Facilities

Solar energy in Tennessee

How to optimize energy costs

Many clients that have planned to build a single family residence ask us for advice about the structure of the energetic system of the house.

We strongly recommend to use always solar energy not only for solar heating water, but for domestic heating as well, because the money investion is not much higher and we can secure us a big amount of money saved during the whole lifetime of the facility.

As options for the generation of energy, we can also give a piece of advice. We recommend to use pellets boilers and heat pumps. Only as a second option, we offer gas or gasoil high performance boilers, since they are less ecological, due to the use of fossil fuels.

Pellets are small balls of a material similar to sawdust. This material comes from forestal wastes.

Heat pumps are not very known by the public, but they are high efficiency climatization. They are basically devices that move heat from a place to another, just as water pumps. That is why they are so efficient, because they need the energy to generate that moving, not to generate more energy.

A fridge, for example, is a not reversible heat pump, that means, it moves heat in only one direction. In this case, they extract heat from the inside of the fridge and they expulse it to the outside with the pipes located behind the fridge. So, we can see, they are not using electricity to generate cold, but to empy the fridge of heat. They only move heat.

A good heat pump can be used to cover 100% of the energetic demand of a dwelling: it can produe hot water, heating and cooling.