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Solar energy is now recognised as the most cost-effective way to reduce CO2
emissions. It offers a silent, pollution free, environmentally free option for use in
swimming pools. The Government is now expected to step up it’s commitment
to solar power which could over the next few years impact dramatically on the
specialist pool trade. We look at how that development might happen
The solar alternative
- THE FACTS
Prices for a single panel installation
can be as low as £4,000 to heat a
pool
Solar generated automatic and
solar pool heaters are now finding
their way on to the UK market
Generally for domestic solar panels
you do not need planning permission
Solar energy can cut your heating
bills by three quarters
There are six funding rounds for
grants available to public bodies to
opt for solar conversion
Local authority swimming pools will
continue to set the pace when it
comes to solar conversion
Increasingly companies will be held
to a carbon footprint ‘audit’ and
nothing will reduce it as much as
the solar alternative
energy its use in homes and leisure
facilities was a significant area.
“The Government wants to be able to
significantly increase its renewable energy
loans to the public and local authorities to
take the solar energy option. Further
investment in technology will see systems
become more efficient and more
available. In a few years time it will the
norm for solar energy to be fitted – not
the exception.
“It will be the intention to increase the
t’s feasible that within 10 years no technological terms, pricing, popularity funding available for smaller homes and
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swimming pool will be built without and general availability. organisations to invest in solar technology
some use of solar power to heat and “The Government’s view is well stated and it makes sense for the Government to
maintain it. that solar energy is going to be do everything it can to encourage its use
The Government’s commitment to increasingly influential for the UK’s as an excepted option.”
renewable energy systems has increased in energy resources. There are few if any It’s certain that the specialist trade’s
recent months and it has now placed solar negatives about solar energy. interest in all things solar is already starting
power at the front of the queue as it Increasingly there’s public recognition to develop. Products such as the
develops emerging innovative energy that it is a very efficient and non ‘Gulfstream’ solar pool heating system,
efficiency. contentious energy option,” a spokesman manufactured by Waterco of Australia and
Defra, the Department of Energy, Food told Swimming Pool News. distributed by Golden Coast is now on the
and Rural Affairs makes no secret that it He said while it was difficult to be market as is Certikin’s X-Flow Solar
expects solar energy to develop in specific about the applications of solar Heating Kit.
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