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Originally Posted by Russ_Boston
I guess the question really is "does using solar heating for your pool ever pay for itself?".
Obviously if you use the solar system to heat then it is saving a certain amount of gas/electricity that would otherwise be used. I was told that it is about a 4 year payback at current electric rates. We plan on just using solar and use TV pools during the colder months.
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Yes I believe it does or in our case it will. My best guess is a savings of about $600 per year using solar to heat the pool vs propane gas. But we have only had the solar for less than one year and this past winter was not a good one for using a pool, so it was tough to get a good idea of our savings.
Like you we had planned on using the TV pools during the winter but with the solar we had found that we had warm enough water in our pool up until early December and then again in late March. We found the system to increase our pool temp by 8 - 10 degrees on a good sunny day even this past winter. So we are curious as to what an average winter will mean for our pool temps.