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My home's wood burner/stove is located in close proximity to our hot water cylinder, thru an internal wall.
The wood burner/stove has a pipe running from it to the hot water cylinder to transfer heat to the hot water cylinder.
We also run an integrated solar water heating system from our roof to our hot water cylinder.
In winter, it requires a bit of wood being burned to turn off the hot water cylinder electric element.
in summer, our roof mounted solar hot water heater can easily max out the temperature to scalding.
Since heating water can take up to 40% of a family electric bill(assuming not running gas/oil), we've had a really big drop in our electric bill(post tax dollars) over the last 4-5 years we've been running them.
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