Energy Conscious Consultant

Save Money With Solar

For a solar powered system on your home, you need modules.  The size of them and how many depends upon what you want to run within your home.  What do you want your savings to be?  Modules come in different watts.  They can have up to 300 watts per module.  You can series smaller panels of 120 watts or 175 watts to increase the voltage.

Solar Powered System: Calculations To Consider

A solar powered system needs to be designed for your needs.  Calculations are made for normal use of your electrical system.  But energy systems for determining energy use are different.  Everybody’s needs are different.  Everybody wants are different.  Everybody is different in the way they use energy.  That is a big factor in trying to determine a set factor to determine that individual’s needs.

Bloom Box: Form Of Alternative Energy

Bloom Energy announced it has released Bloom Boxes. It is a form of alternative energy in the shape of small boxes.  A series of these boxes can power your refrigerator, or lights.  Larger series of these Bloom Boxes have been placed to power businesses such as Google and EBay. These boxes are actually fuel cells that have been painted with a special formula.  This paint formula is painted on a special surface of treated beach sand.  I like the fact that he is using natural resources to obtain his alternative energy.  Once stacked, they are series or grouped together in a larger box the size of a refrigerator.

Electricians Going Green

As a trained electrician, I have followed the National Electric Code.  I have even, on occasion, whipped out my NEC book.  When someone dared contradicted my work, I can prove them wrong through the code.  This code is not just for your local ordinances or state wide.  In the United States, it is guidelines that ALL ELECTRICIANS must follow around the country.  The code also describes, in detail, code for solar powered systems as well as wind powered systems. All installers must follow this code.

Electrical Changes Before Inspection

You need to hire an electrician to wire your new home or the addition to your present home.  He will wire it up to code and have his work inspected. 

Save Energy Through Energy Efficienct Homes

Energy efficiency should be a priority before going solar.  Some people use solar energy to lower their bills.  It’s a big consideration as a reason for going solar. But to have solar and leave all the doors and windows open and the air conditioner on does not make sense.  Would you turn your outside flood lights on and leave them on all night?  If you want security, get a motion sensor in your flood lights. But don’t leave the lights on 24 hours a day. If you do and you have solar, that is abusing the energy you are producing.

Solar Heated Swimming Pool Will Save You Money

What’s involved with a solar heating swimming pool? The amount or size of solar collectors directly reflects from the size of your pool.  Collectors are heat solar panels, solar heaters.  Collectors collect heat from the sun to heat water.  The heat of the sun is necessary for heat exchanging.  We exchange cold water for warm. We are exchanging the heat.  The water is collected and run through these heater panels that the sun heats up and run down back into the pool. It is similar to a regular pool pump.  It takes the water from the pool and pumps it back through the filter and into the pool.  If you have a pool heater, it pumped it through a propane heater exchanger.  That propane tank heated up that water and it flowed back to the pool.  But it used propane to do that.  Solar heated swimming pools are more efficient and will save you money.

House Circuits: What Can They Handle?

To become an electrician, it takes years.  You must first start at the bottom as an apprentice.  Then you can become a journeyman.  Then after approval from the electrical contractor you worked under, you can become an electrician. An experienced electrician has dealt with a lot of problems within the same realm of the electrical field.  He can find and identify a problem - like overloading house circuits. 

Insurance Coverage For Contractors

As a homeowner, you should hire a licensed professional to perform work on your home.  He should be licensed in the state where you live. I have a license that my state sent me when I applied and registered.  I renew yearly for my state license.  I can copy it and show it to homeowners but a piece of paper may not mean much to some homeowners.  It would be better to go directly to a source to obtain that information.  Many states have websites that you can go to for information to find out if a contractor is licensed. 

Electrical Contractor: Professional vs. Handyman

When you have a problem, do you call a professional or a handyman?  A handyman may not always be cheaper.  I had a lady call me (an electrician) to hook up a new TV.  She needed a receptacle for a TV that she wanted placed high on a wall in a bedroom and also install cable to it.  She told me last time she had a cable guy just come and drill a hole through the wall.  I told her I am a licensed professional and can’t just drill a hole through the wall and stick wires in. I am a professional.  I am licensed, insured and I am responsible for my work.