The "average" Florida home can save 18% on their electric bill by converting from electricity to clean solar energy to heat their water and never be without free hot water again!

The basic principles of solar thermal are easy to grasp: Unroll a garden hose and lay it out in the sun. After a while the water in the hose will get hot. Thermal collectors work on the same principle, only much more efficiently. A special fluid is heated within a closed circuit to a temperature of up to 430 degrees Fahrenheit and pumped into a heat exchanger to transfer the heat without mixing fluids. This heat is then "stored" in a domestic hot water tank. Some solar thermal systems are used to merely heat a home's domestic hot water, while others are used for heating or even to heat swimming pool water.

Heat will still be generated even when the sun is obscured by clouds. Even on cloudy days, thermal systems work with a large percentage of their capacity through the diffuse light they receive.