WHY YOU SHOULD INVEST IN GREEN HOMES

    Uncategorized / March 25, 2022

     

    Basic knowledge teaches to spend no more money than one has, that if you want a car, you should save enough to buy it on your own or you could not have it. If you couldn’t save enough, there’s no way you could spend.

    The desire to own a home is a priority to billions of people globally, but how many ever care to own a home that will pay them even while saving the planet from global warming? 

    With the increasing deterioration of the environment and continuous depletion of energy sources across the globe, renewable development such as Green Homes has become the ideal strategy for long-term human development. As urban development increases, a green building should be the idealist option for current and future homeowners.

    Building green homes is far more advantageous than we assume. It benefits an individual or a homeowner in the years ahead, whether it’s a net-zero or net-zero plus energy home, which we will explain as the discussion continues.

    WHAT IS A GREEN HOME?
    Throwing more light on the concept of a Green Home, this is a type of house designed to be environmentally friendly. These homes focus on the efficient use of recycled building materials, water, and sustainable energy sources like solar and geothermal systems.

     

    NET-ZERO ENERGY HOME
    Imagine living in a home where you produce the energy you consume, where you don’t rely on utility companies for power, a home termed net-zero energy home. In Ghana, consumer households spend over a million cedis on electricity, fuel, and gas in a lifetime. Such a considerable amount that does not even meet the value for your money considering power cuts and their disadvantages, despite the emissions produced from these energy sources and how much the never-ending population emits with our activities that damage our environments.

    Net-zero energy homes are buildings that consume zero energy yearly. Net-zero energy homes are built of materials that reduce emissions to zero as homeowners produce the energy they use. As basic knowledge teaches, these buildings use no more energy than they can generate.

    Another benefit of building a green home (net-zero energy home) is that installed geothermal heating, and cooling systems draw all the heat emitted and condense it into cool air that cools the home. Without an air conditioner, your home is cool day and night, even during hot weather conditions. When installed, solar power, another environmentally friendly energy source, gives all-year-round electricity, so you do not have to queue or pay enormous sums for electricity from utility companies for as long as you have solar power.

    Building an energy-efficient home does not only benefit the homeowner but the world at large due to the reduction of emissions from at least one home, saving the globe from warming in the least.

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    NET ZERO PLUS ENERGY HOME
    Amazingly, a green homeowner can even move another step into a net-zero plus energy home. A net-zero plus energy home produces excess energy than it uses. These buildings consume zero energy every year but advance to make extra energy to power other systems essential to daily life like cars, street lights, or even traffic lights.

    Having a net-zero plus energy home, as stated earlier, means that you will not just produce energy for the benefit of your home. Still, you will be able to give extra power to energy-powered machines that would have cost money without the presence of a net-zero plus energy home.

    WHAT PREVENTS YOU FROM BUILDING A GREEN HOME?

    The downside to building a Green Home is that upfront, the cost of the building might seem expensive. The idea of it might seem impossible to achieve by a low or even middle-income earner. Fortunately, organizations in Ghana and worldwide are ready to support home builders to create these energy-efficient homes. The long-term benefits outweigh every possible doubt.

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    WHY YOU SHOULD IN INVEST IN GREEN HOUSING
    One of the financial benefits of owning a green home is that, with time, utility companies like the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) will start paying you for the energy you give them. It is a niche and an avenue to make money just by owning a home, especially with the way ECG’s power supply is increasingly growing limited. 

    Another benefit is that energy sources like electricity run twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Instead of relying on utility companies for the rest of your life, spending more than a million Ghana cedis on bills that produce enough emissions to destroy the environment, you will be dependent on your home-produced power.

    AFTERTHOUGHTS
    We should start seeing buildings as more than shelter, we should see them as complex notes that provide many benefits, and this should become the new norm with shelter just being a byproduct. 

    Buildings need to be self-sufficient and produce excess energy. Suppose we are to spend our entire life savings to buy or build a house, as some of us would. Why not think of the bigger picture of what we would gain from owning a home, like the cheques we would receive at the end of each month from utility companies for the excess power we sell to them, rather than rely on retirement pay as we grow.

    The good thing is that there is no need to live in locations where solar energy thrives because there are so many renewable energy options for nearly all climates, including a windmill, geothermal, solar power, among others.

    In trying to build a Green home that would benefit you and change your lifestyle completely, you will indirectly end up helping develop an environmentally friendly society that reduces global warming. Imagine if every homeowner does this, there would be no need to combat the menace of global warming in our communities anymore.

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