This page contains Ai Florida Dome Office Energy Recap and floor plan layouts.
American Ingenuity’s (Ai’s) 3,700 sq.ft. Office Domes
can be cooled for less than $85 a month during Florida’s Hottest Months
To view Annual Electrical Bill Charts for Ai’s Dome Offices, click on links below named Ai Summary Electric Use. Our dome offices are a 45 ft in diameter dome linked to a 34 ft in diameter dome. Both domes are all electric with R-28 7″ EPS insulation. For example the 2015 SUMMARY shows that it costs a monthly average of $84.85 to air condition Ai’s 3,700 sq.ft. Florida offices for each of the five hottest months of the year. The following describes how we came to this conclusion. To view our office domes floor plan layouts, please scroll down to bottom of this page to find the pdfs to click on.
In March 2015 no Heat or AC were used, therefore the cost to run everything in our Office (computers, monitors, printers, backup power supplies, lights, well pump, refrigerator ) was $76.28. To determine the monthly Air Conditioning costs, we subtracted $76.28 from each month’s electric bill to get that month’s Air Conditioning Costs. To obtain our 2015 monthly average Air Conditioning costs, we averaged the five hottest month’s AC costs. The five hottest months in 2015 were June thru October to equal $424.26 divided by five to make an monthly average AC cost of $84.85 to air condition 3,700 sq.ft.during Florida’s hottest summer months. The thermostat was kept at 74 degrees 8 am -7pm Monday thru Saturday and 77 degrees at night and on Sunday.
In 2013 we kept the thermostat at 76 degrees during the day not 74 degrees as we did in 2014 and 2015; resulting in increased 2014 and 2015 cooling costs. Ai did not know it, but the air handler was not working properly during the summer of 2014 so we experienced higher AC costs than should have occurred. The air handler was replaced in December 2014 causing 2015 AC costs to be less than 2014 because the air handler was operating more efficiently in 2015.
SYI, heating Ai domes is even easier than cooling because when heating, the heat generated by computers, refrigerators, dishwashers, clothes dryers, sunlight, etc. is used and does not need to be overcome as is done during cooling.
To view info about South Carolina dome awarded EPA’s Energy Star, click on 40′ dome.
To view energy recap on a 34′ - 1,075 sq.ft. Florida Dome Home, click on Home Energy Recap.
As far as functioning in cold, snowy environment, American Ingenuity domes have been built in Canada, one built at 7,500 feet elevation in Utah and Aidomes have been built in all cold states in the USA except for New Hampshire, Rhode Island and North Dakota.
One of our customers in Pennsylvania built a 40′ dome on full basement. This is quote from them: ““We live in the mountains of PA. The winters up here can be brutal. Our Ai Dome is a 40ft with Link on a 9″ thick livable basement. {Den, Office/Computer room, Kitchenette} The entire interior, to include the mechanical room, is heated and cooled by a GeoThermal, Water furnace, Radiant floor system. Our zone controllers are set on 74 degrees winter and summer. Our sole power source, at present, is the grid. Our costs per month range from $99 to a high of $120. We were amazed that our cost now are less than when we lived in a 14 by 73 ft mobile home while building the Dome. Our decision to build an American Ingenuity Dome home was the best decision we have ever made.” To view pictures of their dome and other info, click on Charles Dome.
A picture of the dome at 7,500 feet elevation showing snow is one of the flashing pictures on our home page. The dome is off the grid and has increased EPS insulation from our standard 7″ R28 to 9″ or R36. Quote from the Utah dome owners: “Our house and solar electric system have met and exceeded all of our expectations. Our home is warm and spacious. Even with nighttime temperatures below zero, a fire in the masonry heater in the evening and a full day of sun warms the house to 70 degrees F. Our average summertime power consumption is between 150 and 200 kWh/month for 2700 square feet of living space. Wintertime consumption is somewhat higher. For comparison, our average pre-solar usage was near 600 kWh/month in our prior 2000 square foot suburban home.” To view info about Utah dome off the grid, click on Collar domes.
Question: How did the American Ingenuity dome perform during the Energy Efficiency Study prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy? Superbly. Test findings were released from a year long study prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy by the Florida Solar Energy Center, a governmental consumer agency, in cooperation with the University of Oregon and the University of Central Florida. This study compared an American Ingenuity dome with an energy efficient conventionally built structure and a super energy efficient Styrofoam house designed by Dow Chemical. It came as no surprise to us that our test dome far surpassed both the conventional house and the Dow test house in being the most energy efficient.
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The first pdfs are recaps by year showing each month’s electric bill amount. Our utility company is named Florida Power & Light. In 2015 the cost per KWH was 11cents.
To view the individual Florida Power and Light electric bills for 2013, 2014 & 2015. click on the three links below for each year
2013 Florida Office Monthly Electric Bills
Jan. - April
May - Aug.
Sept. - Dec.
2014 Florida Office Monthly Electric Bills
Jan. - April
May - Aug.
Sept. - Dec.
2015 Florida Office Monthly Electric Bills
Jan. - April
May - Aug.
Sept - Dec.
To view the floor plan layouts for our Office Domes, please click on the pdfs below. The first floor layout is named Ai Office Dome Floor 1. The second floor plan layout is named Ai Office Dome Floor 2.
