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One of the most important systems in your home, though it's hidden beneath your feet and over your head, may be wasting a lot of your energy dollars. Your home's duct system, a branching network of tubes in the walls, floors, and ceilings, carries the air from your home's furnace and central air conditioner to each room. Unfortunately, many duct systems are poorly insulated or not insulated properly. This is where Sustainable Services can help! Ducts that leak heated air into unheated spaces can add hundreds of dollars a year to your heating and cooling bills.

An average household dedicates 11% of its energy budget to lighting. Using new lighting technologies can reduce lighting energy use in your home by 50% to 75%. Using compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) provide you about 75% savings. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) use only 20-25% of the energy and last up to 25 times longer than traditional incandescent bulbs. It's easy to get lost in the abundant lighting choices that are now available. The lighting professionals at Sustainable Services can help determine what the best efficiency bulb is for your home.

Depending on the type of business you operate, lighting accounts for 20% to 50% of electricity consumption. This means that significant cost savings can be achieved with energy efficiency improvements, and due to continually improving equipment, lighting usually provides the highest return-on-investment of major upgrades (Source U.S. Small Business Administration). Sustainable Services offers a wide variety of energy efficiency lighting services whether you want to trim your office lighting, make the warehouse brighter, or update your hold, inefficient lighting.

Unless your home was specifically constructed for energy efficiency, you can usually reduce your energy bills by adding more insulation. Only 20% of homes built before 1980 are well insulated. Insulation will provide resistance to heat flow the more heat flow resistance your insulation provides, the lower your heating and cooling costs. Adding insulation in the areas shown may be the best way to improve your home's energy efficiency. Insulate either the attic floor or under the roof. Insulation is measured in R-value - the higher your R-value, the better your walls and roof will resist the transfers of heat.

Air sealing is one of the most significant energy efficiency improvements you can make to your home. Air infiltration occurs when outside air enters a house uncontrollably through cracks and openings. Properly air sealing such cracks and openings in your home can significantly reduce heating and cooling costs, improve building durability, and create a healthier indoor environment. As an energy services company, Sustainable Services specializes in meeting all of your home weatherization needs. 1. Dropped ceiling 2. Recessed light 3. Attic entrance 4. Sill plates 5. Water & furnace flues 6.

Solar/PV (photovoltaics) is a type of renewable energy technology that is capable of converting the sun's light into electrical current. In a grid-tie system, the electricity produced by these systems in integrated into your electrical system to reduce the amount of electricity you need to purchase from your local utility. The amount of power generated by a solar system at a particular site depends on how much of the sun's energy reaches it. Thus, PV systems function most efficiently in the southwestern United States, which receives the greatest amount of solar energy.

A residential solar PV system enables a homeowner to generate and offset their daily electrical energy demand. The house remains connected to the electric utility grid at all times, so any power required above what the solar system can produce is simply drawn from the utility. Sustainable Services helps you determine what size solar system is best for your desired offset while staying within your budget restraints and maximizing your return on investment. The cost of installing solar PV is the lowest it's ever been and we take pride in designing and installing solar PV systems that are good investments for our customers.

Solar power is the answer for any business looking to reduce its operating costs while promoting a greener image. You will be making a socially responsible and environmentally aware decision that will increase the value of your building and decrease your carbon footprint. Also, due to the generous incentives offered by the federal government and local utilities, solar power system scan offer a fast return on your investment, saving your business more money in the long run. Sustainable Services is the only locally owned and operated energy services company in the Ark-La-Tex region.