Solar Assisted Heat Pumps (SAHP)

Installing a Solar Assisted Heat Pump (SAHP), is a great way of providing your homes with hot water. It is not only cost-effective but green too! Heat pumps are the perfect low carbon heating solution, and work through thermodynamics. However, they run on electricity, which can be expensive alone. By adding Solar Panels into the equation, you can run your home’s hot water system on free renewable energy. As Solar Panels generate electricity by absorbing energy from the sun, which is a natural resource. The Solar Panels essentially produce electricity to run the Heat Pump economically, as well as providing your home green electricity too.

By Connecting a SAHP (Solar Assisted Heat Pump) with Solar PV, the water will be heated up to 60°C. Heating water up to 60°C, rather than the normal 55°C, means that up to 1.7kWh more energy is stored in your cylinder. This means your hot water cylinder can be used effectively as a boiler, as it is storing more energy.