Solar water heater is a cost-effective way to generate hot water for your home/Industry/Hospital and other places. They can be used in any climate, and the fuel they use is the sunshine which is free of cost and can be used unlimited.
Advantages of Solar Water Heater over Electric Water Heater
- It costs absolutely nothing to heat water since freely available sun rays are used for that purpose. whereas using the electric heater, You have to pay monthly electricity bill because you will be using the electricity with is being generated by the government.
- Since no fossil fuels are burnt, this translates into zero greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, using solar water heaters helps combat global warming as well as other kinds of pollution problems. whereas using an electric heater, Your carbon footprint keeps on growing bigger with increasing global warming and other kinds of pollution and health problems.
- Because the Solar Water Heater has essentially no moving parts, it will not break down easily and can last for 10 – 30 years.whereas daily usage if electric heaters will result in overheating of coil and should be replaced now and then which may cost you on maintenance.
- Therefore, the upfront cost of the Solar Water Heater is more than recovered over its lifetime.where as using an electric heater, There is no way you can recover the cost, and moreover you have to spend extra cost to replace defective parts.
A 100-liter per day water heater can save yearly electricity units in various parts of India as per the table mentioned below:
