Window solar water heaters now in India

[jpak]

http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14537623

Kochi: Power electronics company Hykon India Pvt. Ltd. has introduced a window collector solar water heater, claimed to be the first in the country.

Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, the company's CMD, Christo George, said the window solar heaters were designed for installation on balconies and windows of flats, apartments and individual villas where conventional roof-top water heaters do not fit in.

The window heaters have capacities ranging from 100 litres per day (LPD) to 200-250 LPD. The prices start at Rs 19,750 for a 100 litre system which would give a price advantage of Rs 6,000 per year in terms of savings on electricity consumption, George said.

As per rules of the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, the solar water heaters were eligible for a soft loan from select nationalised banks at two per cent interest for domestic and five per cent for industrial and institutional installations, he said.

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[JackintheGreen]

1. For anybody who's ever taken a shower in India

this is a GOOD thing. I don't care how hot it gets over there in March/April. BRRRRRRRR!

[Ian David]

2. Rs 19,750 = $500.38

http://www.x-rates.com/calculator.html

[diane in sf]

3. I stayed in cheap-ass hotels in India for 6 months in the 90s and all I had to heat

water with was electrical immersion heaters that I would throw in a bucket of water on the wet bathroom floors. I kept wondering when I was going to electrocute myself!