Serial Entrepreneur turned Social Enterprise Architect | Passion For Disruptive Innovation | Bitcoiner | ESG Advocate
This affects far more 20M people. Manufactured home residents are just one subsection of individuals with restricted access to affordable and sustainable solutions, there are a variety of factors. Not to mention all of those with restricted access to energy. This problem is core to the purpose of Integration Alliance. Community-scale solutions WILL move us faster, but they do need more integrated coordination and creative funding structures. Especially if we want to bring solutions to these individuals with restricted access.
Clean Energy Strategist | Speaker | Accelerating the Energy Transition | Decoding Market Signals |
The $7,500 Energy Bill Problem No One's Talking About 💰 A shocking stat: Manufactured home residents spend up to $7,500 annually on energy - nearly half their housing costs. But a pioneering Colorado project is flipping the script on America's most energy-intensive housing. Think of it as "neighborhood-level electrification": 1. Why It Matters • 20M+ Americans live in manufactured homes • Most spend 40% of housing costs just on utilities • Traditional upgrades often financially out of reach • Individual solutions aren't working at scale 2. The Colorado Solution • Community of 16 homes piloting shared approach • Combines heat pumps, batteries, shared solar • Leverages group purchasing power • Early results show 50%+ energy savings potential 3. The Market Signal • Utilities discovering new partnership models • Federal funding stretches further at community scale • Resident-owned communities leading innovation • Blueprint emerging for nationwide replication Here's the key insight: While we chase silver bullets in luxury home electrification, the biggest impact opportunity might be hiding in plain sight - our manufactured home communities. Question: Are we thinking too small by focusing on house-by-house upgrades when community-scale solutions could move faster? #EnergyEquity #CleanEnergy #CommunityPower
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Christopher Read
Traditional manufactured housing communities use more than 60% of the land area, lots can allow as little as 5 feet of land on each of the 4 sides of the home (10 feet between trailers). It is very efficient from a land use POV, but leaves little space for anything new. In the evening, cars fill one lane of streets, to allow parking. Finding room for district style HVAC and other items can be a massive challenge. Circuits into the communities, are at 80-90% of capacity. Transformers are loaded or overloaded in many existing communities - and EVs are coming. The first step we found in a traditional community with many 20 year old units was to pull the walls apart, install steel studs and insulation. Use insulation foam to put 6-10 inches of insulation. Setting up roofs with a small pitch and a 8+ inch gap between the factory roof and the new roof. Then fill that gap with insulation. Finally replacing windows and doors with better units (double or triple pane). Lots of labor, and painful work, but up to a 60% decrease in HVAC. Many of the older units have 10 amp circuits that have 15 or 20 amp breakers, replacing conductor allows computers and other electric devices to run with far less in the way of losses.