KB Home is building an energy efficient, connected community southeast of Los Angeles that will feature its own microgrid.
Durango at Shadow Mountain is a new planned community 90 miles southeast of Los Angeles. That’s not news. New communities in the Golden State are popping up everywhere. What makes this one different is that all 78 homes are designed to be energy efficient and resilient. Every rooftop has 16 solar panels. Every garage features an energy storage battery, an electric car charger and a heat pump water heater. The homes are heated and cooled by a heat pump.
There’s more. Ten of the new KB Home dwellings will have vehicle-to-home capability thanks to bi-directional EV chargers installed in their garages. Kia is offering leases on an EV6 to those residents. The batteries in those cars can supplement the storage battery in the garage and supply electricity to the home of several days if the owner is judicious in the use of appliances during an outage.
“In California, when it’s really hot and there are fires, you’re threatened with the power turning off,” Dan Bridleman, senior vice president for sustainability, technology, and strategic sourcing at KB Home tells Bloomberg Green. “We felt like there was probably an affordable way to build resiliency, not only at the house level but also into the community.”The model home in Durango at Shadow Mountain has 2,906 square feet of living space and costs $577,990.
near Fort Myers in Florida was one of the first resilient communities with its own microgrid. It’s good to see the idea of efficient, resilient communities spreading to other parts of the country.
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