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The world of property rental is tough and challenging. As we all know, there are only two ways to keep yourself ahead in the real-estate business. The first is to raise your profits, which often involves raising the rent for your tenants; the other is to lower your expenses. In today’s competitive market, raising your tenants’ rent may end up being an oversight, as tenants could simply choose to look elsewhere. With the market being what it is, they would have little difficulty finding buildings that have reduced rental prices. Consequently, the best approach would be to lower your costs. Solar heating tubes reduce heating costs, slashing one of the bigger bills that cut into your profits, and do so for less than you may expect.

Regardless of whether you own industrial, residential or commercial buildings, your tenants will need hot water. Providing hot water for your building is probably one of your largest expenditures. If you want to lower your expenses this would be a good starting point. Installing solar heating tubes will help you reduce heating expenses by heating some of your building’s water for free using only sunshine. Unlike solar panels, solar heating tubes will operate whatever the weather so you can keep on saving money throughout the year.

Solar heating tubes are basically cylinders designed to take in and store the suns energy. Their cylindrical shape makes them more efficient compared to solar panels. Part of the tubes’ surface is continuously in contact with the sun allowing them to take in energy all day long, whereas solar panels require direct sunlight to function.

The solar heating tubes produce energy within the cylinder, transferring that energy to an inner blade and within that, a tube of fluid. That liquid super-heats to 170 degrees Fahrenheit and that heat energy is transferred to your heating system. Put simply, this means that your building’s water is heated by the radiant heat of the sun. Solar heating tubes also give you another way to reduce heating costs; by using that heated water to heat your entire building.

The bottom line is that solar heating tubes reduce heating costs. This will give you an edge in a competitive market. With climate change experts calling for people to switch to renewable energy, you should seriously consider installing solar heating tubes as one way to reduce heating costs. With a bit of research you should be able to find that the government will compensate you for some of the installation costs.

Of all the benefits to your own costs and the environment, conceivably the best is that your tenants will love you for it. You may even find, should you be advertising for new tenants, that your cost cutting measures have given you a great deal of appeal with an increasing number of people that are concerned about the environment.

Craig Axelrod is a partner for EmmyEnergy.com, a New York solar energy system business delivering solar heating tube systems solar pv systems & clean energy products in the Northeast.