Purpose

To save electricity especially during peak hours by switching water heating in households and institutions from electricity to solar water heating

Main Activities

• Create awareness about the benefits of solar water heaters among city planning authorities, Ministry of Housing, professional bodies of architects and engineering professionals, and the general public;
• Establish appropriate financing mechanisms for manufacturers, vendor companies and consumers;
• Develop policies to promote solar water heaters;
• Establish standards and guidelines for integrating solar water heaters in buildings;
• Establish by law and regulations for integration of solar water heating systems in new and renovated buildings
• Train 20 engineers and technicians to develop local capacity to install and maintain solar water heating systems
• Prepare an investment plan to finance replication and scale up of solar water heater use.
• Save 1 MW of electricity during peak hours by installing 500 solar water heaters
• Reduce the increasing number of companies dealing in solar thermal

Expected Impact

• Reduction in electricity rationing during the peak hour;
• Reduction in energy bills in house holds and institutions using solar water heaters;
• Reduced government spending on subsidies to buy down electricity tariffs due to expensive diesel generators;
• Reduced green house gas emissions from diesel fuelled thermal power plants;
• Reduced cost of solar water heaters;
• Development of reliable solar water heating systems;
• Availability of trained solar water heater installation engineers;
• Increase in the share of renewable energy in the national energy mix.