Energy Efficiency Upgrades

Solar Energy

While solar energy can add another power source to your home, it is not the only solution to reducing your energy bill. By decreasing the amount of energy you use, you can also reduce the amount of money you spend on your bill each month, and save lots of money over time.

The highest energy consumption in most homes, and therefore the biggest opportunity for improvement in reducing overall energy consumption, is in your heating and cooling systems. For this reason, it’s important to discuss what your current energy consumption rates look like, and how they could feasibly change with improvements to your heating and air conditioning systems, as well as adding sealant and caulking and/or other insulation upgrade measures, or even new windows and doors.

Smart Appliances

Smart appliances help you to monitor the amount of energy you use, and reduce it on command through online apps. Smart thermostats such as Nest and EcoBee not only help you to watch the temperature of your house fluctuate while you’re at work or on vacation, but also allows you to control or change your home temperature from anywhere in the world, and better track the data allowing you to curb your own heating/cooling habits.

Thus, we recommend the following upgrades to improve the energy efficiency of your home, in addition to going solar:

We’re living in the era of the smart home, however the term “Smart technology” implies an important distinction – that the appliance or electrical device can be controlled by an app, remotely. Each solution below highlights two important tenants to SUNTEX infrastructure – innovation and environmental efficiency. These types of installations may add to the sticker price of the system, however they can mitigate a your energy consumption, and thus also save you lots of money in the long run!

LED Lighting

Similar to smart thermostats, LED light bulbs allow you to reduce your energy consumption while reducing the cost of your overall energy bill. Over time, curbing your energy consumption habits or using more efficient tools like LED light bulbs saves you money and reduces your carbon footprint. While it’s only one piece of the puzzle, LED light bulbs can certainly help to mitigate rising energy costs saving you money in the long run. By taking a site survey of all current and desired lighting systems, SUNTEX is able to provide home owners with a quote for the total cost of upgrading to LED lighting and foreseen savings on your energy bill. While LED Lighting can really be found almost anywhere – grocery stores, hardware stores, or online – for smart lighting, please check out the following products by Philips: https://www.philips-hue.com/en-us/products/smart-lightbulbs. If you’re curious to learn more about how this works, feel free to read up on the ‘Hue Bridge’, here: https://www.philips-hue.com/en-us/p/hue-bridge/046677458478#overview. Once installed, our team is happy to assist in setting up the applications free of charge.

Smart Thermostats

Smart thermostats allow you to control the temperature in your home from anywhere you can access internet, and Nest products have become quite versatile since they were acquired by Google in 2014, adding new online apps and services to support it’s features. Their competitor, Ecobee, likewise has added a new suite of products within the Smart home industry, and have grown to include not only Smart thermostats but home security, speakers, and accessories as well. While you can now buy these Smart devices online, the installation is somewhat tricky, which is why customers prefer an expert to install them. To learn about the different Smart Thermostat products we offer, check out the links below:

Compare Nest Thermostats: https://store.google.com/us/magazine/compare_thermostats

Ecobee Thermostats: https://www.ecobee.com/en-us/