To drive up to the three- bedroom, two-bath bungalow being assembled in a historic residential neighborhood near downtown Folsom, you'd never suspect it's anything monumental.
But in the 600 block of Mormon Street, Folsom builder Robert Walter and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District are building what both call one of the most energy-efficient homes being constructed in the country.The ambition is lofty. But a more practical award awaits the eventual buyer: a combined $24 or so a month for gas and electricity bills.
Walter and SMUD are aiming to make the house LEED Platinum. That's a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design designation for sustainable home building reached just once in California, according to the U.S. Green Building Council in Washington, D.C.[More]
