Solar water heating – a way to cut your energy bills and reduce carbon emissions. Whilst the best way to cut carbon usage and save on our energy bills is to insulate our houses – what can we do next? Well, in Wenhaston one of the answers was to install solar water heating which has meant that some of us have spent the summer luxuriating in hot water showers courtesy of solar power having switched off the immersion heater for at least several weeks!

How did this happen?
WESG had carried out a village carbon audit, which recommended a number of ways to cut carbon. Solar water heating was mentioned but although government grants are available – it still seemed quite expensive. So we set about running a tendering exercise with help from Suffolk Energy Action Link and invited firms to bid for our village project. The result was that Solarworks won the contract not only reducing the price (in one instance by at least £1500) but providing us with a source of help and advice as part of their after sales service.
So far we have 13 households involved with more expected.

If you would like to find out more about how it works, then look at www.solarworks.co.uk/questions-and-answers for some useful information.

You can talk to Solarworks on 0800 781 4004 or feel free to email WESG on info@wenhastongreen.org