Solar Thermal
A Sun Harvester Solar Panel System is designed to save you money and help the environment by converting the natural sunlight that hits the solar panels into heat in your hot water cylinder.
The solar water heating system will work alongside your boiler (or alternative heating source) to provide you with free, clean energy to heat a significant amount of your total hot water requirements throughout the year.
The Sun Harvester Solar Panel System is supplied and installed with all the components needed for a complete solar water heating system, including solar hot water cylinders, controllers, system connections and hydraulic accessories.
The Benefits
The key benefits of a Sun Harvester Solar Panel water heating system are as follows:
- Hot water throughout the year. The solar system works all year round, and can be expected to provide most of your hot water between April and September. Solar heated water will also be provided throughout the winter months although you will need to use your boiler (or alternative heating source) more during this period;
- Cut your water heating bills. Sunlight is free, so once the system is installed you can expect to see reductions in your water heating bills over the course of the year;
- Cut your carbon footprint. Solar water heating is a green, renewable heating system and will help you to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions from your home.
The Sun Harvester Solar Panel System
Sun Harvester Solar Systems are not tied to any one manufacturer and are therefore 
able to offer our customers the most effective and appropriate technology for their needs.
We keep up-to-date with the ever-expanding range of products and technologies available throughout the world; as one technology supercedes another so our product range changes accordingly. Amongst other things, we make sure that the products we specify are value for money, fully accredited, meet all relevant safety and building standards, have suitable warranty cover and that the manufacturer is a viable and reliable business.
Our current recomendation for non-commercial systems are based on flat plate collectors (or panels) which have been manufactured in South Wales since 1981 by Filsol Ltd. Based on a high efficiency stainless steel absorber plate, the collector is widely regarded as one of the most effective, reliable and long lasting solar panels available.
Key features of the solar panel collector are as follows:
- Stylish modular design with high energy conversion efficiency;
- Highly durable to provide long life expectancy in UK climate;
- Proven technology with over 29 years’ successful use;
- Available in range of sizes to facilitate optimal system design;
- Available for ‘on-roof’, ‘in-roof’ and ‘frame-mounted’ installation;
- 10 year warranty as standard (expected lifetime >25 years).
The solar collectors are tested to BS EN 12975 and are fully accredited under the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS). Proven Performance.
Based on the evidence of independent Government tests, these solar panels have been proven to provide an average output of approximately 860kWh per m² of collector per year (Gross). A properly designed system can be expected to provide around 60%-70% of a household’s annual hot water requirement, and 100% of the hot water requirement through the summer months.
The chart above shows the contribution made by a Sun Harvester Solar Panel system in meeting the overall hot water energy requirement of a house in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, in an independent Government-commissioned field test. The chart shows that the solar system provided a monthly average of 76% of the household’s hot water requirement, providing almost all of the hot water requirements between April and October.
