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ENERGY SAVINGS

Energy saving is a very popular topic in this day and age, and many of these "green" technologies have become very affordable. 

Solar Electricity, Climate Control, LED lighting, Lighting Control, and Window Shades are all practical ways to acomplish energy and money savings.

Solar Energy has become more practical in the past few years, and less expensive.  Also, new legislation forces electricity providers to "buy" electricity back from home owners.

Dimming lights just slightly saves energy and prolongs the life of incandescent bulbs.  Many think of compact fluorescent bulbs as a way of saving electricity, however, as you may well know, these bulbs do not last as long as advertised, and have a very long start up time and do not have a very pleasing color temperature.  You may not know that they take a great amount of energy to warm up and contain chemicals like lead and mercury.  And we don't recycle them, we throw them away.

Dimming incandescent or LED bulbs save great amounts of electricity over time.  We have complete home dimming packages that can save their worth over time.  A lighting system can allow you to schedule lights to come on throughout your home at specific levels through out the day depending on outside light levels.  A astronomical timer allows your lighting system to track the sunrise and sunset throughout the year and raise and lower lights accordingly.

Easy to install Radio Frequency dimmers from Lutron Radio RA retrofit easily without running new wire or cutting any holes in drywall.  Keypads allow you to turn off and on lights from any room in the house.  Never come home to a dark home again!

Contact IWire Chicago today to find out more!

Window shades can be automated to raise or lower in the same way.  A south bank of widows is subjected to a great deal of sun in the summer days.  If solar shades are lowered during the warmest parts of the day, your home will stay cooler and your air conditioning will come on less.

As with lighting and shades, your heat and air conditioning can be automated.  Heat levels can be ruduced during the day when your not home and while you're sleeping.  Your heat can come on just before waking up for work and then go into an energy saving mode when you leave, automaticly, saving a great deal of energy.