It’s Easy, And You Can Start Today Even though many people do care about the environment, the recent economic downturn has forced us to focus more on our own financial survival than saving the planet.

The good news is that you can do both at the same time. You can save the planet while saving energy! There are many ways to conserve resources, some are simple and easy but don’t do a lot others will make a bigger impact but can be costly and time consuming to implement.

You can use wind power and/or solar power to provide additional electricity to your home. While it would take quite a few turbines or solar panels to supply all the electricity needed, every little bit will help. If you’re not quite to the stage where you want to start installing turbines and solar panels, there are still some simple changes you can make starting today.

Here are a few easy to follow, simple to do, suggestions:

• Turn off lights and other electricity using appliances when not in use. Even on standby mode t.v’s and DVD players use electricity. If you aren’t using them for extended periods of time unplug them.
• Keep all filters in your furnace and air conditioners clean. A dirty filter cuts down on efficiency dramatically which means your unit will work harder and use more electricity.
• Use nature as much as possible. When it’s warm and there is a nice breeze, shut off the A.C. and open your windows. In the winter allow as much sunlight into your home as possible, but make sure to keep that sunlight out in the hot summer months.

These tips are simple, and commonsense, but they will help you with saving energy and you can start today.

You don’t need a larger generator to get premium comfort, just a smarter one!

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Fully Automatic – Advanced electronics will detect a utility power outage and automatically start the generator whether you are home or away.

Vanguard™ V-Twin Engines – An industry leading commercial grade Big Block™ air-cooled engine provides powerful, quiet, durable performance for large, power hungry homes -perfect for years of heavy-duty standby power.

Sound Shield™ Technology – Engineered air passages, an automotive-style exhaust system and acoustic foam dampeners ensure quiet operation. (65 -68dB under normal load)

CoastGuard™ All-Climate Enclosure – Features heat/rust proof polymer vents and louvers, rounded corners and a 3-step automotive rust proofing & wet coat paint process for years of durable outdoor protection -perfect for extreme weather and salt air conditions.

Turn Key Extras – Each system includes a battery charger, hour meter, and installation pad. The engine also comes pre-filled with synthetic oil and is pre-run at the factory, saving you time and money.

Premium Warranty – 4 year limited -your guarantee of quality and performance.

Legendary Service & Support – From professional sizing and delivery to installation & service, trust the proven experts at Synergy Electric and Briggs & Stratton for complete peace of mind.

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Synergy Electric Inc. is your number 1 source for generators in Massachusetts and all of New England!

Changing Economic Times a Great Opportunity for Leominster Electrical Contractor

Leominster, Massachusetts – March 5, 2010- The recent downturn and changing economic climate should be a welcome opportunity to re-invent your company says the owners of “Synergy Electric Inc.”.

Synergy Electric Inc., a new venture formed by Mike Marini and Keith Boisvert, formally of PlasticCity Electric, is proud to announce it’s new business model and website.

Understanding the need to specialize, Synergy Electric Inc. was formed to focus in on specific areas of electrical services. On the residential side they are now catering to the custom market, handling generators, remodels, custom lighting, surge suppression, home office and special needs applications.

On the industrial side of the business, Synergy has focused in on controls and wiring as well as motors and drives, services not many electrical contractors have the experience to handle. With over 40 years of combined industrial knowledge Synergy can handle everything from building custom control panels to machinery troubleshooting and repair.

The staff at Synergy feel that by being able to offer superior quality and professional 24 hour service at affordable rates they can be competitive in this market while offering their clients complete piece of mind in knowing that their work is being done by insured experts.

Synergy Electric Inc, has also partnered with other area professional contractors to ensure that they can handle all aspects of a clients project. Understanding that most projects require the need for multiple trades to complete, Synergy’s full service programs takes the hassle and aggravation out of that big project and can handle it from start to finish.

Contact:

Mike Marini

mike@electricsynergy.com

106 Carter Street

Leominster, Ma 01453

ph: 978-537-WIRE

www.electricsynergy.com

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There are many good reasons to conserve energy. If we use less gas, oil and electricity we will save money, and the pollution associated with extracting and using fossil fuels will decrease. Reducing greenhouse gas production may help to reverse global warming. In a nutshell – conservation of energy has both personal and societal benefits.

Most people are concerned with making their money last longer and energy conservation can help by reducing our energy costs. Homeowners can do many things to cut down on their energy needs. Perhaps the best thing they can do to is to install better insulation to retain warm and cool air.

Heating and air conditioning are the biggest energy consumers of the average household. Much of the heat and cool air escapes because of poorly insulated roofs, walls, doors, and windows. In fact in a lot of cases heating and cooling is responsible for around 50% of your energy costs. Improving insulation will result in greater conservation of energy and lesser energy costs. Small changes in this area can result in dramatic reduction in your monthly payment to your utility company.

Old cooling and heating appliances should be replaced with newer models which are more energy efficient. Other large appliances like refrigerators can also be replaced with newer models that are designed to conserve energy. Always make sure you read the energy label, if you do, you will often find that a cheap product in fact can be expensive in its every day use because of its energy consumption.

Traditional light bulbs are inefficient because much of the energy they consume is converted to heat. Replacing all your incandescent bulbs with compact florescent bulbs will provide the same level at light with less energy consumption. Even though the cost of these bulbs is greater than traditional bulbs, they last up to 20 times longer, resulting in significant overall savings.

Using alternative energy sources such as solar panels or wind turbines can greatly reduce the amount of energy needed from traditional sources. The electricity produced by these devices can be fed back into the local power grid if it is not immediately used by the household. This reduces the power bill even further (the power meter runs backwards) while supplying clean power to your community.

Conservation of energy is not just for homes, cars and trucks are available with more energy efficient engines and some can run on alternate power sources such as hydrogen or electricity.

Conservation of energy is something that everyone can contribute to. By being careful in how we use our resources we are building a society for our children and grandchildren.

By 2012, inefficient incandescent light bulbs will not be sold. Compact fluorescents will be part of the future, among other options.

(story from NY Times)

Published: December 22, 2007

The new energy bill signed this week makes it official. When 2012 hits, stores can no longer sell the cheap but inefficient incandescent light bulbs that are fixtures in most homes.

Even so, light bulb manufacturers say that worries about greenhouse gases and the high cost of energy had them moving away from conventional incandescents way before Congress weighed in. For quite some time, they note, they have been trying to soften the light emitted by compact fluorescent lights, bring down the cost of light-emitting diodes — and yes, find ways to increase the efficiency of incandescents.

Many of the products are already on the market, and more will be available before the deadline kicks in,

“Sure, you’ll see more compact fluorescents five years from now, but you would have seen them without any energy bill,” said the chief executive of Osram Sylvania, Charlie Jerabek.

Michael B. Petras Jr., vice president of GE Consumer and Industrial — the unit that includes General Electric’s lighting business — broadened the thought to all forms of lighting. “You’ll see different light sources for your decorative chandelier, for your recessed lighting and for your under-cabinet lights,” he said. “And I can assure you that all the kinds of light sources are already getting a lot more efficient.”

Including incandescents.

Congress has not specifically outlawed incandescent bulbs, only inefficient ones.

In February, G.E. said that it was developing a high-efficiency incandescent that will radiate more than twice the light of conventional incandescents. It expects to make that one commercially available by 2010, and one that is twice as efficient a few years later.

And so far, consumers have been slow to give new products a chance. Compact fluorescents, for example, are already ubiquitous in stores. Many retailers, led by Wal-Mart, have promoted the economics of the bulbs — though compact fluorescents generally cost six times what incandescents do, they last six times as long and use far less energy.

The EnergyStar program of the Environmental Protection Agency has been pushing compact fluorescents for almost nine years.

“People realize that incandescents are an old, inefficient technology,” an EnergyStar spokeswoman, Maria Vargas, said.

The promotions have had modest success. Mr. Jerabek said Sylvania’s sales of compact fluorescents doubled in 2006 over 2005, and doubled again this year. But, he notes, they still account for 15 percent of bulbs in use in homes.

Sylvania recently introduced a fluorescent that Mr. Jerabek said mimicked the light of incandescents. He concedes that incandescents are about 10 percent warmer, but he insists that “the average consumer would have trouble detecting the difference.”

Compact fluorescent lights have problems beyond light quality. They contain mercury, and few recycling centers will accept them. So at the end of life, they still pose an environmental hazard.

“We’re working to reduce mercury, but the amount will never go to zero,” Mr. Petras said.

That is why Mr. Jerabek, for one, calls compact fluorescent lights “a temporary fix.”

Manufacturers are putting a lot of stock in light-emitting diodes — or L.E.D.’s. They operate with chips made of nontoxic materials and last for about 50,000 hours, compared with 1,000 hours for an incandescent and 6,000 for a compact fluorescent. A tiny L.E.D. can shed as much light as a cumbersome bulb, which makes them easier to integrate into a home’s décor. And, they are extremely energy efficient.

But today, they are too expensive to use for all lighting applications. And, while manufacturers are able to make pretty good colored L.E.D.’s — the kind that are already available for Christmas tree lights — they have yet to perfect a white L.E.D. that would be useful for lighting homes.

Manufacturers are working to get the costs down and the white lighting quotient up. Most predict that white L.E.D.’s will be commercially viable in a few years.

“Most C.F.L.’s meet the EnergyStar specs now, and all of us are optimistic about the prospects for L.E.D.’s,” Ms. Vargas said.

But even though the energy bill has not changed the direction of lighting research, most manufacturers are relieved to have a federal standard in place.

“If each state passed its own rules for light bulb efficiency, we’d have to make 50 different types,” Mr. Jerabek said. “Now we can all standardize our production techniques.”

Surge Suppression Incorporated ® and their affiliated companies, are manufacturers of a complete line of quality Transient Voltage Surge Suppression devices for AC and DC power, data and telecommunications. They started in business in 1982 as an independent distributor of TVSS devices.

Over the years, they provided both quality TVSS devices and quality service to their customers. Due to the original TVSS manufacturer’s sale to a foreign corporation, they decided to found Surge Suppression Incorporated ®. The stated purpose was the manufacture of TVSS devices of superior quality and performance which would exceed the standards of the products sold before.

Make sure to contact us for more information on how you can get ANY item from Surge Suppression Inc.

All Tilt’ N Plug Jr products belong to a family of compact interconnection solutions designed for installation into a table as part of a presentation system. They are designed for mounting into a table, podium, or other furniture to provide a way of connecting audiovisual equipment on top of the furniture to a presentation system below the furniture.

All use the same core element; a multimedia input plate that can be “tilted’ open when needed and pushed closed when not needed.

All signals pass through the input plate directly to cables on the underside of the table with no intervening circuitry. The use of additional ALTINEX Signal Management Solutions such as computer video interfaces, distribution amplifiers, and swithchers may be desirable.

The input plate of the Tilt’N Plug Jr. is accessible by pushing down on the top cover. The unit then auto-tilts open with help from an internal pneumatic spring. Once open, the input plate remains securely in place. The input plate is hidden by pressing down on the top cover until the latching mechanism engages. In its closed position, the top panel lies flush with the table’s top, held in place by the latching mechanism.

The TNP121 provides a single input plate with computer video (15pin HD), computer audio (3.5mm Stereo Mini), modem (RJ11), and network (RJ45) input connections. It also provides an AC Power connection suitable for use throughout the U.S. and Canada.

All Tilt’ N Plug Jr. Signal Management Solutions come with a standard top and bezel offering a high quality matte black finish. The unit can also be customized with different connections and colors.

Custom Machinery Builders

At Synergy Electric Inc. we understand that every company has unique needs for custom machinery, and we every piece that leaves our dock is individually tailored for your business.

The above picture is an application for the wire and cable industry(Dancer) that we built. The parts used were all off the shelf components, and contained a rugged internal design. All precision regulators were used for fine tuning, which was a strict customer requirement.