Roof integrated, coloured stainless steel unglazed solar air collectors for space heating and water heating in housing

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The project investigates the market for a new, innovative, unglazed solar air collector forintegration into the roofs of new and existing housing to provide space heating and waterheating. The innovation promises to provide a cost effective and architecturally attractivemethod of achieving a significant renewable energy contribution for new and existinghousing, the costs and benefits of which will compare extremely favourably with establishedand emerging low carbon energy technologies such as conventional solar water heatingsystems, solar PV, heat pumps, biomass, micro-CHP and fuel cells.This new system will provide a cost effective and practicable solution to housing developerswho are required by Government to build zero carbon homes from 2016 and to house ownerswishing to improve the energy performance of their dwellings.