Posts belonging to Category 'Go Green'

Will My Electric Company Pay For My Solar Power?

Can you really make money by selling power back to the utility company? Federal law allows independent power producers to connect to the utility grid and requires utilities to purchase excess electricity.
Generally these utility companies issue credits to homeowners who manage to turn their meter backwards, paying full retail price. Once per year any [...]

Color Changing Roof Tiles Could Save Billions

A team of MIT graduates called Thermeleon have invented a color changing roof tile that reacts to ambient heat temperatures.
The tiles turn white when it’s hot, black when it’s cold. This allows your roof to absorb heat in the winter and reflect heat in the summer.
This simple [...]

Owens Corning Helps Your Roofer Go Green

Owen Corning, the largest manufacturer of roofing materials, said today it will be the first major roofing manufacturer to connect contractors with local recycling centers to environmentally dispose of shingles that thrown away after replacement.
Apparently there weren’t many facilities that could handle asphalt shingles, so Owens partnered up with Heritage Environmental Services to provide such [...]