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We’ve known for some time now that using solar energy to reduce our dependence on our utility companies was a great way to help the environment. But many people have continued to be “on the fence” about whether or not it was really a good financial investment, since solar energy systems do have some significant upfront costs.

But, solar energy systems have also just gotten the nod from the financial experts, too. A report in the September 7, 2010 Healthy Financial Habits online news letter says that between the fact that they are a long term investment and the energy tax credit you’ll receive from the federal, and possibly your state, government, solar energy solutions are indeed a sound financial decision.

That’s why the solar energy experts at Sungate Energy Solutions are working so hard to get consumers up and running on their solar energy systems, including solar hot water systems for your home and your swimming pool, and for converting your other home energy needs to solar to reduce your dependence on the local utilities.

The government’s tax credits run through 2016 on solar energy systems. Some states also offer tax credits, though their expiration dates don’t necessarily coincide with those of the federal government.

Now that you have the peace of mind that you’re making a good financial decision when you install a solar energy system for your home, it’s time to make that call to Sungate Energy Solutions. Choosing a company like Sungate that specializes in solutions that make homes more environmentally friendly and energy efficient ensures that your money is well spent and that all your needs are met. Sungate’s engineers are highly trained in design and installation of solar energy systems, solar hot water systems and lots of other home improvements. Check us out – and make a great financial investment in your home.

OK you must have been reading a lot about “clean energy” on this blog, on other websites, in print media and hearing about it a lot in the electronic media.  Some even call it a conspiracy to throttle growth.  People in the lesser developed countries point fingers at the developed countries that it were they who messed up with the resources and now want to shove cleaner energy conventions down our throats.

Even the oil companies and bigger corporations carry out extensive research and publish white papers to rubbish the claims of the environmental groups and scientists that claim that we are rapidly heading towards an ecological and environmental disaster.  Whom do you believe, and what exactly is clean energy?

Clean energy constitutes of both concept and technology, and of course, science.  The energy that we use to run our electrical appliances, factories and transport is a byproduct of some chemical reactions, triggered by some other chemical or physical forces carried by the organizations that sell power and fuel.  These reactions and forces produce lots of gases and particulate matters.  These in turn are choking up the atmosphere and ecosystems both on land and under water.  This is rapidly warming up the globe causing global warming and global warming is causing climatic aberrations that we have all seen recently in the form of flash floods, inexplicable droughts and sudden storms and hurricanes.

The polar ice caps are melting fast and the sea levels are rising.  Many coastal cities and island nations are predicted to get submerged under the rising tides as early as within the next 50 years.  Major glaciers — that have been a constant source of clean drinking water — are drying up across the globe.  This is all due to the power that we use to run our contemporary world.

Sungate Energy Solutions and many other companies are trying to change that by providing a clean energy option to power consumers.  “Clean energy” means energy that does not pollute the atmosphere because it doesn’t burn carbon fuels.  Sungate Energy Solutions provides photovoltaic solar panels that produce electricity from light.  Clean energy does not just mean getting energy from the sun.  Many organizations are trying to tap into the potential of wind energy, geothermal energy and tidal waves. Even biomass can be used to produce “less unclean” energy but ever since farmers started growing more “for fuel” crops compared to food crops this process isn’t encouraged much both by governments as well as citizens.

All these technologies are very promising and almost all of them cause zero pollution.  And the good thing about all of them is that aside from being totally clean they are also comparatively cheaper compared to fuel-based energy production.  Once the infrastructure is installed, for instance, once you have installed the photovoltaic solar panels from Sungate Energy Solutions, the energy that you get is totally free because you’re getting it from the sun and what we heard the last time the sun doesn’t charge money to give us its power. But then, here we are talking about clean energy.

So should you adopt clean energy to meet your daily energy needs?  This is a decision you have to make.  Right now there is no law that forces you to use the solar energy or wind energy but there are surely attractive incentives to encourage you to use clean energy resources.  Various state and environmental agencies provide financial support to people who show interest in installing solar panels.  You also get multiple tax benefits if you switch over to solar energy or wind energy. But the greatest incentive is that you are helping your neighborhood to move towards a healthier and cleaner environment. And your children will inherit a cleaner, healthier world from you.

Sungate Energy Solutions brings you the easiest way of getting hot water whenever you need it, and that too, without burning a hole into your pocket. We are talking about tankless water heaters that are powered by solar energy.

It is a big nag when you run out of hot water at a crucial moment.  This is because your hot water is stored in a tank and it can can only hold a finite amount of water and after that you simply start getting cold water.  An on-demand hot water system on the other hand heats up water for you on the go so that you get as much hot water as you need.

On-demand hot water system also helps you optimize your energy usage because only that much hot water is generated as you need.  In the conventional water heating system the water is heated up even when you don’t need it wasting lots of precious energy.

Sungate Energy Solutions can install on-demand hot water systems at various point-of-use locations or for the whole house: it depends upon your requirement.  Point-of-use on-demand hot water systems are installed exactly where hot water would be required, for instance, the washbasin or the shower or any other location where you specifically need hot water.  A single unit can be installed from where hot water can be supplied to the entire household all business premises.

There is no danger of getting excessively hot water because you can set your own limits of temperature.  The system simply uses the light from the sun to generate electricity needed to heat up the water. You don’t need bright sun (of course this may help) because instead of using direct sun rays the on-demand water heating systems use light from their surroundings and then convert that light into electricity.  So you don’t have to worry about not getting enough sun.  Some people may face problem during night but considering the amount of money you are going to save and the contribution you’re going to make towards keeping your environment clean, you can slightly modify the way you use hot water so that you can use it during daytime or even evening time when you have some amount of light in the atmosphere.

The on-demand hot water systems from Sungate Energy Solutions will help you not only reduce your utility bills but will also improve the way you use and enjoy hot water.  First of all, you are never going to run out of hot water when you have got soap all over your body. Secondly, you conserve energy by not needlessly having to store hot water into a tank (while the stored water keeps on losing heat, consequently wasting power and energy).

Need to know more about how you can save money and reduce your garden footprint as well by switching over to an on-demand hot water system?  Give us a call today and one of our helpful representatives will give you the needed information.

What better place would it be to think of our future generations than Orange County, California?  Hundreds of thousands of children flock to the county to visit Disneyland.  They remind us how fragile and precious our planet is and how relentlessly we have to pursue the dream of a power source that is renewable and has no adverse effect on the environment.

That is why Sungate Energy Solutions is so excited about introducing its wide range of solar power products to the citizens of Orange County, California.

Solar power, as is evident from the expression, is derived from the sun, and California has plenty of it.  Of course it also means lots of power consumption in terms of using air-conditioners and refrigerators. Our photovoltaic solar panels and windows insulation solutions can drastically bring down your conventional energy consumption derived from fuel and coal.

Once installed on your rooftop or in the surrounding area the solar panels start using the light present in the atmosphere to produce electricity. You can use this electricity to run almost every gadget and appliance present at your home or at work.  They provide you non-stop electricity at a marginal cost that gradually moves towards zero. You don’t always need bright sun in order to get electricity as the panels basically convert light into energy and that light can be derived from any source, even if the rays of the sun are not directly falling upon the photovoltaic panels.

Does the cost of installing photovoltaic solar panels seem prohibitive?  It is a one-time cost, of course and you can recover it within a few years, depending upon the type of solution you go for.  In order to encourage renewable energy consumption various government and non-government agencies provide financial assistance to those who show interest in switching over to nonpolluting energy sources.  After the one-time investment you simply get your power from the sun instead of the grid. You don’t run a recurring cost no matter what is your energy consumption.  So unlike the electricity that you get from the grid your energy cost does not go up as you use more and more devices that use electricity.

Although savings are a big incentive you can make a significant impact towards creating a healthier living environment and setting an example for your neighborhood.  Even if you can easily afford conventional electricity switching over to solar panels will help you considerably reduce your carbon footprints.  Millions of tons of carbon dioxide and other toxic gases are released into the atmosphere in order to generate electricity that we so casually use. At Sungate Energy Solutions we don’t suggest that you stop using your electronic devices — use them to your heart’s content but run them with power that doesn’t put strain on the environment and doesn’t destroy our ecology.

Contact us today for more details.

Solar Power San Diego: What a rich heritage solar has in San Diego.

San Diego, California is blessed with copious sunshine.  In fact it is one of the brightest regions in the United States and you will be pleasantly surprised to know that San Diego is the top solar power producer in the country.  This is one of the primary reasons why Sungate Energy Solutions chose California in general and San Diego in particular to establish its solar energy enterprise.

Although the sun doesn’t need to shine extremely bright in order to enable the photovoltaic solar panels to generate electricity, it does help if the region gets good amount of sun.  Fortunately, San Diego, California is one of such places.  And it is not just the sunshine that may encourage you to switch to solar energy from conventional energy sources: federal incentives pay up to 30% of the one-time installation cost through a tax credit program that is very attractive.

Sungate Energy Solutions can install solar panels and water heating equipment at your home or business establishment as soon as you give us a call or contact us.  Our solar panels and solar equipments are highly efficient and they will bring down your utility bills by 70-80% with a large enough system array.  A large solar panel array, once you have installed,  creates a situation where the solar panels can product most of your electricity.  The remaining electricity can be derived from your conventional electricity connection.

Installing solar panels also increases your property value.  A recent study has revealed that installing energy efficient and energy-saving devices can increase the value of your property by a whopping 15-20%.

Sungate Energy Solutions believes that among the developed regions of the world California is one of the best places to tap into the massive potential of the sun. The technology not only saves you money it also helps you reduce your carbon footprint.  Millions of tons of greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere as we incessantly use power at homes, industries, businesses and in transport.  A significant proportion of this onslaught can be curbed by using renewable and clean power generation, such as solar power.

Sungate Energy Solutions provides customizable solar panels that can be installed on rooftops, poles, backyards and open fields.  The only condition is that they should get lots of light.  Our solar panels come with a great warranty as well.

Renewable energy means deriving energy from resources that are not going to deplete with ongoing usage. The big problem with conventional energy sources is that the more you use them the less they are going to last. For instance, all the energy that you’re getting for your home or business establishment is generated by burning fossil fuels. A small percentage of energy is produced by nuclear technology but it is very costly and we have not been able to ascertain exactly how much benefit they carry in terms of reliability and risk.

Solar energy, on the other hand is infinitely renewable and no matter how much we use it we are never going to run out of it. Another great advantage of using solar energy is that it produces zero pollution. Fossil fuels on the other hand generate massive amounts of greenhouse gases that are released into the atmosphere with alarming speed. This is the reason why Sungate Energy Solutions is investing so much time and money into developing devices and technologies that can tap into the potential of the sun and create an infrastructure that can go on producing energy for you, literally, forever.

Whether you use coal or petrol the world is soon going to run out of them. We may use them for another 30-40 years or even less but after that we definitely need some other energy sources. Even if you use hydroelectricity water is rapidly becoming a scarce commodity with the population of the world increasing in leaps and bounds. Sungate Energy Solutions is heavily focusing on developing and promoting technologies that depend less on resources that are depleting and more on renewable and affordable resources.

Photovoltaic solar panels not only produce energy with the help of an endless source (the sun) it also saves you lots of money. There is no recurring production cost when your solar panels absorb light and produce energy in return. The light is everywhere around you and nobody can claim to produce it or dig it out — it is just there because the sun is constantly sending it to us. The light is constantly being renewed and hence it is called a renewable energy sources. The only cost you have to bear is the installation cost. But this too is so heavily subsidized by the government (in order to promote renewable energy usage among the residence of the United States) and you can recover your costs within 2-3 years. Even this installation cost is rapidly coming down as the technology improves further.

Just by making very small lifestyle changes you can make a big impact on the way we leave this planet for our future generations. Start adopting renewable energy methods and put a cap on the amount of carbon dioxide and other poisonous gases we constantly produced in order to get energy. Call Sungate Energy Solutions and be a part of the new generation revolution.

Whether life on this planet is in peril due to global warming is an opinion that varies according to what camp you belong to but if you’re looking for signs that should worry you, you will find thousands of them, the latest being an unprecedented heat wave in Russia causing devastating forest fires and killing 700 persons every day due to the smoke. Of course you can dig out various “natural reasons” for such anomalies but weathers and climates going astray, inexplicable draughts and floods, rapidly vanishing biodiversity and disappearing forests, melting glaciers and breaking ice masses at the polar ice caps are screaming indications that something not very pleasant and safe is happening with our planet — so far the only place we have.

But the good news is that salvation is still possible. We just have to make small changes and adjustments and our future generations will be thankful for them. Both individuals, and high-tech organizations like Sungate Energy Solutions are strenuously pursuing innovations that can produce lasting clean energy sources and devising ways and changes people can help preserve the fragile life on earth.

One of such revolutionary change can be changing the way you get power. Right now millions of tons of fossil fuel is continuously burned to generate power for families, businesses, transport and industries. The conventional form of producing and consuming energy causes double damage — you are using resources that are depleting with great speed and putting lots of stress on the ecology and the environment and you are pumping into the atmosphere millions of tons of greenhouse gases everyday and heating up the earth.

This is a monumental tragedy first, because it can be catastrophic within a few decades and second, it can be so easily avoided. Take for instance reducing your energy consumption from conventional sources; all you have to do is install solar panels and heating devices powered by the sun.

Sungate Energy Solutions provides cutting-edge solar energy technology that can produce up to 70% of your energy needs and this means once you have installed the solar panels on your roof you can reduce your consumption of conventional energy by 70% and this is a significant proportion. Since the current technological advances cannot provide you 100% energy you are still connected to your main power lines so that whenever you need more energy you can obtain it from your old connection: it happens automatically and you don’t have to do anything.

Not sure what sort of rooftop panels your household or business establishment would require? Just give us a call and our engineers from Sungate Energy Solutions will promptly pay you a visit and conduct an assessment and afterwards present you an appropriate solar energy solution.

You don’t buy this global warming “fear mongering”? Even if that’s the case just think how much money you can save by relying on the sun rather than the conventional energy sources powered by coal and petroleum. Installing solar panels is just a one-time cost and there too you get heavy subsidy from the government. Even according to conservative estimates you can recover your initial cost in just three years. After you have recovered your installation cost you get your energy — most of it — for free. You may have to bear some maintenance cost but that’s negligible compared to what you save.

Whatever you believe in, getting rooftop solar panels is anyway a win-win decision; whether its global warming or mounting energy costs you benefit in both the cases.

As they say money saved is money earned. Insulated windows from Sungate Energy Solutions can help you drastically reduce your energy costs by maintaining a favorable level of temperature inside your premises.

Your heating and cooling devices need to work extra hard when your windows and other ventilation points are not properly insulated. Insulation prevents the inside air from going outside and outside air from coming inside. In winter the outside air is cold and the air inside your house is warm. If the insulation is not properly done the warm air from inside escapes and in order to maintain an acceptable degree of temperature your heating system has to employ more power. Similarly during warm weather your cooling system may have to work harder if all the time it has to cool the warm air coming from outside through the faulty insulation.

And it is not just your windows and ventilation points from where the heat or the coolness is escaping. The favorable temperature can also escape from your ceiling and walls so they also need to be well-insulated.

Highly efficient insulation systems from Sungate Energy Solutions can reduce your cooling and heating costs by as much as 40%. Considering that an average US household spends around 44% of the total amount of energy spent on heating and cooling, this can certainly make a big difference. Our double insulation systems are highly effective, affordable and nonintrusive. They can be easily installed from the inside without breaking or modifying anything. They completely blend with your interiors and enhance the beauty of your Windows. The strong insulation keeps dust, noise and above all the unfavorable temperature out.

Wondering what type of insulation is good for your house or office? Sungate Energy Solutions provides free consulting – we can assess your insulation requirement and suggest a solution accordingly. We will carefully study your existing heating or cooling system and then carry out insulation that is completely tailored to your requirement. Our insulation solutions are highly affordable, easy to install and easy to maintain. We can carry out window installations for all sizes and inclinations. Double and triple paneling not only helps you keep bad weather out it also makes your window glasses stronger.

Quality window insulation saves you a significant amount of money and helps you curtail your fossil-fuel consumption too. So much fossil fuel can be saved by simply optimizing the way we use it. It’s always prudent to keep abreast with the latest trends in the production of clean energy and adopt them, but conserving energy derived from conventional (often polluting) sources too can help you move your lifestyle towards a cleaner and less polluted environment.