Solar Heating Tubes Reduce Heating Costs

April 19, 2010
By Craig Axelrod

It can be difficult to keep pace in today's rental market. As we all know, there are only two ways to keep yourself ahead in the game. One is to increase your profits, which generally means raising the rent for your tenants, or lowering operating costs. In today's competitive market, raising your tenants' rent may very well cost you more income than it brings in, as tenants may simply choose to look elsewhere. And with the market being what it is, they may have little difficulty finding others who are willing to cut their rental rates. Therefore, if you want to stay ahead, the best way to do so is by cutting your costs. Solar heating tubes reduce heating costs, lowering one of the larger bills that cut into your profits.

Regardless of whom your tenants are, whether you own an apartment building, industrial, commercial, or any other kind of property, your tenants use hot water. And it's likely that your boiler presents one of your larger expenses. Using solar heating tubes to heat your water takes a large bite out of the amounts of gas or electricity you need to consume to keep your tenants in hot water, thereby reducing your bills (and your bottom line) considerably. With modern solar technology, even those who own property in colder, less sunny climates can get in on the savings.

Modern solar heating tubes utilize a rounded shape that allows the sun's rays to strike during nearly the entire time that the sun is out. So much of the surface is used, and for such long periods of time, that solar energy has become a serious option in many places where it would not have been very useful or cost effective before. Further, the energy in transferred to a rod that is stored inside a vacuum sealed tube, ensuring that the energy that the solar tubes produce can actually be stored with little to no loss of energy. What that means, to put it in the simplest terms, is that your solar heating tubes will be able to efficiently do the job they were intended to do, namely heat your building's water. If your building utilizes a radiant heating source, you may even be able to cut into your actual building heating costs with your solar heating tubes.

The bottom line is that solar heating rods reduce heating costs. And any costs that you can reduce or eliminate give you an edge in a tough market. With most of the civilized world calling for businesses and individuals to convert from carbon based fossil fuels to renewable forms of energy, you should give some serious thought to investing in solar heating rods as one way to reduce your heating costs and drive down your bottom line. Look into government programs that may defray some of the costs associated with installing solar heating rods and other environmentally friendly sources of energy production.

Of all the benefits to your own costs and the environment, perhaps the best benefit to installing solar heating tubes to your building comes from the satisfaction your tenants have knowing that you are doing what you can to keep costs down for yourself and for them. You may even find, should you be looking for new tenants, that your cost cutting measures have given you a great deal of appeal with an ever increasing number of potential environmentally conscious tenants.