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If you are building a new home, it makes sense to research your options carefully, especially when it comes to your hot water service. After all, water heating is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions from the average Australian home and can account for 25% of your household’s energy usage. For your hot water system, there are four main choices: electric, gas, heat pump and solar. When building a new modular home, both gas instantaneous and electric storage systems are available as a standard inclusion. Both are good options, but if you’re serious about long-term benefits you can’t go past solar. How Home Solar Hot Water System Works? A home solar hot water system can be either a split configuration of a tank installed on the ground with roof mounted thermal collectors, or a completely roof-mounted unit, where both the tank and collectors are installed on the roof. It works by using the thermal collectors to absorb the sun’s energy, and then the cold water i...