Our Future is in Your Hands. HOME Photography Resource Guide Energy Awards Builders, architects and engineers have a unique opportunity to bring renewable energy to Colorado consumers. Residential and small commercial buildings can be designed with passive solar in mind, taking advantage of solar energy for heating but preventing overheating in summer by strategic use of overhangs and landscaping. Active solar collectors can be installed to heat water for residential buildings or for commercial buildings with large hot water needs. Commercial buildings can be designed for daylighting - the use of natural sunlight instead of electric lights.
Commercial buildings can also utilize transpired solar collectors for preheating ventilation air.
Solar or wind energy can be specified to provide electricity to commercial and residential buildings. This web site is designed to give you a brief summary of the opportunities for incorporating solar and wind energy into buildings in Colorado. It also contains a guide to the most current resource information and products available for designing and building with renewable energy. As our most natural and renewable energy source, the sun's heating energy can be utilized in many different areas of design. Some solar strategies must be incorporated at the earliest stages of design, others can be added later.