One of the best features of passive solar design is that it costs little extra, if anything, and it can cut your heating costs in half. It also can greatly improve the comfort of your home. Imagine the winter pleasures of curling up to read in a bright sunny spot and you have a sense of the benefits of passive solar and natural daylighting. In the summer, your home's design features can shade the sun and create natural airflows to keep you cool. As you plan your next remodeling or building project, learn about passive solar design and talk to designers and architects with experience in this field.
Rebates ease the costs for solar pioneers.
These rebates are offered in a public-private partnership of the Governor's Office of Energy Management and Conservation and the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association. Cutting electricity use cuts pollution. For each unit of power plant electricity you can cut, you are cutting more than three units of energy at the source. This is three units of pollution, too. If you replace an old refrigerator with a new one, its energy efficiency could save you its entire cost in less than 10 years.