Households tend to take for granted how much energy is used on heating and cooling in a home; one could save energy and by association cash on a few alternative green heating solutions. We’re here to give you two alternative methods that can be used in the struggle to save electricity and energy. According to some surveys, households use 29 percent of their energy bill on heating followed by 17 percent for cooling; that makes almost half of all energy bills spent on heating and cooling systems. One wouldn’t need to be convinced that to save energy in the home means to save cash in the pocket.

The solar energy industry experienced an interesting year in 2010 with a variety of stumbles (such as budget cuts, companies dropping out of agreements, workers being laid off and so on), but it also saw impressive growth with 15GW of PV solar energy systems being installed globally, compared with 7.2GW in 2009.