Solar Hot Water Systems – What You Need to Know

Originally aired June 28, 2017

The inaugural session in SSF’s “Going Green Without Going Into the Red” series — featuring green energy and environmentally friendly technologies with significant practical benefits. Clean energy technology leader Scott Sklar reviews the pros and cons of investing in solar hot water systems for residential, commercial, and industrial uses, while Arden Steiner of Rayviance presents case studies from their pump-free thermosyphon convection flow solar hot water technology.

Speakers

Scott Sklar

President, The Stella Group, Ltd.

Scott Sklar is President of The Stella Group, Ltd., a strategic policy and clean technology optimization firm specializing in distributed clean energy — including advanced batteries, energy efficiency, fuel cells, geoexchange, microhydropower, photovoltaics, small wind, and solar thermal. He previously served for 15 years as Executive Director of both the Solar Energy Industries Association and the National BioEnergy Industries Association, and is one of the country’s foremost authorities on clean energy technology applications.

Arden Steiner

Co-Founder, Rayviance; General Manager, Affordable Fuels

Arden Steiner is a business owner in the energy industry and General Manager of Affordable Fuels, a full-service energy marketer in Middleburg, Pennsylvania. He is also a co-founder of Rayviance, which holds the U.S. license for a solar hot water technology originally developed by USAID for a project in Nepal — a pump-free thermosyphon convection flow system to which Steiner and his team have added improvements enhancing operational efficiency and durability across commercial and residential installations.