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Why Generate Your Own Energy

Why generate your own energy

Renewable energy technologies such as solar panels, wind turbines, and biomass heaters are becoming increasingly popular.

These are effective alternatives to fossil fuels and will help you to meet your own energy requirements and reduce your home's carbon dioxide emissions. The following are just some of the reasons why you would want to generate your own energy:

Significantly Reduce Your Energy Bills

Sustainable energy technologies can provide low cost or free energy in the case of technologies that use the sun or wind to power them. For example, a wind turbine, with the correct location and a turbine system that is sized correctly according to your power requirements, you can expect to save between 25 - 30% off your electricity annually. If you were A well designed solar thermal system will provide 100% of a households hot water during the summer months and deliver an annual average contribution of approximately 70%. Replacing an oil fired boiler with a biomass boiler you can expect to cut your fuel bill in half.

If you were to install a wind turbine or Solar PV array and you were producing more electricity than you require, the excess can be sold back onto the National Grid using an export meter.

Reduce Your Impact On The Environment

With almost 40% of all UK carbon emissions coming from 24 million dwellings in the UK there are many opportunities to help reduce these emissions. Fossil fuel use has a particular detrimental effect to the environment as when these fuels are burned, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere contributing significantly to global warming. By generating your own energy using the technologies that Green Energy Doctor recommends, you will substantially reduce your carbon footprint.

Lower Maintenance Cost

Most of the renewable and sustainable systems are is proven and established technology, particularly solar panels, heat pumps and wind turbines. With solar panels there are no moving parts and as such there is very little that can go wrong with them, which means that maintenance costs are kept to a minimum. Heat pumps are effectively fridges that are working in reverse, just like fridges they do not need an annual service.

Reduce Your Dependency On Fossil Fuel Imports:

By generating your own energy you become less dependent to future price fluctuations as a result of fossil fuel supply. You also remove the exposure to potential energy shortages in the future.