Seacoast Energy Alternatives Inc.

Seacoast Energy Alternatives offers complete solar hot water systems tailored to the needs of New England homes and businesses. We have a skilled installation crew available to review your needs and install each system quickly and affordably.  

Most households will see a complete payback of the initial cost within 5 or 6 years. After that, you could be making all the hot water you need for free for 7-8 months of the year, and 40-60% during the winter months. Add value and longevity to your home. A typical solar hot water system could provide hot water up to and beyond 40 years. You may need to replace your existing heating system 3 times by then.

Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs

So what’s the big deal with cfls anyway.....
In order to understand that we first need to understand what’s wrong with conventional incandescent bulbs. The light bulbs we are all accustomed to use 10% of the electricity they consume to make light and 90% to make heat. So 90% of the power you pay for to run a light bulb is wasted. Compact fluorescents on the other hand are exactly the opposite, 90% light and 10% heat.

What this means is that it takes substantially less power to generate the same amount of light. For instance a 65 watt incandescent bulb can be replaced by a 15 watt cfl and still generate the same amount of light.