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Green Energy And Solar Heating Tubes
Climate change concerns both landlords and tenants alike, and using green energy in the form of solar heating tubes to heat your building’s water can do much to allay a potential tenant’s concerns. Whether you have industrial buildings, commercial buildings or residential buildings, your prospective tenants will see the fact that a building uses green energy as a huge selling point. Switching to green technology where possible will speak volumes about your ethics to prospective renters.
Green credentials aside, there are lots of reasons to install solar panels. You can reduce your gas and electric bills significantly by becoming less dependent on these sources of heat for your building’s hot water consumption. You can use these savings to to maintain the building, make you more competitive by passing savings on to your tenants, or both.
Solar heated water is not a new concept, of course. Experiments into the potential uses of solar power were conducted as early as the mid 1800s. However, while the technology has come a long way since then, until recently it was of limited use for heating in cold or cloudy countries. And this is where people spend more money on heating and hot water. With the development of vacuum-sealed solar heating tubes, however, more people are now able to convert to a solar energy system.
The cylindrical shape of solar heating tubes allows them to be positioned so that a part of their surface is continually facing the sun, allowing the cylinders to absorb considerably more solar energy than flat solar panels. As they’re able to harness the sun’s energy more efficiently, they are offer a more reliable alternative to solar panels, heating water even during the winter and on cold days. The fact that they are vacuum sealed further helps their efficiency given that vacuums provide the perfect conditions in which to insulate the heat source. This means less heating power is lost. The inside of the tube can be blazing hot, while the outside of the tube, insulated by the vacuum, is still cool to the touch. This results in an increase in the amount of the solar energy being retained and used to heat the water in the building.
Your building’s boiler system or hot water heater uses up a significant chunk of the electricity and/or gas used by your building. You can significantly lower your energy bills and those of your tennants by installing solar heating tubes and using the sun’s energy to your advantage. You only need to buy and install the solar heating tubes once, and the savings will last a lifetime.
This is the perfect time to start using a green energy source like solar water heating tubes. Governments the world over are now offering incentives for building owners to install a solar energy system which makes use of renewable energy sources. Governments will usually cover the cost of installing a solar energy system or award you a tax rebate equivalent to their value. Eventually, every building will have to use some kind of renewable energy. It would be better to get on board now, while the government is willing to help.
Craig Axelrod is VP of Business Development for Emmy Energy, a LI solar power company offering solar heating tubes solar energy systems & clean products throughout the Northeast.
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