New homes on Queen Anne Hill offer solar upgrades as standard features

New homes on Queen Anne Hill offer solar upgrades as standard features

Martha Rose’s latest hi-performance homes, City Cabins, on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill are designed and built utilizing a whole house “system” approach, one of the many hidden benefits of the hi-tech  City Cabins are the energy-efficient upgrades added as standard equipment……….More Information                                       

Benefits of solar equipment

Seattle Builder Martha Rose has wired the garages of the two new hi-performance homes one Queen Anne for electric car power charging stations as well as installing a 1.9 kilowatt (KW) solar-panel system on one of the two City Cabin homes, the other is pre-wired and can accommodate up to a 5KW solar system. The 1.9 system should produce 2000KW hours of electricity annual, enough, according to Tacoma Power and Light, to power an electric car 7000-10,000 miles (depending on the make and model). If an electric car isn’t an option the electrical power produced from the 1.9KW system should offset the home owner’s electricity cost by 20-25% depending on the home owner’s energy use behaviors. In addition to the monthly savings there are also is a 3o% tax credit from the Federal Government good through 2014 in addition to the net-metering production incentives through Seattle City Light.

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