Ontario’s Minister of the Environment and Climate Change and the mayor of Barrie helped launch an eco-friendly housing development on Friday.
Royal Park Homes is partnering with Panasonic Eco Solutions to build new homes equipped with solar panels and energy management system.
“Two and a half kilowatts currently coming off the roof, the batteries are charged at 100% so there is no power going to the battery, it’s not needed so it’s going to power my house,” says Walter Buzzelli with Panasonic Eco Solutions.
The new energy systems are being offered as standard equipment on 11 new homes to be built by Royal Park near the shores of Kempenfelt Bay. They will also be offered on some of the homes at the company’s Pineview development.
Minister Glen Murray says homes that generate their own power will be an important part of Ontario’s solution to reducing greenhouse gases in the future.
“Over the next decades we have to get all of our buildings, and the future the ones that aren't built yet as well as the ones that are built to net zero which means a massive deployment of this technology in every community it's in every building,” says Minister Murray.
The developer says the cost of the new system will be included in the price of the homes which will start in the $700,000 range.
