediterranean countries, Australia, North Africa, Middle East, Western India and Western China.
With developers having made their final end-of-year push through the last day of December, the January ritual of announcements concerning new projects entering commercial operation and new PPAs kicking in continued this week.
Earlier this month, I attended EUCI’s Utilizing Clean Power Development Conference in Philadelphia. The conference attracted a variety of large institutions (hospitals, municipalities, universities, etc.), developers, and financers to discuss the opportunity and challenges surrounding deployment of on-site renewable energy. Instit
North America is at an inflection point in managing organic materials. Just as paper, metal and plastics were the darlings of the recycling industry a couple decades ago, our society is defining a new relationship with organic materials: one that harnesses the full carbon, energy and nutrient potential of organics. In order to help shape that new relationship, industry leaders are cultivating North America's awareness and understanding of anaerobic digestion's features, benefits and potential role in society.