Friday, September 12, 2014

Who is leading the charge builders or homeowners?

Solar panels and Geothermal



There has been a push to green our housing stock and there are some big ticket items that can be incorporated into our buildings.  I got curious with my last post here because I noticed that a lot of the new green certs were not using a full solar system or using geothermal.  In fact this year stats so far for new construction is that .00064 percent of sold new homes had either geothermal or a full PV system.

Home owners are leading this charge on getting solar or geothermal into their homes.  Home owners that have sold this year that have either a full PV system or geothermal systems make up .0058% of the sold homes.  Neither number is great But home owners are doing better than builders.

To be fair there was a small percentage of PV ready homes that were not included in this look into where we are in greening our housing stock.

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