Renewable Energy #1: Solar Pool Pump
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:53 am
With the change of the Gov's policy ( pressure of the EU) to allow private photo-voltaic installations to produce
electricity on your own roof (net-metering) there is suddenly a rush for this technology. It looks to me that since then there
is no more interest from installers to promote and sell Solar Pool Pump Systems (no more ads anymore in magazines).
I personally think there are several reasons why it is still a very good investment to install such a pump system.
Recently we had even in Winter periods of severe dust in the air mainly from the Sahara and Syria leaving everybody's Pool
in a big mess. (except Pools with Winter cover) For sure every Pool would look much cleaner if there is a Solar Pump installed,
filtering every day >10 hours the pool water, which means 2-3 times the full content, reducing chemical use and cleaning time.
People only partly living in CY can switch off complete their mains, while their pool will be still maintained by the power of the Sun.
House owners would perhaps like to install net-metering but do not have the space on their roof for at least 10 panels. There is
for sure a place somewhere to put 3-4 panels for a Pool pump. One can say a Solar pump system is a small version of net-metering
for less than 1/2 of the price while a pool pump is next to air con the biggest electric consumer of a household. It is nice to learn how
reliable PV is and how it works - not to forget your contribution to do something for the environment. No permits from EAC are necessary
unlike for net-metering. Your old pump system stays bypassed in case you want to use it in rainy conditions to hoover the pool.
If one owns already a net-metering system which is limited to max 5kWp you will enlarge legally to 6 kWp with extra 4 panels and solar pump.
So perhaps people still consider to install such a reliable Solar installation from a Paphos based company.
Max
Renewable Energy Consultant
electricity on your own roof (net-metering) there is suddenly a rush for this technology. It looks to me that since then there
is no more interest from installers to promote and sell Solar Pool Pump Systems (no more ads anymore in magazines).
I personally think there are several reasons why it is still a very good investment to install such a pump system.
Recently we had even in Winter periods of severe dust in the air mainly from the Sahara and Syria leaving everybody's Pool
in a big mess. (except Pools with Winter cover) For sure every Pool would look much cleaner if there is a Solar Pump installed,
filtering every day >10 hours the pool water, which means 2-3 times the full content, reducing chemical use and cleaning time.
People only partly living in CY can switch off complete their mains, while their pool will be still maintained by the power of the Sun.
House owners would perhaps like to install net-metering but do not have the space on their roof for at least 10 panels. There is
for sure a place somewhere to put 3-4 panels for a Pool pump. One can say a Solar pump system is a small version of net-metering
for less than 1/2 of the price while a pool pump is next to air con the biggest electric consumer of a household. It is nice to learn how
reliable PV is and how it works - not to forget your contribution to do something for the environment. No permits from EAC are necessary
unlike for net-metering. Your old pump system stays bypassed in case you want to use it in rainy conditions to hoover the pool.
If one owns already a net-metering system which is limited to max 5kWp you will enlarge legally to 6 kWp with extra 4 panels and solar pump.
So perhaps people still consider to install such a reliable Solar installation from a Paphos based company.
Max
Renewable Energy Consultant