Top Green Energy Products to Save You Money

EmmyEnergy, a division of Emmy Homes, offers owners and operators of commercial, industrial and multi-tenant residential real estate top clean energy products designed to save money, attract tenants and help the environment.

Every year millions of tenants use electricity and fossil fuels to operate their businesses, as well as to provide heating and cooling. This is increasingly expensive, damaging to the environment and has become "politically incorrect." With real green energy technologies, you can now offer electricity and heat, using solar energy, to deliver true "green power" to your tenants.

Solar Electricity: Free Electricity from Sunlight

While you are likely familiar with solar electric power, you may not be aware of the economic benefits it provides. The systems and installation, without subsidies, can be expensive. However, with a series of government subsidies, tax credits, accelerated depreciation and other benefits, the cost falls significantly.

Using a solar energy system, typically placed on a rooftop, you capture electricity throughout the day. The system delivers your surplus electricity to the power grid, with the utility buying your electricity. In effect, it causes your meter to spin backwards, reducing the usage shown on your bill. Operate an office building? The sun shines on weekends too, and you can sell all of that power back to the utility.

Solar Heating Tubes: Tremendous Heat Production from Sunlight

Many people are unaware of the potential delivered by solar heating tubes. These vacuum sealed tubes contain long thin blades (or fins) designed to capture sunlight. As sunlight strikes the blades, they rise in temperature and transfer that heat to thin tubes running the length of the blade. The anti-freeze fluids inside the blades rise in temperature, as high as 190 degrees F. This hot fluid circulates back to your heating systems, transferring the heat to hot water heaters.

The heat produced is created by sunlight, not outside air temperatures (the vacuum sealed tubes do not conduct heat or cold from the outside). You produce tremendous amounts of heat energy, even in the winter months. This directly impacts your costs, including oil and other heating costs, on a year-round basis.

Wind Turbines: Compact Sources of Wind Energy

We're all familiar with the giant windmills operating in wind farms across the globe. Many of these windmills stand 300 feet tall with 90 foot blades. This is great for a rural area, but completely impractical for metropolitan settings. With the Energy Ball v100 and v200, you can place compact wind gathering devices on the roof of your building or on a pole similar to a flag pole. It resembles a weather vane, and stands just 6 feet tall, enabling landlords to place multiple units on a single rooftop.

Wind turbines operate 24 hours/day, with no need for sunlight. As with solar electricity, excess electricity produced can be fed back into the power grid, with the utility paying you for the excess electricity you produce.

Why Building Owners Must Go Green

There are several reasons why you need to add green energy to your buildings:

1. You can lower your own bills. Electricity and heat are not free. We all remember what happened when oil hit $140/barrel, and that could potentially occur again. By producing your own electricity and heat from solar energy, you lower your own long term energy costs significantly.
2. Many tenants want green energy. With low occupancy rates and falling rents, prospective tenants have many options. By adding green energy, you distinguish yourself to tenants (both companies and their owners) who care about environmental issues.
3. You make a real contribution to the environment. The reality is that fossil fuels are extremely damaging to the environment. The more we utilize true zero-impact energy sources, such as sunlight and wind, the more we improve our own environment. Offices, retail locations, industrial centers and multi-tenant apartment buildings use significant amounts of power every year. By shifting some of that consumption to solar and wind, you really do make a difference.