The Power Guides For Alternative Energy

Wood Pellet and Corn Burners / Stoves and Furnaces

With the ever increasing cost of heating our homes, check out our alternative heating options which includes wood pellet, corn and wood burning stoves and furnaces, including the advantages and disadvantages of using wood, pellet and corn burners in your home. We have also provided links directly to manufacturers together with an example of the types of burners / stoves they make. Always remember installation can be a significant part of the cost when buying alternative energy products, so ask for this information when obtaining quotations.

Solar Energy An Alternative Solution

Solar energy provides one of the fastest growing opportunities for the home owner to break away from their reliance on external suppliers of energy for the home. The rate of improvements in the technology through more efficient photo voltaic cells and the reduction in costs through better manufacturing processes creating solar panels that not only are significantly more efficient, but also easier to install and maintain. Solar power can be used for simple tasks like the solar lamps for your garden to the new generation of solar power stations in desert areas, but the great breakthrough in technology, price and efficiency has now bought solar energy as a viable option for homes. Currently the installation of solar energy power options for your home requires fully trained staff and experts in the field, so finding and installing solar can be an expensive part of your costs, so research on the product options and installation costs is required.

Solar Energy Equipment Leasing

The cost of purchase, installation and maintenance can become quite expensive, so the fastest growing use is through leasing agreements where the solar energy alternatives are leased providing a cheaper alternative for energy usage than a traditional utility supplier

Solar Energy Utilities

As the solar industry matures and the technology continues to improve, we may well see a new generation of power utility companies emerge where the equipment to provide power is located at the consumers home, but the investment, installation, support and maintenance is made by this new generation of Utility Suplliers.

About The Power Guides

As part of putting together this information we have tried to provide the advantages and disadvantages of each technology including setting realistic expectations not sales talk. We have also added what we believe are the most important questions to ask sales staff and provide you with an understanding of the technology, costs and likely return on investment

Some of these technologies are well established and the number of local companies selling and installing the technology is significant, but in other technologies a manufacturer may only have one local company in each state.

As part of creating each section we try to explain the technology used in lay mans terms and although it may not be scientifically detailed, we have tried to make it understandable.

The small graphics at each side provide an indication of some of the manufacturers included in our guides.

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