Tag Archives: solar hot water resources

Recently, the Free Hot Water blog discussed the lack of solar thermal installers in California that are eligible to collect the CSI Thermal rebate. If you missed that post, read it here.  That lack of solar thermal installers is a … Continue reading →

Free Hot Water is increasingly becoming known for our quality lines of solar collectors, tanks, and pump stations, and OG-300 systems. That’s the bread and butter of installing solar thermal, and we know that. Yet, there are little parts, tools, … Continue reading →

Progress Energy, a Raleigh, NC-based utility, has completed a previously announced study showing that its residential customers could save $235 a year, or 63% of the water heating portion of their electric bill. The utility also offers commercial solar thermal … Continue reading →

We’ve written about Eneref Institute’s solar hot water advocacy and information initiatives before. Recently, the organization announced that it is moving into the second phase of its “Solar Thermal Advantage” initiative, which is designed to promote the benefits of solar … Continue reading →

We’d like to think that the Free Hot Water Blog and our various online solar calculators are the only resource on the web for solar installers. Of course, that’s not the case at all. Thankfully, for our industry, there are … Continue reading →

Free Hot Water has been on Twitter for over a year now, and we’ve certainly benefited from connecting and developing relationships with other solar thermal installers and plumbers and green contractors. Not only have we found new solar installer customers, … Continue reading →

  For anyone who’s read the Free Hot Water blog regularly, you know we don’t just try to “sell, sell, sell” to you.  Instead, this blog always tries to offer you, our solar installer partners and distributors, useful information that … Continue reading →

As a national solar hot water company, the staff here at Free Hot Water reads many solar and renewable energy news sites. But to get our full daily buzz of solar info on the road, we were pressing tiny iPhone … Continue reading →

It’s a new year… and a new opportunity to take advantage of the 30% federal tax credit for solar thermal and solar PV systems. Below are PDF links to the two 2010 IRS forms used to apply for the 30% … Continue reading →

SEIA (The Solar Energy Industry Association, of which Free Hot Water is a member) recently released its third quarter 2010 Solar Market Report for the industry.  Unfortunately for the solar hot water industry, the trends are pointing downward for the … Continue reading →