The Top of the World retirement community already stresses solar power and very high insulation levels in their houses. It surprised us to hear that and yet see almost no solar power in houses in The Villages. We see plenty of solar water heating for swimming pools but very few solar panels for electricity. Given that The Villages outsells Top of the World (and everybody else in the retirment community), I wonder if they made the calculation that too few people are willing to pay the initial bump in housing prices to incorporate solar power to warrant widescale inclusion.
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