The creation of renewable fuels to replace dwindling fossil energy resources is one of the greatest challenges facing the scientific community. Generating H-2 fuel from water is a carbon-neutral strategy that demonstrates great promise. Photocatalysts of the molecular architecture [{(TL)(2)Ru(BL)}(2)RhX2](5+) (BL = bridging ligand, TL = terminal ligand, X = halide) catalyze the formation of H-2 in deoxygenated organic solvents but are limited by poor performance in air-saturated aqueous solutions. Addition of the water-soluble polyelectrolyte poly(sodium 4-styrenesulfonate) (PSS) was recently shown as being a promising new strategy to increase efficiency and stability of H-2 evolving photocatalysts in air-saturated aqueous solutions. Herein we investigate intermolecular interactions between Ru,Rh,Ru photocatalysts and water-soluble polyelectrolytes using isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). ITC studies provide insight into the thermodynamic forces that drive assembly of PSS-photocatalyst aggregates and give new evidence for the intermolecular forces that lead to increased photocatalytic efficiency.