Passive solar design and technology
What are the benefits of passive solar design?
- A more comfortable indoor environment- warm in winter and cool in summer.
- Lower heating and cooling bills.
- After recovering the initial cost, your power savings can be immense.
- Easy to maintain.
- appropriate applications
- construction issues
- estimated costs
- suppliers
- references
- indicative energy savings.
- examples
- benefits
- potential energy savings
- design considerations.
Downloads
- Solar technologies list (130.50KB)
- Solar air heating idea sheet (165.19KB)
- Solar chimney idea sheet (158.31KB)
- Natural ventilation systems (205.19KB)
- Transpired solar air heaters (894.38KB)
- Light shelves idea sheet (156.29KB)
- Light pipes idea sheet (178.75KB)
- Dual purpose solar hot water (116.46KB)
- Photovoltaic systems with heat recovery idea sheet (164.53KB)
- Solar concentrators idea sheet (174.37KB)
- Thermal mass (266.44KB)
- Trombe walls idea sheet (166.16KB)
- Heat pumps idea sheet (155.21KB)
- Hollow core idea sheet (170.19KB)
