Solar energy is the key to decreased CO
2 consumption in our homes.
By making renewable energy an integral part of the building, we can make the house an energy contributor instead of an energy consumer. Hot water can be produced by solar energy collected through solar panels – and new technologies are emerging that will allow solar energy to cool buildings.
Solar collectors can provide up to 70 % of the energy needed to produce domestic hot water. If solar thermal panels were installed in every home in Europe, the saving could amount to some 20,000,000 tons of oil – equivalent to taking 20 million cars off the road every single year*. The sun is the most powerful source of energy we have and we should be making maximum use of it.