By Jeff Spross | Climate Progress
SolarCity and PSW, a home builder based in Texas, are partnering to construct two communities in the Dallas-Forth Worth area with pre-installed solar arrays on each home.
As CleanTechnica reports, each home will be outfitted with a three kilowatt solar array. The cost of the solar electricity will be prepaid by the builder, with no additional monthly costs for the homeowner. SolarCity will handle the installation, insurance, as well as the monitoring and repair duties.
Each home will also have tankless water heaters, a digitized and programmable energy-efficient HVAC system, and Energy Star appliances.
SolarCity and PSW estimate the setup will cut each home’s lifetime carbon dioxide emissions by over half. And since a 10 kilowatt system is generally more than enough to power the average house, the energy savings from a 3 kilowatt system could be considerable.
