South African Government embarked on an ambitious Mass Rollout Low Pressure Solar Water Heating Program (LPSWHP) aiming in improving the quality of life of its citizens and relieving the pressure on country's electricity supply system, while achieving reduction in carbon emissions. The world's first approved programmatic carbon trading program of activities on the UNFCCC was listed in South Africa as based on LPSWHP, while meeting all the requirements in terms of project implementation, Trading, Verification and Validation. The paper is intended to review the main results of the SWH affecting the carbon trading program activities including the energy and environmental impacts, which could be used as a road map for organizations and countries around the world in similar projects supporting effective mitigating actions to combat the Climate Change process. The carbon trading program has had a significant impact on the reduction of Carbon Emissions and Electrical Energy offsets, since it has happened at a critical stage for South Africa. The program releases the demand burden on a strained electrical infrastructure. In addition the project has proven social economic impacts and mitigates against energy poverty in an economy with of the highest unemployment rates on the planet.
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