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In the modern financial and political environment, landlords are struggling to adhere to the ever changing government regulations and the demands of tenants. Getting hold of more environmentally conscious ways to heat your buildings can be a big challenge.

We’ve all heard about the latest advances in wind technology and the great strides that are now being made in that area, but allow me to introduce you to solar heating tubes: the alternative green energy source. There is no better, or more untapped, source of green energy than the sun. Every day, 365 days per year The sun gives us energy in the form of light and heat throughout the year. Unfortunately most of the energy it supplies goes unused, while we continue to burn polluting and rapidly disappearing fossil fuels. Things will only get worse if we continue to rely on fossil fuels, and it’s time to embrace an environmentally favorable approach to supplying our energy needs, while many world governments are offering financial incentives.

Employing solar heating tubes to produce green energy provides several advantages, both to landlords and their tenants. Based on the amount of hot water is used in the building, the savings can be considerable, even if solar power is used only to heat the building’s water. Obviously, buildings with differing purposes use massively different quantities of hot water, but hot water is used for one reason or another in just about every building, whether it’s tenants taking baths, doing their laundry, washing dishes, or even just washing their hands. Lots of buildings also use radiant heat, using coils of heated water beneath the flooring to heat the whole building. If your buildings are heated in this way, you will be able to take even greater advantage of the energy cost savings by cutting deep into your oil, gas, and electrical use to heat your buildings.

In places like New York solar energy has always been regarded as ineffective as the weather is changeable and there is often not enough direct sunlight for solar panels to be effective. Solar heating tubes, on the other hand, work differently and are able to capture much more sunlight. The cylindrical shape of the receptors allows the receiving unit to harvest the sun’s energy throughout the day, because the sunlight will reach the surface of the cylinder during all daylight hours, as opposed to flat solar panels, which require direct sunlight to work effectively. The energy collected is then stored in copper rods and the tubes are vacuum sealed, providing perfect insulation and allowing almost none of the energy to escape. The tubes are so well insulated that the outside of the tubes are usually relatively cool while the temperature of the rods storing the solar power can reach well over 300 degrees Fahrenheit. The combination of these two recent advances in solar technology enables landlords to utilize solar energy even in colder climates. If you are a landlord in New York green energy is now within your grasp.

This is one green technology that you would be a fool not to use. Installing solar heating tubes in your residences won’t just reduce your carbon footprint and help save the planet, but it also has the potential to leave a lot of extra green in your bank account. When you look at it that way, it’s awfully hard to think of a good reason not to use solar heating tubes.

Craig Axelrod is a partner for Emmy Energy, a LI solar power system business delivering solar heating tube systems solar electric panels & green systems throughout the North East.