Energy-Efficient Homes by Emmy Homes
Emmy Homes is proud to deliver energy-efficient homes to Long Island. Our homes leverage Energy Star guidelines, qualifying for Energy Star certification to help ensure the efficiency of your house. This not only reduces your utility costs but also raises the resale value of the house.
In coordination with Home Energy New York, Emmy now builds homes with eco friendly technology built-in. With choices including solar panels, wind turbines and solar heating tubes, Emmy Homes in Commack NY can build and deliver an energy efficient home to you.
The wind turbine systems that will be installed in Commack New York are the Energy Ball v100 and Energy Ball v200. These systems have been designed to produce 500W and 2500W of power respectively. These wind turbines, which closely resemble a weather vane and not a traditional windmill, are very quiet and compact. The v100, for example, is only 3 feet tall. When mounted on a pole on top of your house, is able to use the power of the wind, day and night, generating electricity for you. Any surplus electricity is fed back into the power grid and sold back to the power company.
The solar heating tubes are a different approach to raising the temperature of water used throughout your home. A closed system, it makes use of vacuum tubes containing narrow metal blades. As sunlight warms these blades, they heat tubes of water running through the middle of the blades. This water circulates back to your current systems through coils and indirectly heats the water in your water tank. The water in the heating tubes is not the water that you drink; rather, this water passes through coils that transport the heat energy to the water that you drink.
Solar heating tubes, such as those in the green power systems in Commack, work in both the summer and winter - powered by sunlight. These shatter resistant glass tubes house the blades in a sealed environment. The ambient temperature has no effect on the blade. Even in the cold of winter, solar heating systems collect sunlight and create heat that heats the water passing through the main tube, as high as 190F. Finally, solar electric panels placed on the roof of your new home can produce year-round electricity. While solar energy systems are only effective during daylight hours, the quantity of power they produce can be significant. Excess electricity is automatically routed back to the utility company, that will buy it back from you at the same price that they bill you for electricity. If you are careful and turn off lights and appliances in your house that you are not using, your electric requirements will drop, allowing additional electricity can flow back to the power company. Go on holiday and have your house act as a mini power station, creating electricity and pushing it back to the power grid day in and day out!
Remember, as you look at homes with green energy technology in Commack, keep in mind the tremendous value of having clean energy in your home. A house with wind power, solar electric and other solar energy on Long Island sets you apart from the rest. It is environmentally friendly, and reduces your costs and raises the resale value of your home.
Craig Axelrod, a partner of Emmy Homes writes frequently about LI Real Estate and Commack New Construction
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