DOE Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy department introduces consumers to solar heating technologies

As mentioned in previous columns, commercial building loans and their supporting activity are edging toward pre-recession levels. As of mid-year 2013, U.S. banks had issued just short of one trillion dollars in commercial real-estate loans, up almost 4% from a year earlier, according to official sources.

IAPMO/ANSI S1001.1, Design and Installation of Solar Water Heating Systems has been approved by ANSI as an American National Standard.

Climalife’s Greenway bio-based heat-transfer fluids, developed with DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products, offer unique technical properties such as excellent thermal stability at high temperature for solar thermal applications and low viscosity at low temperature for cooling applications.

ClimateMaster’s online calculator demonstrates to homeowners the potential cost savings of a geothermal system.

NSF International recently certified Centennial Plastics’s CenFuse geothermal pipe to the American National Standard for Ground-Source Geothermal Piping Systems – NSF/ANSI Standard 358-1: Polyethylene Pipe and Fittings for Water-Based Ground-Source “Geothermal” Heat Pump Systems.

Joe Wrenchturner gets a call to install solar water heating for a longtime customer. He buys some flat-plate collectors through an online source and decides to assemble the remainder of the system using hardware he installs for other hydronic systems.

Three magical numbers: 20, 40, 60 years. But let’s start with 40. This year marks the 40th anniversary since the federal government issued the document, “America Burning.”

A panel of solar industry judges chose Free Hot Water for its innovative and cost-effective design of a solar hydronic heating, hot water and photovoltaic system that was shown to be cost-competitive with a natural gas system.

Geo-Flo Products’ new ETL-listed flush cart may be used on a 120-volt 15-amp circuit and is listed to UL standard 778.