Lennar to Start Building Green Homes

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Lennar announced plans to build large solar home development in the Sacramento area.

<a title="Lennar" href="http://www.lennar.com/" target="_blank">Lennar</a> recently announced its partnership with <a href="http://smud.org/">Sacramento Municipality Utility District</a> (SMUD) to build over 1,200 energy-efficient solar powered homes in the Sacramento area. The homes will be featured in 11 new communities.<a title="SMUD" href="http://smud.org/" target="_blank">SMUD's</a> contribution to this project will be about $10.9 million in incentives that <a title="Lenar" href="http://www.lennar.com/" target="_blank">Lennar</a> will receive the rebates after homes are constructed. Homeowners will come out the winners in this project, since these homes are expected to provide them with at least 60% savings on their electric bills. This is also help reduce pollution in the area, which is always a good thing.Green building and solar powered homes are starting to catch on more lately, with energy companies sweetening the deal with incentives in the form of rebates to the homebuilders.<a title="Lennar" href="http://www.lennar.com/" target="_blank">Lennar</a> calls its new program <a title="Lennar SolarPlus" href="http://www.lennarliving.com/solar" target="_blank">Solarplus</a>, which includes not only the solar power as a standard feature, but also includes energy efficient features such as low-E windows, 15 SEER rated central air conditioners, improved insulation and energy efficient lighting. You'd think that these homes may be out of reach for many homeowners, but some of these projects appear to be surprisingly reasonable. Lennar's new development at Westpark in Roseville, CA features the new <a title="Lennar SolarPlus" href="http://www.lennarliving.com/solar" target="_blank">Solarplus</a> progam and is priced from the low $500's. Their nearby Fiddyment project is available from the high $500's. OK, so we're not talking Santa Clarita home prices here, but these homes aren't the teeny-tiny cracker boxes that you'd expect at this price point either.Hopefully these new Lennar <a title="Lennar SolarPlus" href="http://www.lennarliving.com/solar" target="_blank">Solarplus</a> developments will be successful enough for us to see similar developments in the Santa Clarita area as well. The <a title="Go Solar California" href="http://www.gosolarcalifornia.ca.gov/index.html" target="_blank">"Go Solar, California"</a> project by the California Energy Commission, otherwise known as the <a title="New Solar Homes Project NSHP" href="http://www.gosolarcalifornia.ca.gov/nshp/index.html" target="_blank">New Solar Homes Partnership</a> (NSHP), includes agreements with <a title="Southern California Edison SCE" href="http://www.sce.com/" target="_blank">Southern California Edison</a> (SCE) to provide incentives to build solar homes. And of course part of <a title="Southern California Edison SCE" href="http://www.sce.com/" target="_blank">SCE's</a> territory includes the Santa Clarita Valley. This also ties in with the Governor's <a title="Million Solar Roofs" href="http://gov.ca.gov/index.php/press-release/3588/" target="_blank">Million Solar Roofs</a> Plan, where Governor Schwarzenegger has vowed to make it a priority to develop a self-sustaining solar industry for California.Lennar is the builder for several of the new home developments in the Santa Clarita area, including Valencia West Hills and West Creek, Valencia RiverVillage (River Village) and Camino del Lago in Castaic.As an <a title="Ecobroker" href="http://www.ecobroker.com/" target="_blank">Ecobroker</a>, I'm especially concerned about the future of energy efficient and green home building. Owners of existing homes will find that there are many exciting incentive programs to help them go green as well! 9 application/xml false camino del lago ecobroker edison green building lennar river village rivervillage santa clarita solar homes solar homes partnership solarplus valencia west creek west hills Lennar to Start Building Green Homes Lennar partners with California Energy Commission to build energy-efficient homes. item/159830 Owners of energy-efficient solar homes can expect to see at least 60% savings on their electric bills. Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 3.1) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 lslocum false true false false true 181698 false false true false false false true 120085 blog blogsite/SantaClaritaRealEstate/web