Wondering which water heater is best solar or electric? Well, before we get to a definitive answer to this question, let’s introduce you to NuPower Solar Water Heating Systems.
NuPower Solar has been providing customers with solar water heating systems since 2008, continuously focused on the development of solar water heating systems designed to suit the South African market perfectly.
To date, this team of solar experts has installed 16 500 solar water heating systems throughout South Africa, and counting! With their own in-house installation teams handling their quality products, you can be assured that they’ll deal with your installation efficiently.
Superior workmanship and service excellence go hand in hand with the experience of trusting NuPower Solar with your solar water heating system, wherever you live in South Africa.
Which water heater is best solar or electric?
Let’s look at the long answer to this question here. We have to start with the excessively high electricity tariffs experienced in South Africa, since the answers lie largely in the exorbitant cost of simply heating water in your home.
Then we need to look at the reality of what happens every time load shedding arrives unannounced, leaving us in the dark and without hot water.
Now we get to the fact that it takes a lot of electricity just to heat water, and that cost is higher than anything else you have in your home that uses electricity.
In fact, merely heating water accounts for 40% and upwards of your monthly electricity bill, which, by today’s standards, makes hot water a luxury!
The element in your electrical geyser is what has you digging deeper into your pocket every month, and as mentioned before, this also means that without electricity, such as during load shedding and other power outages, you won’t have hot water.
The energy source for a solar water heater is completely free!
On the other hand, a solar water heater takes absolutely no electricity, unless you decide to use the electrical backup on particularly overcast and rainy days.
The electrical backup that comes with the installation of your solar water heater is seldom if ever needed in South Africa. This is because a solar water heating system doesn’t only rely on the abundance of direct sunlight we enjoy here, but also on irradiation from the sun.
South Africa is classified as a semi-arid region, with an average of around 2500 hours of sun per year, and taking into account that the average rainfall is around 464mm annually, as opposed to the world average of 860mm, it’s easy to see why a solar water heater is by far the better option when it comes to heating water.
Heat between 50% & 100% of your hot water from the sun!
Depending on your solar water system type and size, you could well be looking at being able to get anywhere from 50% to 100% of your hot water power requirements directly from the energy of the sun.
Though the initial outlay in a solar water heating system can be quite steep, the payback period takes only 3 to 5 years, depending on the system, after which you’ll be enjoying the sheer freedom of free hot water.
NuPower Solar Water Heating Systems lead the way to free hot water!
Not only will you be saving a real chunk of change on electricity when you change from an electrical geyser to a solar water heater, you’ll also be contributing to a greener future by not sticking to fossil fuels and gas for electricity!
Contact the team at NuPower Solar to find out more about how to make the move from electricity to solar power, especially when it comes to having piping hot water on tap, free of charge!
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