If you installed an earth-friendly energy source, such as a solar water heater or electricity panels, Samay recommends looking into the Residential Energy Efficient Property Credit, which can credit you up to 30percentt of costs.
Nevada's first platinum-certified LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) buildings stand proudly here, constructed of recycled materials and rammed-earth walls, with passive cooling, renewable heating, reclaimed water and solar-electricity panels, all harvesting clean energy.
Customers can go to a website that visually details which of their panels are working and how much electricity each panel or the entire rooftop system has generated over the last hour, the past day or other periods of time.
It works by generating electricity from panels that absorb solar radiation before transforming it into energy.
To get electricity, "photovoltaic" panels use silicon to collect sunlight, and a converter turns power into alternating current, while batteries store energy for later use.
The solar industry is braced for significant cuts in January to feed-in-tariffs, which have encouraged thousands of householders to install electricity generating panels on their roofs.
Investors are also growing increasingly comfortable with a cluster of companies that finance smaller-scale solar installations for homes and businesses and then collect payments for the electricity the panels produce.
They will usually get the most savings that way because they will have no monthly charge for the amount of electricity the panels produce and they can take advantage of tax breaks, credits and other incentives.
