Emmy Homes is proud to bring energy-efficient homes to Long Island. Our homes leverage Energy Star rules, qualifying for Energy Star certification to help ensure the efficiency of your house. This not only reduces your utility bills but also increases the resale value of the home.
In coordination with Home Energy New York, Emmy now builds houses with green energy 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 house to you.
The wind turbine systems that will be used in Commack New York are the Energy Ball v100 and v200 systems. These systems have been designed to generate 500W and 2500W of electricity respectively. These wind turbines, which closely resemble a weather vane as opposed to 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 wind power, night and day, 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 heating the water used throughout your home. A fully enclosed 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 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 consume; rather, this water passes through coils that carry the heat energy to the water that you bathe with.
Solar heating tubes, such as those in the green power systems in Commack, work in both the summer and winter – based on sunlight. These shatter resistant glass tubes house the blades in a sealed environment. The outside cold 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 installed on the roof of your new home can generate year-round electricity. While solar energy systems are only effective during the daytime, the quantity of electricity they produce can be significant. Excess electricity is automatically sent back to the power company, who buys it back from you at the same rate that they bill you for power. If you are careful and turn 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 utility. Go on vacation and have your home act as a mini power station, generating 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 massive value of having green energy in your home. A home 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 increases 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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