The industry claims that the traditional electric water heater accounts for up to 30 percent of the power bill in the typical household. Some people try to reduce that with a timer or by switching to tankless heaters. In any case, most people know that the electric water heater uses a lot of power, and that replacing it with a relatively inexpensive solar heater would save a significant amount of power.

This is just one of many ways a consumer – the person who pays the Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) bill – reduces the amount of power BPL needs to produce. It may be somewhat simplistic, but imagine every household on the island installing a solar water heater, thereby reducing the amount of power BPL needs to produce by up to 30 percent, significantly more than the current BPL generation shortage.

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