Solar Heating Tubes And Green Energy
Climate change concerns many of today’s landlords, and using green energy in the form of solar panels to supply your building’s water can go a long way towards allaying a potential tenant’s concerns. Whether you have an industrial building, commercial buildings or residential apartments, your potential clientele will see the fact that a building uses green energy as a major advantage. Installing and utilizing green energy sources like solar panels wherever you can will speak volumes about your ethics to prospective renters.
Green credentials aside, there are lots of reasons to install solar panels. You can save a significant percentage of your gas or electric bills by becoming less reliant on outside energy sources to heat your water. You can use these savings to increase your profit margins, make you more competitive by passing savings on to tenants, or both.
Of course, using solar power to heat water is not a new idea. The idea of using solar power to heat water have been with us since the mid 1800s. However, although steady strides have been made to improve technology, until recently it was of limited use for heating in cold and cloudy locations. And yet these are the places where people spend more money on heating and hot water. With the development of vacuum-sealed solar heating tubes, however, a growing number of people are able to convert to solar energy.
The cylindrical shape of solar heating tubes means they can be positioned so that a part of their surface is continuously facing the sun, allowing the cylinders to absorb the suns rays for longer. Because they are able to harness the sun’s rays more efficiently, they are offer a much more reliable alternative to solar panels, heating water even in colder climates. The fact that they are vacuum sealed increases their efficiency even further because vacuums provide the ideal situation for insulating the heat source. This means that less energy is lost. The heating element on the inside of the tube will get hot, but the outside of the tube, insulated by the vacuum, continues to be cool to the touch. All of this leads to an increase in the amount of the solar power being stored and put to use heating the water in the building.
Your building’s boiler system or hot water heater uses up a significant piece of the power used in your building. You can significantly lower your energy bills and those of your tennants by installing solar heating tubes and using green energy to your advantage. You only have to buy and install the solar heating tubes once, and the savings will keep on coming.
This is the perfect time to begin using green energy like solar heating tubes. Many governments are now offering incentives to incourage landlords to install green technology which generates green energy sources. In some countries you will be eligible for a tax rebate to cover the expenses of installing energy saving devices such as solar panels. Ultimately, green energy is going to be the order of the day for all building owners. It would be better to act now, while the government is willing to help.
Craig Axelrod is VP of Business Development for Emmy Energy, a LI solar energy system operation offering solar heating tubes solar energy systems & clean systems in the North East.
