Living The Renewable Energy Home Dream

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With all the advances in renewable energy technology, it has become easier to start converting your home into a renewable energy home. A renewable energy home utilizes renewable resources to provide electricity, hot water, heat and peace of mind. A peace of mind that comes from the knowledge that even though energy prices keep rising, yours won’t.

There are several ways to implement your renewable energy home plan. The first is through solar energy. In a renewable energy home you can install solar hot water panels which heat and store water for use and you can also install solar panels, which use photovoltaic cells to convert sunlight into electricity.

Both these solar systems can be pricey if you purchase them through and have them installed by a professional. Fortunately for us there are many great resources available to build your own solar panels and solar hot water systems that can reduce the cost greatly. For some professionally installed systems over half of the cost is labor costs.

If you are about to start building your own house, a great way to make it a ‘green’ energy home is through the implementation of passive solar design. The passive solar elements have to be planned for during the design stages because it is difficult to add any of these elements during construction or after the house has been constructed.

Passive solar takes advantage of the south facing (if you live in the northern hemisphere) sides of the house for heating and cooling. By installing lots of highly efficient windows and heat retaining bricks and stone on your south facing areas and awnings, you are taking advantage of passive solar techniques to develop your green energy home.

Another addition to the green energy home would be a windmill. Windmills are used to generate electricity from the wind. Windmills can be installed on rooftops or in yards and offer pollution free electric. Windmills can be purchased from retailers or there are a wide variety of affordable kits available for the motivated do-it-yourselfers to handle the implementation of their own green energy home plans. However a word of caution, even though governments try talking the talk, they don’t often walk the walk. Planing regulations may prohibit you from installing a windmill in your property or rooftop.

If you lucky enough to have a stream, with a reasonable flow of water, on your property, you could add to the efficiency of your green energy home with a small hydroelectric power system. This is also a great pollution free option that is easy to maintain and works as long as there is water available.

The ultimate green energy home combines as many of these resources. By using wind, water and solar to generate electricity you are looking not only at huge savings and possible profits from your electricity usage, but you would truly be ‘green’ as each of these options contributes allowing you to go off grid. To further combine passive solar design and solar hot water systems, you are reducing your energy needs exponentially and truly living the dream of going green.

A ‘green’ or renewable energy home doesn’t require more maintenance than traditional homes. Solar technologies require little to no maintenance and wind and water turbines require only regular oiling for peak performance. There is no better time to create your ‘green’ energy home and start living your ‘green’ dream.

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As always, I wish you everything I wish myself.

Until the next time.

Alain

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