Energy-Efficient Houses by Emmy Homes
Emmy Homes is proud to deliver energy-efficient homes to Long Island. Our homes make use of Energy Star rules, qualifying for Energy Star certification to help ensure the efficiency of your home. This not only cuts your utility bills but also increases the resale value of the home.
In conjunction with Home Energy New York, Emmy now builds homes with eco friendly technology built-in. With choices including solar panels, solar heating tubes and wind turbines, Emmy Homes in Commack New York can build and deliver an energy efficient home to you.
The wind power 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 more 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 harness the wind, night and day, generating electricity for you. Any surplus electricity is fed back into the grid and sold back to the power company.
The solar heating tubes are a unique approach to raising the temperature of water used throughout your house. A fully enclosed system, it makes use of vacuum sealed tubes containing narrow metal blades. As sunlight hits these blades, they heat water in tubes running through a seam in the blades. This water circulates back to your heating system 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 travels through coils that bring the heat energy to the water that you bathe with.
Solar heating tubes, such as those in the green energy systems in Commack, work in both the summer and winter - based on the sun. These shatter resistant glass tubes house the blades in a sealed environment. The outside cold has no effect on the blade. Even in the coldest temperaturs, solar heating tubes collect sunlight and heat the water passing through the central tube, as high as 190F. Finally, solar electric panels placed on the roof of your new house can produce year-round electricity. While solar panels are only effective during daylight hours, the amount of electricity they produce can be tremendous. Excess electricity is automatically sent back to the utility company, that will buy it back from you at the same rate that they bill you for power. If you are careful and shut off lights and appliances in your house that are not in use, your electric requirements will drop, allowing additional electricity can flow back to the utility. Go on holiday and have your home act as a small power station, creating electricity and selling it back to the power grid day in and day out!
Remember, as you look at houses 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 bills and increases the resale value of your house.
Craig Axelrod, a partner of Emmy Homes writes frequently about LI Real Estate and Commack New Construction
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