Kerala & Tamil Nadu
Hot water that costs a quarter to run.
A heat pump takes warmth out of the air instead of burning electricity to make it. Same hot showers, roughly a quarter of the bill, day and night and right through the monsoon.
Costs you
₹22 a day
A geyser costs
₹93 a day
Professionally run since day one
Homes, hotels, hospitals and industry
Uninterrupted hot water, all year round
Authorised, with our own technical support
What we do
Three ways we get you hot water
Pick the one that sounds like you. We will tell you honestly if a different option suits your building better.
For your home
One quiet unit on the terrace heats water for the whole house. A family of four typically spends about ₹22 a day instead of ₹93.
Homes ›For your business
Hotels, hospitals and hostels. Enough hot water for the 7 am rush, at roughly a fifth of what a diesel boiler costs to run.
Businesses ›For your pool
Comfortable water all year. Warms it when the weather turns, cools it when summer sun makes it too warm to enjoy.
Pools ›Solar water heating
₹19,990
typical installed cost per 100 litres
Free hot water whenever the sun is out
Once it is on the roof the fuel costs nothing. We will also tell you plainly where it falls short, because in a Kerala monsoon it does.
- ETC and FPC systems, sized to your roof and water
- From 100 litres a day up to full commercial capacity
- Straight advice on monsoon backup before you buy
Rooftop solar power
₹78,000
maximum government subsidy for a home
Take on the rest of your electricity bill
Water heating is one part of the bill. Rooftop panels cover the rest, and typically pay for themselves in three to five years.
- On grid, hybrid and off grid systems
- PM Surya Ghar and KSEB net metering handled for you
- Payback worked out against your actual KSEB bill
Quick estimate
What would you save?
Move the slider to roughly how much hot water you use in a day, then pick what you heat with now.
What it costs to heat, per day
You would save about
₹64,970 a year
76% less than you pay now. A rough guide only. We confirm the real numbers at the site visit.
The simple version
It moves heat. It does not make it.
Your geyser burns electricity to create heat, so one unit in gives you one unit of warmth at best. A heat pump works like a fridge running backwards. It collects warmth that is already in the outside air and pushes it into your tank.
That is the whole trick. One unit of electricity in, about four and a half units of heat out.
It pulls warmth from the air
Even on a cool, wet Kerala morning the air holds plenty of usable heat. That part is free.
A compressor concentrates it
This is the only step that uses meaningful electricity, and it is a small amount.
Your tank fills with hot water
A steady 55 to 60°C, ready whenever you turn the tap. It tops up quietly through the day.
Why people choose us
We would rather lose the sale than sell you the wrong size
Works in the rain
Solar stops when the clouds come in. This does not. It runs at night and right through the monsoon.
Sized to your mornings
We work out your busiest hour, not just how many people live there. That is why you do not run out at 7 am.
We show the maths
Every quote states what it costs to run and what it replaces. If it does not pay back, we will tell you.
We are still here after
Our own team installs and services. Not a sales business that disappears once the invoice clears.
Recent work
Where our systems are running
Questions
Before you call
Still unsure? Ring us. We do not work on commission and we will not chase you.
Home / Heat pumps / For your home
Hot water for the house, at a quarter of the cost
One quiet unit outside, a well insulated tank inside, and showers that do not run cold at 7 am. Sized properly for your family rather than guessed from a chart.
1 / 4Typical bill
₹22/day
To heat 200 litres. The same water costs about ₹93 on an electric geyser and ₹188 on gas.
Pays for itself in
2 to 4 years
After that the savings are simply yours, for the remaining ten plus years of the unit's life.
How loud
48 dB
About as loud as a fridge. On a terrace or utility area you will not hear it indoors.
Choosing a size
Which size suits your house?
A starting point. On the site visit we look at how many bathrooms run at once in the morning, which matters more than headcount.
3 to 4 people
Two bathrooms, no bathtub. The most common choice for a small family home.
4 to 5 people
Two or three bathrooms, with room for guests staying over.
6 to 8 people
Joint family homes, or four and more outlets running close together.
8 or more
Large villas, homes with a bathtub, or a house with staff quarters attached.
Built for here
Things that matter in a Kerala home
Handles hard water
The tank is enamel coated over steel with a sacrificial anode inside, the part that corrodes so your tank does not. We check it at every service.
Same temperature, always
Water comes out at 55 to 60°C whether it is January or the middle of the monsoon. The last shower is as hot as the first.
A backup for busy days
There is an electric element inside for when you need a lot of hot water quickly. It is rarely needed, but it is there.
Full technical specifications +
Running cost comparison, by tank size +
Questions
Common questions
Home / Heat pumps / For your business
Enough hot water for the 7 am rush, at a fifth of the cost
For hotels, hospitals, hostels and resorts. Replacing a diesel boiler is one of the fastest paying changes you can make to a building's running costs.
1 / 5Diesel boiler
₹516
to heat 1,000 litres
Heat pump
₹111
the same 1,000 litres
On 5,000 L a day
₹7.3L
saved a year, before boiler upkeep
Why projects go wrong
Nearly always, it is the sizing
Get storage and staging wrong and one of two things happens. You run out of hot water at 7 am and hear about it from guests, or you have paid for compressor capacity that sits idle 22 hours a day.
We size against your actual demand curve, when the peak falls and how sharp it is, not against room count alone.
To quote properly, we need
- ›Rooms, beds or users
- ›Roughly how many litres a day, and when the rush is
- ›What you heat with today
- ›Plant room or terrace space available
- ›Whether you run a building management system
Send those and you will get back a sized proposal with running cost and payback against your current system.
Where it fits
Buildings we work on
Hotels and resorts
A sharp 6 to 9 am peak and guests who notice immediately if the water runs lukewarm. Storage handles the peak so you do not oversize the plant.
Hospitals
Hot water around the clock with no room for interruption. No combustion in the plant room, and full visibility from your existing BMS.
Apartments and hostels
Huge daily volume crammed into a two hour window. Almost always cheaper to solve with storage than with more capacity.
Industry and laundries
Steady 55 to 60°C process water for food production, laundries and manufacturing, replacing diesel or LPG.
Boiler replacements
Changed over in stages so the building keeps running. Most of our commercial work is exactly this.
Swimming pool services
Pool heating for hotels, clubs and institutions, from resort pools to competition and therapy pools, with titanium exchangers built for pool chemistry.
Full range and specifications, 4 kW to 55 kW +
Running cost against diesel, gas and electric +
Storage tank options, 300 L to 5,000 L +
Questions
Common questions
Home / Heat pumps / For your pool
A pool that is comfortable all year
Warms the water when the weather turns, and cools it when the summer sun has made it too warm to enjoy. One unit, both jobs.
1 / 2Why not just an electric heater
A pool is a lot of water
It is an enormous volume with an enormous surface losing heat to the air all day. Heating that with an electric element or gas is possible, but the bills are the reason most pools in India simply sit cold.
A heat pump gets you roughly six units of warmth for every unit of electricity. That is the difference between heating the pool and not bothering.
Built for pool water
The heat exchanger is seamless titanium with a rigid PVC shell, so chlorine and salt water do not touch it. That is the part cheaper units get wrong.
One tip that saves more money than anything we can sell you: use a pool cover. It can halve your heat loss.
Both directions
Warm in the cool months, cool in the hot ones
Winter and monsoon, heating
Pool water constantly evaporates and radiates heat away, so it sits several degrees below comfortable for much of the year. The unit puts that heat back.
Summer, cooling
Kerala pools take enormous solar gain and can get genuinely unpleasant to swim in. The same unit runs in reverse and brings it back down.
Full range and specifications +
Questions
Common questions
Home / Solar / Solar water heaters
When the sun is out, the hot water is free
Solar water heating is the cheapest hot water there is. We will also tell you plainly where it falls short, because in a Kerala monsoon it does.
The honest version
Excellent nine months a year
If you have clear unshaded roof space and you use most of your hot water in the evening, solar is very hard to beat. Once it is up, the fuel costs nothing. Kerala installs typically run ₹19,990 upward per 100 litres of daily capacity.
But output follows sunshine. Through the monsoon, and for anyone who wants a hot shower at 5 am, solar alone will let you down.
Which is why we often suggest both. Solar doing the work whenever the sun is out, a heat pump quietly covering everything else.
Two collector types
Which one belongs on your roof?
Both are V-Guard systems we install across Kerala. The right one depends on your water, your budget and how long you intend to keep it.
1 / 2FPC, flat plate
Copper absorber under toughened glass. It shrugs off knocks, copes far better with hard water, and simply lasts longer.
- Best for
- Coastal Kerala, hard water
- Service life
- The longer of the two
- Cost
- 20 to 30% more than ETC
1 / 2ETC, evacuated tube
Borosilicate glass tubes under vacuum. Cheaper up front and marginally better on cold mornings, but the tubes are more fragile and scale more readily.
- Best for
- Tighter budgets, softer water
- Cold mornings
- Slightly ahead of FPC
- Watch for
- Scaling and breakage
On the site visit
Four things that decide whether solar works for you
Shade
One neighbouring wall or a coconut palm can cost you a third of your output. We check this on the roof, not on a map.
Your water
Hardness decides which collector to use and how often it needs cleaning. Get this wrong and it silently underperforms for years.
Tank height
These systems rely on gravity. Not enough height and you need a pressurised system or a pump instead.
Your monsoon plan
Every solar system needs a backup. Either an electric element, or a heat pump, which costs far less to run.
Questions
Common questions
Home / Solar / Rooftop solar power
Up to ₹78,000 back from the government
Rooftop solar for Kerala homes and businesses. We handle the PM Surya Ghar application and the KSEB net metering paperwork, so you do not touch a form.
Choosing
Three setups, and which one you probably want
On grid
Sells your extra power back to KSEB and it is the only kind eligible for the home subsidy. No batteries, cheapest per kW. Will not run during a power cut.
Hybrid
Same as on grid, plus a battery that keeps your essentials running through an outage. Costs more, worth it for clinics and homes that cannot sit dark.
Off grid
Fully battery backed and independent. For farm houses and places where a reliable grid connection is not realistic.
What we handle
Survey to subsidy
Including the parts people dread. The subsidy lands in your bank account, usually within 30 days of commissioning.
Roof survey
Area, angle, structure and where the shade falls through the day. This sets what you will actually generate.
Design and proposal
Panels, inverter, generation estimate and payback worked out against your real KSEB bill, not an average.
All the paperwork
PM Surya Ghar registration and the KSEB net metering application, start to finish.
Installation and inspection
Mounting, wiring, earthing, commissioning, then we coordinate the KSEB inspection and meter change.
Worth knowing before you size a system
Water heating is often a fifth to a third of a household electricity bill. Swap the geyser for a heat pump first and that load mostly disappears, which means the solar array you then need is smaller and cheaper.
Done in that order, the pair often costs less in total than a big array feeding an inefficient geyser. Happy to model both against your bill.
Questions
Common questions
Home / Service
Looked after, it lasts fifteen years
Ignored, more like five. We service heat pumps, solar water heaters and solar panels, including systems we did not install.
1 / 3What we do
Most failures we are called to were preventable
Scale, a spent anode and a dirty coil account for the large majority. All cheap to deal with on schedule.
Regular servicing
Coils cleaned, pressures checked, connections tightened, controls verified and the outlet temperature confirmed.
Anode and scale checks
The most skipped job on any water heater, and the usual reason tanks fail early. A few thousand rupees protects a tank worth many times that.
Repairs
Compressors, fan motors, sensors, valves and control boards, diagnosed and replaced with genuine parts.
Solar servicing
Collectors and tubes cleaned and checked, leaks traced, backup elements tested, panels cleaned.
Uninterrupted hot water
Systems designed and serviced so the hot water never stops: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Quarterly for commercial, twice a year for homes.
Second opinions
System not performing? We will audit it and tell you honestly whether it is worth repairing or replacing.
Questions
Common questions
Home / Our work
Systems running across India
Resorts, hotels, pools and homes across Kerala. Different buildings, same question every time. How much hot water, and when.
Home / About
Who we are
Powering a smarter, more energy-efficient future
Solmart Power Solutions is an energy solutions company built around heat pump technology, serving homes, hotels, hospitals, institutions and industry across Kerala.
Our story
It started with one unglamorous problem
Heating water is one of the largest costs in an Indian building, and almost nobody looks at it closely. In a home it is often a fifth to a third of the electricity bill. In a hotel it is large enough to show up on the accounts. For years the only choices were a resistive element, gas, or a diesel boiler, and all three were expensive to run.
Heat pump technology changed that arithmetic completely. Because a heat pump moves heat rather than making it, it runs at roughly a quarter the cost of an electric geyser and a fifth of a diesel boiler. Solmart Power Solutions was established in 2020 to bring that technology to customers properly, with the engineering and the after-sales support it actually needs.
Since then we have completed more than 1000 projects across residential, commercial, hospitality, institutional and industrial customers, each one sized around that building rather than picked off a shelf.
The engineer behind it
Jikhil John
Founder & Managing Director
Jikhil holds a Diploma and a B.Tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and spent his early career as a Senior Technician in the energy sector. That is where the practical side came from: energy systems, technical operations, installation work, and learning what customers actually need rather than what a brochure says they need.
His specialisation is hot water systems and energy-efficient heat pumps. That focus is why Solmart is a specialist rather than a general contractor, and why sizing is taken seriously here. He is an Authorised V-Guard Direct Marketing Associate, which pairs trusted equipment with our own installation and service team.
He believes good energy solutions rest on three things: the right technology, professional execution, and dependable support after the invoice is paid. Get any one of those wrong and the customer is the one who lives with it.
Our goal is to provide more than a product. We deliver practical energy solutions that create efficiency, savings, reliability, and long-term value for our customers.
Jikhil John, Founder & Managing Director
Our expertise
What we actually do
Heat pumps and hot water
Our core work. Energy-efficient heat pump systems that cut conventional energy use while still delivering reliable hot water, whatever the building needs.
Complete energy solutions
Understanding the requirement, recommending the right technology, then installation, commissioning, service and ongoing support. Not just the box.
Trusted equipment
As a Direct Marketing Associate of V-Guard, we supply one of India's established electrical and energy brands, backed by our own technical support.
Why choose Solmart
A good energy solution is more than a product
It is a combination of the right technology, proper installation, responsive service, and support that lasts. Our commitment is built around five things.
- 01Professional installationCareful, technically sound work, because performance depends on it more than on the badge.
- 02Competitive pricingSolutions designed to deliver real value and long-term savings, not the lowest quote on paper.
- 03Fast servicePrompt response when something is needed. Hot water is not something you can wait a week for.
- 04After-sales supportContinued assistance so the system stays reliable for its full life, not just its first year.
- 05Customised solutionsSelected around your application, capacity and energy needs. Sizing is the part everyone else rushes.
Our commitment
Making energy efficiency practical
Our goal is to make energy efficiency accessible and reliable, not theoretical. We keep adopting better technology and delivering solutions that genuinely reduce energy use and operating costs, from a single home requirement to large commercial and industrial plant.
Smart Energy. Efficient Solutions. Reliable Service.
Coverage
Where we work
Home / Contact
Tell us what needs heating
A rough idea of your building and how much hot water you get through is enough to start. The site visit is free and there is no obligation.
Call
+91 98464 14404+91 85904 14404Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 6 pm
Office
Adimaly, Idukki, KeralaVennala High School Road, Vennala, Kochi 682028We cover