In 2014, Atascadero Family Apartments won highly competitive funding from the USDA Rural Development Division with commitments to all-electric design, 105%solar PV offset with a strategy to store 5% of the site energy “off-grid,” LEED Platinum, and Dept. of Energy Zero Energy Ready Homes (ZERH). While this was the developer’s 5th all electric project, this design strategy for storage was new and overall, a departure from their standard designs, which are typically not high performing, all-electric buildings and assume a central gas boiler not individual systems.
Redwood Energy has led the design of more than 20,000 units of Zero Net Energy, all-electric affordable housing, and 200 all-electric market rate residences.
