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What we install

One crew for the envelope, the mechanicals and the array, so the numbers actually add up.

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The people doing the work

Eleven people, one warehouse on Pearl Parkway, and a service radius we can drive in under an hour.

Meet the crew

North End, Louisville, 2024

An all-electric rebuild, sized from the Manual J up

A 2.4 ACH50 rebuild with a 34,800 Btu per hour design load. The tight envelope let us drop a heat pump size and put the savings into a bigger array.

Array
11.4 kW DC, 26 modules at 440 W
Design heating load
34,800 Btu/h at 2 degrees F
Heat pump
3 ton cold-climate ducted, 78 percent capacity retained at 5 degrees F
A completed GreenLeaf Home Energy project in North End, LouisvilleNorth End, Louisville

How it went

The decisions, in order

01

Start with the load, not the catalogue

The mechanical contractor's original proposal was a 4 ton system based on square footage. The room-by-room Manual J against Boulder County's 2 degree F winter design temperature came out at 34,800 Btu per hour, which is a 3 ton machine with room to spare.

02

What the size drop bought

One size smaller on the heat pump saved about $3,100 and reduced the electrical load calculation enough that the 48 A charger and the heat pump both fit on the 200 A service without load management.

03

Sizing the array against an all-electric house

With no gas meter at all, everything lands on the electric bill: space heat, water heat, cooking and roughly 9,000 miles of driving. The array at 11.4 kW DC covers 90 percent of the 17,940 kWh the house used in its first full year.

04

The ventilation footnote

At 2.4 ACH50 this house is too tight to breathe on its own. A balanced heat recovery ventilator runs continuously at low speed, recovering most of the heat from the outgoing air.

What the homeowner said

Everyone else quoted the heat pump off the square footage. GreenLeaf did the calculation and it was a full ton smaller.

Marcus Delacroix, North End

16,220 kWh produced against 17,940 kWh consumed. Ninety percent offset on an all-electric house with an EV.

Start with the test, not the quote

Three to four hours on site, a written report in five business days, and a recommendation that might well be to spend less than you planned.

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