Going green has become a top option for homeowners and businesses across the globe as the rapidly increasing climate crisis has become an impending concern.
While changing certain aspects of your daily life, such as avoiding products that contain harmful chemicals and opting out of purchasing plastic bags and straws mention a few ways that you can reduce your carbon footprint, drastic changes to the way you power your home can massively reduce damage to the environment.
Here are a few effective options to power your home without harming the environment and enjoy significant savings as a result.
Powering Your House Without Affecting the Environment
1. Using HVO Fuel
HVO fuel (hydrotreated vegetable oil fuel) is the perfect alternative to the harmful fossil fuels that are affecting the environment.
Homeowners that are making a slow transition into a green lifestyle should consider using HVO fuel to power home generators during power outages.
However, using a generator to keep your home powered by biofuels is also a notable solution when relying fully on renewable energy sources.
If you are making use of solar power, it would be wise to have a generator as a backup power solution for situations when solar power is not available and you can’t power your home, such as bouts of bad weather.
2. Solar Power
Installing solar panels will require a large initial investment, although it would be wiser to start with a smaller installation such as a solar geyser. Using solar power to generate clean electricity for your home, can drastically reduce your energy bill while contributing to a healthier planet.
However, using solar power is only a realistic solution for homeowners living in regions with plenty of sunlight all year long. You would also be able to take advantage of certain tax benefits by installing solar panels to partially or fully power your property with clean energy.
3. Wind Power
Another solution to power your home with clean energy is to use wind power that works well for people living in windy regions. Installing a wind turbine could be quite pricey initially, and you will need to determine specifics regarding local regulations as these systems can be quite noisy.
Although, in the event that you are permitted to install wind turbines on your property, you would be able to enjoy a drastically reduced electric bill because the wind can blow all day long (not only during the day), which means that your wind turbine will generate electricity 24/7.
4. Hydropower
Hydropower is also a renewable form of energy that will be reliant on the specifics of your location. You will need to be located near a body of flowing water to be able to take advantage of the kinetic energy of the flowing water to power your home. Hydropower is produced by redirecting a stream of water through a turbine to generate renewable energy.
Even though hydropower is one of the less commonly used forms of renewable energy, homeowners can effectively power their homes entirely on power generated from flowing water.
5. Green Driving Solutions
While you power your home with conventional energy you are affecting the environment, but when you use a conventional vehicle (using diesel or gasoline), you have the largest impact on the planet (the carbon footprint of a conventional vehicle is much higher than the carbon footprint of your household), so your next major concern should be how you travel from one place to another.
With electric and hybrid vehicles taking over the market, it would be wiser to consider investing in a vehicle that offers you guilt-free driving.
As with solar power usage, you would be able to benefit from tax advantages simply by driving a vehicle that does not harm the environment.
