Paper presented to the 3rd Southern African Solar Energy Conference, South Africa, 11-13 May, 2015.
The Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies of Stellenbosch University has implemented a test and demonstration facility for solar water heating systems. The purpose of the facility is to conduct the performance testing of the solar water heating systems. The initial performance tests on the reference collector have been conducted and the results have been used to validate the installed facility.