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Save money • Make money • Help the environment
PJ FIRMAN solar panels installed on to the roof, Rosslare Strand, Co Wexford.
Solar water heating for Ireland
PJ FIRMAN solar panels installed on to the roof, Rosslare Strand, Co Wexford.
Save money
Reduce your hot water bills
FREE your home or business from rising fuel prices.

In a typical home, water heating accounts for around 30% of your fuel bill each year; and this is set to rise as fuel supplies dwindle and demand increases.

Renewable energies such as solar water heating are a viable alternative to paying more and more for fuels of which can only increase in price.

Solar water heating panels work by converting the Sun's light into useable thermal energy. By using the free energy of the sun, your home will use less and less fossil fuels for water heating. The inevitable rise of fuel prices, inflation and taxes will only increase the value of your savings you will make each year from your solar water heating.

Make money
Return on investment
Beat interest rates and add value to your property.

A high quality solar heating system can add value to your property, similar to that of a well installed central heating system. Although there are no hard facts, it has been well documented that high quality, aesthetically please solar panels can add their value to the property.

The value of your savings will also increase each year as inflation and fuel prices rise. If you have purachased a high quality system then your savings will carry far into the future, providing massive cumulative savings over the lifetime of your solar panels.

It is important however, to purchase a high performance, long life system. Payback can take between 6 and 10 years, so owning a solar system that will perform beyond this lifetime is crucial to maximum return on investment.

Property developers should especially be interested in using solar water heating for added value, providing safe, clean energy and a financial payback to attract buyers to their developments.

Help the environment
Reduce your home's harmful carbon emissions
Fight climate change

Your home produces tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions each year by burning fossil fuels or by using electricity to provide your water heating. By using solar panels to heat your water instead of fossil fuels you will contributing a massive effort to help the environment and future of the planet.

Fighting climate change is a global effort, and Governments must create incentives for us to do our part. Until there is such incentives as tax breaks, a high quality solar water heating system should be considered as a cost effective method for us all to do our part.



Why choose solar water heating?
Here you will find the most popular reasons for choosing a solar panel system, from a buyer's perspective.

All we assume here is that the buyer is interested in a high quality solar system to save both money and help the environment.

t. 053 914 3018
PJ FIRMAN & Co Ltd,
Plumbing & Heating Engineers
Latimerstown
Wexford
Ireland

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