The Department of Energy selected a Menifee development as a pilot for building new energy-efficient homes. The project is one of 10 “Connected Communities,” officially launched today, …
Saws and hammers ringing out in the town of Menifee are crafting a new model community for America’s clean energy future.
The development also is one of 10 U.S. Department of Energy-funded pilot projects aimed at curbing global warming and developing more energy-efficient buildings. San Diego’s Marine Corps Air Station Miramar has a microgrid. UC Irvine has been quietly turning its entire campus into a microgrid for the past decade, using gas- and steam-powered turbines to provide 19 megawatts of power.
“We do commercial microgrids all the time. All sorts in the commercial industrial space, utility space,” Wills said. “What’s unique about this is taking that knowledge and ability and applying it to a residential application. … Doing a microgrid for 237 different homes with 237 different owners is actually more complicated.”
A U.S. Department of Energy drawing shows an “illustrative schematic” of the microgrid KB Home and partners are building in Menifee. A bedroom inside an all-electric model home located at a new KB Home community in Menifee on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. The Oak Shade and Durango communities will feature all-electric homes equipped with solar panels and batteries.
In addition to L.A.-based national homebuilder KB Home, partners include solar-power provider SunPower, Schneider Electric, UC Irvine, Southern California Edison and automaker Kia. U.S. housing starts for single-family homes fell 18% in September to the lowest level in 2 ½ years, U.S. Census figures show.“We’re going to be watching the project, and we’re going to make sure it’s going at a good pace,” the energy department’s Narayanamurthy said.
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