Youth group Ecoclub and its partners – National Ecological Center of Ukraine, and Vidrodzhennia (Renaissance) ecological organization in 2011 started the four-year Switch to the Sun project funded by the European Union. They focused on educating local communities and distributing materials on how to build solar collectors step-by-step, as well as they bring international experts to monitor the construction.
Thanks to solar heating systems, residents of villages and small towns can have hot water round-the-clock. Sun shines through a panel that heats a water tank by up to 80 degrees Celsius in summer. Even during the winter, the high temperature is kept up to three days. The collector itself has two square meters and can heat up to nearly 200 liters of water per day. It costs around Hr 6,000-7,000 ($280-330) to make and install the collector. At least 60 collectors have been installed in Ukraine during the last three years of the project and over 200 - in Georgia. Read more at http://www.kyivpost.com/
Thanks to solar heating systems, residents of villages and small towns can have hot water round-the-clock. Sun shines through a panel that heats a water tank by up to 80 degrees Celsius in summer. Even during the winter, the high temperature is kept up to three days. The collector itself has two square meters and can heat up to nearly 200 liters of water per day. It costs around Hr 6,000-7,000 ($280-330) to make and install the collector. At least 60 collectors have been installed in Ukraine during the last three years of the project and over 200 - in Georgia. Read more at http://www.kyivpost.com/
