Costs and Financing
- Each house sold for an average of $380,000.
- Homeowners are receiving an average of $60 per month solar utility bill for heating.
- $7 million for the initial start up of the Drake Landing Solar Community project.
- If this project were repeated it would cost $4 million, as approximately $3 million was for one-time research and development.
- Optimal community size would be 200-300 homes to realize the economies of scale. The number of systems would remain the same but the number of boreholes would just need to increase.
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