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If you’re a landlord solar energy can help you slash your heating costs and attract more tenants to your buildings. Using the most up-to-date renewable energy technology will allow you to dramatically reduce your dependency on fuel oil and electricity for your heating needs. One of the best ways to do this is with solar heating tubes. Whether you are a residential landlord or a commercial landlord solar energy will help you attract an emerging clientele who are concerned about their carbon footprints, for either practical or ideological reasons. As government regulations regarding energy usage becomes stricter, businesses have little choice but to use buildings that have low emissions. Residential tenants are also showing an increased interest in homes that use alternative energy.

How Much Energy Do Solar Heating Tubes Provide?

For every landlord solar energy can have benefits, but the extent of the benefits you can receive by installing solar heating tubes will depend primarily on what sort of heating system your buildings use. The majority of properties will be able to receive the advantages of using the solar heating tubes to heat your building’s water. Landlords with properties which make use of radiant heat will further benefit by using solar power to heat the property itself. Either way, however, the savings can be quite considerable, especially over an extended time frame.

Solar heating tubes help you reduce your heating costs even if your properties are in a colder environment, or one that has fewer days of direct sunlight. The tubes, cylindrical in shape, are a pretty recent development, and represent a dramatic improvement over the flat solar panels that have been with us since the 1960s. The way the tubes are shaped enables them to be positioned in such a way that they are in continual contact with the sun, thus making best use of what solar energy is available. Vacuum tubes are also used to ensure optimal insulation, which ensures that very little of the collected energy is wasted until it is used to heat the building’s water supply. And less solar power lost means less electricity and gas used, saving you money on your heating expenses.

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So, while solar technology has been around for several decades, and environmentally aware governments have been encouraging landlords to seek out energy efficient, environmentally-freindly ways to heat their buildings for years, the means to do so has now been made available. If you want to reduce your energy bills and bring in green tenants, you should contemplate installing the most up-to-date solar heating tubes at your earliest convenience. With most of the world’s governments now on board with the move towards green energy, and many of them promising substantial incentives for landlords green energy not only makes ethical and environmental sense, but financial sense too. So why wait?

Despite the fact that installing a solar energy system will save you a lot of money, and despite the fact that using green energy will help you attract a new breed of tenants, it would still be the right thing to do. You will be saving money and the environment at the same time, and that’s not a bad combination at all.

Craig Axelrod is VP of Business Development for Emmy Energy, a Long Island solar energy business installing solar heating tubes solar energy systems & clean energy systems throughout the North East.