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Energy Efficiency

Capture All the Advantages of Environmentally Friendly Roofing

Offering long-lasting and recyclable materials, Four Seasons has been recognized for our environmentally excellent practices. Beyond using responsible methods and materials, our team is here to help with additional energy-saving measures.

Learn more about how to gain energy savings through solar panels, incentives programs, utility benefits, and more.

Energy and Cost Savings
Lower Your Utilities Cost
Tax Incentives
Maintenance and Material End-of-Life
Lower Your Utilities Cost

Roofs like Duro-Last® provide excellent energy benefits that reduce necessary use of utilities like air conditioning. The Duro-Last® Cool Zone roofing system® is a “cool roof” – one with high solar reflectance and high thermal emittance. These qualities minimize the heat that comes into your building from the roof and keep your building cooler. Our cool roofs exceed California’s Title 24 requirements with 88% solar reflectance and 87% thermal emittance. By beating this stringent standard, we prove again that Duro-Last® is the world’s best roof.

Tax Incentives

Find out what perks you can get by working with a responsible roofer. For both new and existing commercial and residential buildings, there are a number of tax benefits you can qualify for with the right eco-friendly roofing system. Solar panel integration, roofing materials, insulation configurations, and heating and cooling energy savings can all get you closer to tax credits – ask us more today!

Maintenance and Material End-of-Life

In many cases, our team of local roofers is able to maintain or even reuse existing roofing material when re-roofing or repairing your roof. This decreases the amount of waste and mess present at your job site. Customers and residents are kept happier, and the job can often be completed very quickly with material cost savings because of it.

For material we cannot reuse, we always seek to recycle or dispose of it in a responsible way. Our team of commercial roofers keeps both your business and the environment in mind with our practices, achieving benefits for both at the job site.

Did You Know…

Four Seasons Energy Efficient Roofing recycles all possible materials – pallets, paper, Styrofoam insulation, plastic, stones from ballasted roofs, etc. from roofing projects?

Installation of an energy efficient Duro-Last® Roofing System can reduce landfill waste because over 90% of the existing roof doesn’t have to be torn off — the new roof can be overlaid?

Energy-efficient roofs are more environmentally friendly, offer significant tax rebates and utility discounts and, in many cases, pay for themselves?

Going Solar
What are Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Panels?
Types of Mounts
Benefits and Costs of Solar Panels
Types of Solar PV Cells
What are Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Panels?

Solar panels aka photovoltaics are “semi-conductor devices that convert sunlight into direct current electricity (DC).” Solar panels are usually installed as a grid type system. One of three scenarios can exist:

  • “Off The Grid”: Building’s solar panels generate enough energy that the building owner doesn’t need to buy energy from his/her power company, or the owner’s building is “off the grid.” It is self-sufficient.
  • Buy Energy: Building’s solar panels produce only some of their energy needs so the owner must buy power from his/her energy company, which is often at the regular rates. However, the owner would need to buy less energy from the power company than if s/he did not have solar panels.
  • “Feed In Tariff”: Building’s solar panels generate more energy than the building actually uses so the owner can “sell” or “feed into the grid system.” The building owner would receive a payment usually at a premium rate from his/her power company.

Types of Mounts
  • Roof Ballasted (held down by stones or weights)
    • Raise Waves: Where there is a photovoltaic module on one side and a reflector (mirror) on the other side.
  • Roof Mounted (screwed or welded to the roof)
    • Flat: Photovoltaics are attached to the roof, laying flat or flush with the roof
    • Raised: Racks that are attached to the roof with the modules in a “v” shape.
  • Axis Tracking Array: Often in the yard where it pivots to follow the sun.
Benefits and Costs of Solar Panels
  • Energy savings and energy cost stabilization: If you’re “off the grid,” you’ll stabilize your energy costs as you will be creating your own energy and won’t have to pay future price hikes from your energy company.
  • Long-lasting: Typical systems are expected to last 20-30 years
  • Reduces Global Warming
  • Gain credits for Green Globe and LEED projects
  • Lowers Carbon Footprint
  • Rebate Programs: Current federal and state rebate programs combined with energy company grants can produce a 5-7 year payoff, with up to 90% off of installation costs.

Solar credits and energy pricing rates are county dependent. Contact us and/or check with your particular energy company in your area on the rebates and cost incentives that exist for installation of a solar photovoltaic system.

Example of Solar Photovoltaic Savings:

  • To SOLELY power a three bedroom home through solar energy, the house would need approximately eleven 4 ft x 8 ft solar or photovoltaic panels.
  • A 4 ft x 8 ft solar panel will generate about 450 watts or about 51 kWh/month. (3.8 hrs avg peak sun hours in MN/day x 450 watts x 30 days / 1000 watts = 51.3 kWh/month). Xcel Energy representatives state that a typical household uses about 600 kWh per month, so if a house had one 4 ft x 8 ft solar panel, the household would generate 51 kWh through the panel and would need to purchase 549 kWh from Xcel Energy for a total of 600 kWh for the month.
Types of Solar PV Cells
Some of the main ones are:

  • Crystalline Silicon: The highest efficiencies on silicon have been achieved on monocrystalline cells at 22-25%
  • Thin-film solar cells: Three main types of thin film solar cells average about 18% efficiencies:
    • Cadium telluride solar cell
    • Copper-Indium selenide
    • Gallium arsenide multijunction
  • Multiple-junction solar cells: The record for this type is disputed. Teams led by the University of Delaware, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, and NREL all claim the world title at 42.8, 41.1, and 40.8%, respectively.”
Find out how your building can benefit from energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly materials and practices! Call Four Seasons at 651-414-9682 to get your free consultation.

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9541 75th St. N.
Stillwater, MN 55082
651-414-9682

License Number
MN: BC-384179
WI: DC-112001192

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