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Justin Weil Featured In SolarPro Magazine
Justin Weil, President of SunWater Solar, offers his advice on streamlining solar thermal project planning and installation in the February/March 2010 issue of SolarPro Magazine. The article also features pictures of the SunWater Solar team installing a solar thermal system.
Replacing Solar Hot Water Collectors
During the late 1970′s and early 1980′s thousands of solar water heating systems were installed all across the US. This boom was brought on by generous tax credits and the energy crisis of the 1970′s. Many solar water heating systems that were installed in this period are now needing to be replaced. Solar collectors typically [...]
San Francisco Sustainable Financing To Launch In Early 2010
San Francisco is joining the list of municipalities offering a PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) financing program. The new initiative will be called San Francisco Sustainable Financing, or SF Squared (SF2) and will allow both residential and commercial building owners to finance solar water heating systems on their property taxes over a 20 year period. [...]
Solar Water Heating To Be Funded Through Oakland Property Tax Bills
Oakland, CA is joining other municipalities to offer financing for solar water heating projects through property tax bills. This financing will be available for both commercial and residential installations and will allow property owners to pay for the solar water heating system over a 20 or 30 year period avoiding the upfront cost of the [...]
Multifamily Affordable Housing, Title 24, and Solar Water Heating
Solar Water Heating is expected to play a larger role in helping buildings exceed California’s Title 24 regulations in 2010. SunWater Solar is assisting developers exceed Title 24 standards by installing solar hot water systems on multifamily affordable housing projects around the Bay Area, including developments in Palo Alto for Bridge Housing and San Leandro [...]
Solar Water Heating For Hotels
There are a growing number of hotels across the US that are going green and doing their part to reduce their carbon footprint. One of the best ways for hotels and other places of lodging to go green is by using the renewable energy of the sun to heat their water. Because hotels typically use [...]
Solar Water Heating and Life Cycle Costing
When considering the purchase of a solar water heating system, it is important to consider Life Cycle Costing as opposed to just the simple payback of a system. Solar water heating systems are designed to last for many years and if you just look at the time it takes to recover your initial investment through [...]
CPUC Releases Its Proposed Decision On CSI-Thermal
California moved one step closer to a statewide incentive program for residential and commercial solar water heating last week with the release of Commissioner Peevey’s Proposed Decision recommending the creation of the CSI-Thermal Program by the California Public Utilities Commission. The solar water heating incentive program was mandated by law in October of 2007 when [...]
Solar Water Heating In Scientific American
A blog about Solar Water Heating on the Scientific American website helps explain solar water heating technology. It also points out near the end of the article that “some companies that used to install thermal systems, such as Borrego Solar, no longer do. Chris Anderson, Borrego’s chief technology officer, says that thermal and PV systems [...]
Renewable Funding’s PACE Program Lands Investment Funds
Renewable Funding has landed $12.2 Million in its first round of financing as it launches its PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) solar funding programs. Renewable Funding is a company that handles the administration and financing of the PACE programs that allow local municipalities to finance solar hot water systems through the property taxes of houses [...]
Making hot water from the sun...
SunWater Solar is a design/build company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in solar water heating systems. The company provides these systems for many types of commercial projects. More»
Highlights
Cogenra System at Facebook
Solar Water Heating for U.S. Marine Corps
SunWater Solar is now building 4 Heliodyne SWH systems at an east coast Marine Corps base
Storage Strategies
Current issue of SolarPro magazine, featuring Justin Weil on cover and SunWater Solar article on solar storage
Solar Cooling for Medical Center
Crow Canyon Medical Center announced a Chromasun solar cooling system built by SunWater Solar
Solar Water Heating at Kendall-Jackson Winery
Cogenra & SunWater Solar teamed up to build this 96-module system at KJ Winery
