Solar swimming pool heaters are among the most cost-effective uses of solar energy today. Our Florida sun is free and the supply is abundant. Eliminating the expense of natural gas, propane or electricity and replacing it with free solar energy gives you significant utility savings for as long as you are in your home. Saving money while saving the environment is win-win!
Solar swimming pool heaters make sense – and the cents add up quickly – in Florida.
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Top five reasons you get a substantial return on your investment
- You begin saving money immediately after installation
- Those annual savings add up year by year
- Most solar swimming pool heaters pay back the initial cost in 1.5 to 6 years (depending on your current utility bill). This is not our hype: it’s a fact from the US Department of Energy.
- So, you get your money back in a few years, and after that your pool heating is virtually free
- You can claim federal tax credits and state of Florida rebates to further cut upfront costs
There is one additional return on investment. Consider what you invested in your pool. Yet, without solar swimming pool heaters, homeowners can’t use their pools in winter months, or early spring and late fall. In Northern California a 6 to 8 month swimming season might make sense. But this is Florida! To get your money’s worth out of your pool, you want to use it all year around, for swimming laps, relieving stress and just getting out in the sun and fresh air. Even if the air is cool, the water is invitingly warm.
- Don’t confuse modern solar panel collectors with what you have seen in the past. Today they lie flush with the roof and are available in colors that can match your roof. Many homeowners like the look of black. The engineering is remarkably streamlined now.
Here is how leading edge solar swimming pool heaters work:
Solar collectors on the roof continually hoard the heat of the sun. On the ground, a small pump pulls cold water out of the pool. It goes through a filter, and then the clean water is sent through tubes in the collectors, where it heats up. The warm, clean water is pumped back into your pool. There is a bottomless supply of solar energy, unlike rapidly depleting supplies of fossil fuels. It’s free, and abundant in our climate. Plus, solar swimming pool heaters work when the sun is covered by clouds. The rays of the sun don’t go away; they go through the cloud cover to be collected by the rooftop panels.
Consider this financial incentive: gas heaters generally need to be replaced every 5 to 7 years. Solar panels can last 15 to 20 years. In Florida, it is against the law for a condominium association or homeowners association to ban the use of solar systems, ban them on roofs, or require that they be disguised.
Consider the environmental incentive: solar swimming pool heaters do not pollute. They reduce demand for electricity, which cuts carbon emissions from power plants. No trucks burn gas to bring propane to your house. The net effect is that you are saving more oil in a year than if you pulled your car off the road.
Consider the comfort incentive: Solar power allows you to swim in a pool that was previously too expensive to heat and too frigid to use.
Homeowners who switched to solar swimming pool heaters are glad they did!
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