If you’re planning on building a home and are interested in realizing the most bang for your energy efficiency buck, you’d be smart to incorporate passive solar principles into the design of your home. Improved comfort and reduced cooling and heating energy bills can be achieved through passive solar design. Builders and designers use solar geometry concepts to integrate passive solar design into a home. Practically any type of architectural style can be employed with PSD - the only requirement is a building site which lends itself to the solar design principle of proper orientation.

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