Bauzentrum München holds free online evening on solar thermal and solar power for homeowners

The Bauzentrum München, the city's building advice centre, is holding a free online information evening on Thursday 22 October at 6pm for homeowners weighing up whether to install solar thermal panels, photovoltaic panels or both. The session is titled "Solar thermal and/or photovoltaics for your own home?". Places must be booked online in advance at https://t1p.de/59cem.

The organisers say that rising energy costs and growing environmental awareness are making renewable energy increasingly important for people who own their homes. Solar thermal systems and photovoltaics can be used to heat domestic hot water, to support a heating system or to generate electricity.

The talk will be given by Dr Michael Schmid, a graduate electrical engineer. He will give a short introduction to the subject as a basis for homeowners' own decisions, and explain the main criteria for choosing between photovoltaics and solar thermal, or combining the two. This will cover homes with heating that runs on fossil fuels as well as homes using a heat pump.

Using the example of a semi-detached house, he will explain yields, costs and benefits, the requirements for an installation and simulation programs. He will also describe the steps needed to run a solar installation successfully.

More information about the Bauzentrum is available at muenchen.de/bauzentrum, and details of its events at veranstaltungen.muenchen.de/bauzentrum.