Doing good is good for business. With solar emerging as a kind of new status symbol for personal responsibility, builders are finding that homes with solar sell faster. Even in a fragile housing market solar homes outsell their counterparts, sometimes as much a two-to-one. And, shorter market time means lower carrying costs and improved profitability.

The SunBuilt Program is an incentive-based solar program. The program works hand-in-hand with energy efficient home building programs, like Energy Star, Home Advantage, BuildSmart or Gold Ring Homes by providing builders with monetary, branding and marketing assistance.

Gold or Silver?

Two levels of commitment are available to participating builders, SunBuilt Gold and SunBuilt Silver. Builders who participate at the silver level agree to offer solar as an optional feature to all clients. For that pledge, they receive a $500 rebate for each system they install. SunBuilt Gold Builders install solar water heaters as a standard feature. For this commitment they receive a free solar water heater installed on a parade or model home in addition to the $500 rebate for each system installed. With homebuyers more conscious of long-term salability as well as short-term economics, solar is becoming a valuable selling point for builders.

Participating builders gain:

• More profit potential
• New range of clients
• Greater client satisfaction
• Ease of energy code compliance
• Entry into the world of green building

Builder Criteria
Complete Participation Guide - PDF Download