Friday, October 21, 2011

Flower Mound Heating- Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal Will Help Cut Electricity Prices

By Shelby Maddux


Although not widely used in Britain, solar energy is a great way to reduce the cost of electricity in your home electricity bill and help reduce the impact of your carbon footprint.

Solar energy has two very different forms: solar thermal and photovoltaic (PV) generate electricity. The first is to provide continuous hot water at home, while the second can be used to provide electricity to appliances.

Solar water heaters are the most common of the two systems, especially in the UK, but throughout northern Europe. The solar thermal technology has been in operation since the 1920's, but as time has passed, so the technology has improved to solar thermal systems more efficient and less costly.

Thermal system can provide up to 85 percent of hot water, no electricity or gas to rely on maintaining high temperatures in the house. Passive or compact thermal heating systems work off a single platform for the spa water tank provides a constant supply of hot water for a family home. Active or pumped to the heat are more complex but more effective than passive systems, because it circulates the hot water, and where you need the whole house.

Thermal heating systems can also be used for heating and underfloor heating, which can help reduce the price of electricity in heating bills by up to 25 percent. Although the thermal heating is very useful to save money on high electricity prices, the actual savings you can make use of photovoltaic systems.

Photovoltaic cells produce electricity from solar energy is converted directly to energy savings of around 30 percent. Although solar cells are expensive, energy production, when set is totally free and a single cell can take any of 25-30 years.

A PV system can easily give reasonable quarter of the power to run a family home, further reducing electricity prices and the burden on fossil fuels. Last year there were only 6 MW of photovoltaic solar cells installed in the UK, while Germany installed 1,500 MW last year's solar panels. Not only help reduce the price of PV electricity in England, if they used more expansive, in 2050, they could reduce carbon emissions by 15 percent.




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