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For a long time on this blog we have been talking about the financial implications of using solar panels for your daily energy needs. As a side note we also sometimes talk about what devastating impact the conventional sources of energy are making on our environment. “Side note” because, unfortunately and tragically, when it comes to worrying about the environment and the purity of the air that we breathe and the food that we eat and the water that we drink, we keep sweeping the issue under the carpet unless the water is over our noses.

We forget, or choose to ignore, what sort of world we are going to leave for our children and their children.  If we don’t take constructive measures right now our children will resent us forever, if they are able to survive the neglect we wrought upon the only planet we’ve got.

At Sungate Energy Solutions we not just do the business of providing solar energy solutions to our customers we also try to educate them and sensitize them towards the need for cleaner and renewable energy sources. You may think that it is good for our business if more and more people by solar panels and of course it is good since we are into this business, but that’s simply because  we are into “right” business.  The pioneers in this field are going to make a significant contribution towards the well-being of the planet.

When you stop using power generated from fossil fuels less oxygen and other toxic gases are released into the atmosphere. Do you know that approximately 667,000 school-age kids have been diagnosed with asthma (source: http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/asthma/asthma.htm) and most of these cases are due to air pollution?  The problem has attained epidemic proportions and it is mostly left neglected because the symptoms are not very drastic (we’re not talking about people who actually have asthma).  And this is just one single problem.  Many new mutations are occurring due to air and water. Millions of children around the world are growing up carrying around poisonous residues inside their bodies with alarming ramifications.

Of course these problems cannot be solved in a single day but Sungate Energy Solutions is surely playing an important role by formulating a business model around this urgent need: installing devices that derive energy from the sun. You can also become a part of this revolutionary shift towards healthier and renewable alternative.  Contact us today to know more about how you can make a big difference in what sort of world your children and their children are going to inherit.

Phoenix, Arizona is one of the hottest cities in the United States but it doesn’t mean you need to go bankrupt trying to keep your interiors — your homes as well as business establishments — cooler and comfortable.  The hotter it is outside, the harder your air-conditioner needs to work.  No wonder, people in Phoenix, Arizona spend a considerable amount of money paying their utility bills.  Sungate Energy Solutions aims to change that.

No, we’re not aiming at changing the climate of your beloved state or city.  We are simply providing you an alternative way of getting power, by turning a disadvantage into an advantage.

Do you get lots of sun?  No problem! Let us change this into a never-ending source of energy.  Photovoltaic solar panels from Sungate Energy Solutions can reduce your utility bills to practically zero once you have covered the initial installation cost.

Photovoltaic means converting light into energy/electricity.  This further means your solar panels simply need exposure to light and you don’t need uninterrupted sunshine upon them.  But, having lots of sun means your solar panels get lots of light and hence they can produce lots of electricity.  This will not only save you money it may also help you earn money.  Currently you might be getting your power supply from the main grid. Once you start producing your electricity through your solar panels you may start supplying power to the grid instead of deriving from it.

But that’s not the immediate goal.  The immediate goal is to meet almost all of your energy demands indigenously while reducing your dependence on conventional energy sources to a great extent.  Current technology can help you reduce your conventional energy consumption by almost 70-80%.

You can further optimize consumption by insulating your doors and windows (incidentally, Sungate Energy Solutions provides cutting-edge insulation services too). Our solar panels can be installed on your rooftops as well as open land around your house or business establishment.

If you’re living in Phoenix, Arizona you may get lots of tax benefits and added financial assistance from federal and private agencies trying to promote renewable energy usage throughout the state.  Normally it takes 3-4 years to recover the costs but given the conditions in Arizona you may recover your costs even earlier.

Photovoltaic solar panels from Sungate Energy Solutions are totally non-intrusive.  They easily blend into your current external design while providing uninterrupted electricity for almost all of your appliances.  Contact us for more detailed information.

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.

This is the second in the series of 5 articles dealing with the solar industry, authored by journalist/entrepreneur/sustainable energy specialist, Carl Martens.

Right, we’ve all heard the cliché, “Timing is everything”…entirely too many times. How about changing that to “Timing is Mandatory.” It’s mandatory in the solar and sustainable energy industry due to the current insane state of affairs challenging our country/planet – and amazingly coinciding with the timing of the latest developments in solar advancement and awareness. Look what’s happening around the world. You’d have to be a member of the ‘walking dead’ not to be aware of the huge challenges facing our environment, on a global level. The BP debacle in the golf; our smog polluted cities; dangerous levels of chemicals and pollutants in water and the foods we eat. In most cases it’s getting worse, not better. OK, motor vehicle emissions have been cleaned up a bit, but that’s the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Iceberg? They’re disappearing you know – along with drowning polar bears – but that’s a whole other story…later…

So how does timing enter this discussion?

It’s time to find alternative power supplies – and fast. Oil dependency must cease. Coal and natural gas powered electric generation plants must be cleaned up or shut down. You’ve heard all this before. I know you have. But, for various reasons – many politically motivated – the transition is painfully slow. Like watching an oil drenched tortoise crawling painfully out of the muck…

Here’s where the timing comes in. We – individually – collectively – as citizens of the United States – as homeowners – have an unprecedented opportunity…something I would label as “Mandatory Timing!”…which will unlikely occur as propitiously again. Very simply, we really can all make a difference and there isn’t a better time to be proactive than now. It’s as if all the “energy gods” were convening at the same time – offering us something on a silver platter. Will we see it and take advantage of it?

Solar Power – or as the industry accurately refers to it as Photovoltaic (PV) Solar – has been in the development stage for decades. And you know, I do believe they’ve finally got it right. It was lead by a company we’re all familiar with – Sharp – having launched its first satellite in 1962 with solar panels (not able to generate all that much power with 40 watts, but still floating around up there somewhere and actually still functioning). Now, the new Sharp panel (one of the most advanced solar panels available), is generating well over 200 watts per panel – and is used extensively in residential applications. That’s as in “my house”…and “your house”…and “your neighbor’s house.”

Granted, there are some homes on which solar will not function, due to too much tree shade, or a totally North facing roof. However, it’s quite amazing how creative the professional solar contractor can be when challenged with other than optimum conditions. Please, do not pre-judge before contacting one. There are usually solutions, as long as the desire to play your part in this life-threatening drama is strong. It has to be, or we’ll sink back into the complacency of yesterday, and who’s going to suffer? Our kids, our grand kids, future generations.

One other timing factor is helpful. Uncle Sam actually wants to support your efforts to become more energy independent. He’s currently willing to give you a 30% tax credit – with no ceiling – for any PV solar installation. How does that work? It’s not merely a deduction on your tax return; it’s actually a dollar for dollar credit on your taxes. If you pay $10,000 in federal taxes – and 30% of the total solar job amounts to $9,000, you’ll be getting back that $9,000 when you file next year. These programs have limitations and (again) timing is everything. There are usually other financial incentives as well – like utility company rebates. Give Sungate a call and be certain to ask lots of questions. Our Energy Specialists are well trained and versed in all matters that can help save you money and provide cost effective renewable energy for your home.

Call, toll-free, 1 (888) 9 Sungate today!

We’ve got financial incentives, superb solar technologies, (many guaranteed for 25 years minimum), and the need for clean energy, NOW. I’d say that amounts to perfect timing. And ALL THE PLAYERS ARE READY!!!! Are you?

The next in the series of five articles will delve into “what really happens when you add solar to your home.” So, until next time – remember, the sun is our friend…and please, turn out the lights when they’re not in use.