Low Impact

One of the best ways to reduce your household environmental impact is to replace your electric hot water system. Your hot water system can account for almost a third of your household greenhouse gas emissions. And its easy not to notice - it doesn’t have a noisy fan like a heater, or flashing lights like a sound system. It sits in a cupboard, or outside, silently burning away those kilowatts.

The best replacement is solar hot water. It doesn’t get much more efficient than using the heat of the sun to heat your water! And nowadays, there’s a host of different systems - storage tank on the roof, storage tank on the ground, frost-hardy, electric boosted, gas boosted. You name it, they’ve got… Continue reading