Solar houses opened
Rain yesterday took the edge off official celebrations to open two new "solar energy” ■ homes built by the Housing Corporation in Blenheim. The Minister of Housing, Mr Goff, was forced indoors when he flew in from sunny Wellington to make a speech on the virtues of the houses designed to make the most of solar energy. Mr Goff told a gathering in one of the homes, at Kingswell Drive, that more would be built in Christchurch and Invercargill to compare the benefits of solar design in different locations. The design is intended to make “passive” use of sunlight by storing heat when the temperature drops. Each house cost $55,000 and the designers have forecast a 65 per cent saving on heating energy. Additional cost is involved in building the solardesigned houses but Mr Goff suggested that that was well offset by longerterm energy-cost savings.
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Press, 15 February 1986, Page 3
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