Plan Your Energy Needs Before You Build
Design Your Dream Home, Powered by the Sun: The Indigo ApproachAt Indigo, we believe in a proactive approach to your new home’s energy strategy. The decisions you make early in the design and build process have a profound impact on your energy consumption and, ultimately, your utility bills down the line. Consider this: will you opt for an electric or induction cooktop? That’s an immediate addition to your electrical load. Planning for a highly efficient heat pump for heating and cooling? While it’s a smart choice for sustainability, it will undeniably affect your electric bill. With so many critical decisions to make during a new build, how do you even begin to factor in energy usage?
Let Us Do The Math For You
We’re currently working on a custom home project where the challenge is precisely this: understanding the true energy needs of a brand-new residence. Given the significant evolution of California’s stringent building codes over the past decade – which now often mandate solar and even battery storage for new construction – it’s crucial to move beyond mere compliance and aim for optimal energy performance.
Real-World Load Calculations
We take the comprehensive load calculation chart from your home’s plan set – a required document in California – and cross-reference it with data from our extensive portfolio of past projects. This allows us to develop a much more realistic and nuanced understanding of your home’s anticipated daily kilowatt-hour (kWh) consumption. While factors like individual appliance usage or pool heating temperatures can naturally vary, our methodology provides a robust starting point.
Scaled to Fit Your Home
From there, we work closely with you to scale the solar and battery system up or down to perfectly align with your unique needs and desires for your new home.
Beyond the initial calculations, there’s another critical factor: solar technology is constantly evolving. New solar panels, inverters, and batteries are emerging every six months, offering greater efficiency, different aesthetics, and innovative functionalities.
What’s cutting-edge today might be surpassed by the time your home is ready for installation. This rapid advancement is precisely why we strongly recommend working with Indigo early in your design process.
We don’t just design for what’s available today; we leverage our expertise and industry foresight to help you design a system that incorporates the correct and most efficient solar panels, inverters, and battery storage for when you actually need them. By partnering with us from the outset, you ensure your solar investment is future-proofed, optimized for performance, and seamlessly integrated into the aesthetic vision of your dream home.
Ready to Power Your Home with the Sun?
Let’s start the conversation about powering your new home with intelligent, sustainable energy.