Determine locations for installing solar subsystem components, including piping, water heaters, valves, and ancillary equipment.

“Determine locations for installing solar subsystem components, including piping, water heaters, valves, and ancillary equipment.” is a core task performed by Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians. Among the occupation's 21 rated tasks, workers place it 10th by importance (#12 most important). About 94% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Determine operational methods or procedures. in Making Decisions and Solving Problems

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Test operation or functionality of mechanical, plumbing, electrical, and control systems. · importance 4.5
• Apply weather seal, such as pipe flashings and sealants, to roof penetrations and structural devices. · importance 4.4
• Install solar collector mounting devices on tile, asphalt, shingle, or built-up gravel roofs, using appropriate materials and penetration methods. · importance 4.3
• Install copper or plastic plumbing using pipes, fittings, pipe cutters, acetylene torches, solder, wire brushes, sand cloths, flux, plastic pipe cleaners, or plastic glue. · importance 4.3
• Identify plumbing, electrical, environmental, or safety hazards associated with solar thermal installations. · importance 4.3
• Demonstrate start-up, shut-down, maintenance, diagnostic, and safety procedures to thermal system owners. · importance 4.3
• Install circulating pumps using pipe, fittings, soldering equipment, electrical supplies, and hand tools. · importance 4.3
• Install flat-plat, evacuated glass, or concentrating solar collectors on mounting devices, using brackets or struts. · importance 4.3
• Install solar thermal system controllers and sensors. · importance 4.3
• Fill water tanks and check tanks, pipes, and fittings for leaks. · importance 4.2
• Design active direct or indirect, passive direct or indirect, or pool solar systems. · importance 4.2
• Perform routine maintenance or repairs to restore solar thermal systems to baseline operating conditions. · importance 4.1
• Apply operation or identification tags or labels to system components, as required. · importance 4.1
• Install heat exchangers and heat exchanger fluids according to installation manuals and schematics. · importance 4.1

See all tasks on the Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-17771,
  title  = {Determine locations for installing solar subsystem components, including piping, water heaters, valves, and ancillary equipment.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-17771}
}