{"id":711,"date":"2008-12-22T20:50:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T03:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/?p=711"},"modified":"2012-02-15T20:55:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T03:55:09","slug":"save-big-with-solar-water-heating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/save-big-with-solar-water-heating\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Big With Solar Water Heating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solardirect.com\/swh\/swh.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Solar water heating<\/a> systems use clean, free energy from the sun to heat your hot water, which accounts for about 15 to 20% of your home\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s energy. <\/p>\n<p>Renewable energy systems do have an up-front installation cost of $3,000 to $,6000 but you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll enjoy an instant reduction on your utility bills. Keep in mind that these systems are not designed to provide 100% of your home\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s water requirements because of the amount of cloudy days in a year. <\/p>\n<p>You can expect them to meet between 50 to 75% of your hot water needs, so having a backup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/articles\/hot-water-systems.asp\">water heater<\/a> is a necessity.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\">Tax credits<\/a> are available for qualified solar water heating and photovoltaic systems. <\/p>\n<p>The credits are available for systems placed in service from January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2016. The tax credit is for 30% of the cost of the system, up to $2,000. After December 31, 2008, this $2,000 cap will be removed for photovoltaic systems (but not solar water heaters). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar water heating systems use clean, free energy from the sun to heat your hot water, which accounts for about 15 to 20% of your home\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s energy. Renewable energy systems do have an up-front installation cost of $3,000 to $,6000 but you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll enjoy an instant reduction on your utility bills. Keep in mind that these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-houseplans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}