Emmy Homes is proud to bring energy-efficient homes to Long Island. Our homes make use of Energy Star rules, qualifying for Energy Star certification to help ensure the energy efficiency of your home. This not only reduces your utility costs but also increases the resale value of the home.
In coordination with Home Energy New York, Emmy now builds homes with green energy technology built-in. With choices ranging from solar panels, wind turbines and solar heating tubes, Emmy Homes in Commack New York 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 produce 500W and 2500W of electricity respectively. These wind turbines, which closely resemble a weather vane as opposed to a traditional windmill, are very 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, producing 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 different approach to heating the water used throughout your house. A fully enclosed system, it makes use of vacuum sealed tubes containing narrow metal blades. As sunlight warms these blades, they heat tubes of water 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 bring the heat energy to the water that you drink.
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 contain the blades in a sealed environment. The outside cold has no effect on the blade. Even in the coldest temperaturs, 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 placed on the roof of your new home can produce year-round electricity. While solar panels are only effective during the daytime, the quantity of power they produce can be significant. Excess electricity is automatically routed back to the power company, who buys it back from you at the same rate that they charge you for power. If you are smart and turn off lights and appliances in your home that you are not using, your power demand will drop, allowing additional electricity can flow back to the utility. Go on vacation and have your house act as a mini power station, creating electricity and selling it back to the power grid day in and day out!
Remember, as you look at homes with clean 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 gives you advantages over the rest. It is good for the environment, and lowers your costs and raises the resale value of your home.
Craig Axelrod, a partner of Emmy Homes pens extensively about LI Real Estate and Commack Real Estate
