Emmy Homes is proud to deliver energy-efficient homes to Long Island. Our designs leverage Energy Star guidelines, qualifying for Energy Star certification to help ensure the energy efficiency of your house. This not only cuts your utility bills 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 ranging from solar panels, solar heating tubes and wind turbines, Emmy Homes in Commack NY can build and deliver an energy efficient house to you.
The wind power systems that will be used in Commack New York are the Energy Ball v100 and Energy Ball v200. These systems are designed to generate 500W and 2500W of electricity 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 home, is able to use wind power, day and night, generating electricity for you. Any surplus electricity is fed back into the grid and the power company pays you for that electricity.
The solar heating tubes are a unique approach to heating the water used throughout your house. A closed system, it makes use of vacuum tubes containing narrow metal blades. As sunlight warms these blades, they heat water in tubes running through a seam in 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 solar heating tubes is not the water that you drink; rather, this water travels through coils that transport the heat energy to the water that you use to drink, bathe and clean your clothes.
Solar heating tubes, such as those in the green energy systems in Commack, work year round – based on the sun. These shatter resistant glass tubes contain the blades inside a vacuum environment. The ambient temperature has no effect on the blade. Even in the cold of winter, solar heating tubes collect sunlight and heat the water passing through the main tube, as high as’0F. Finally, solar electric panels installed on the roof of your new house can generate year-round electricity. While solar panels are only effective during the daytime, the amount of power they produce can be tremendous. Excess electricity is automatically routed back to the power company, that will buy it back from you at the same rate that they charge you for power. If you are smart and shut off lights and appliances in your home that are not in use, your power demand will drop, allowing even more electricity can flow back to the power company. Go on vacation 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 solutions in Commack, keep in mind the massive value of having clean energy in your home. A house with wind power, solar electric and other solar energy on Long Island gives you advantages over the rest. It is environmentally friendly, and lowers your costs and raises the resale value of your home.
Craig Axelrod, a principal of Emmy Homes pens frequently about Long Island Real Estate and Commack New Construction