The Sommerset community is a gigantic leap forward in the evolution of new home building. Built by Concordia Homes, Sommerset is a community of many 1st in the new home industry.
 Sommerset is the 1st community in Nevada to be an all solar powered community. Solar powered homes are available from the 200,000’s, where an average Nevada family can afford.  Sommerset is the 1st new home community in the Southwest for sale with all homes built by Concordia under the GE ecomagination homebuilder program.  Sommerset is the 1st community in Nevada to incorporate GE SmartCommand Dashboards into all homes. This interactive wall panel provides current and historical feedback on electricity consumption,indoor water consumption and solar power production. WOW!
 What is ecomagination?: Ecomagination is GE’s commitment to imagine and build innovative technologies that address customers’ environmental and financial needs. Simply stated homes inspired by ecomagination are designed to save you money, curb natural resource consumption, and provide a blueprint to build homes that are better for the environment. “GE has created a whole-home solution that benefits the environment and your wallet. Designed to lower overall household energy consumption, emissions and indoor water consumption, homes inspired by ecomagination combine building science with high performance products.”
 Why Solar? Concordia Homes understands that energy costs are rising at an inconceivable rate, and it’s seems that there is no relief in sight. Solar energy is a source of energy that is in abundance in the Las Vegas Valley. Las Vegas seems to be the natural place to incorporate Solar technology into the new homes being built. We have concluded that by building a home incorporating Solar power, ecomagination products from GE, along with Environments for Living Certified Green program, we would be able to build a home that will have the ability at times of producing more power than it consumes thereby eliminating that dreaded ever increasing electric bill. Solar homes are also connected to the power-grid, therefore if a home at Sommerset is producing more energy than it is consuming the home actually becomes a mini power plant and is now selling electricity back to the power company reducing the consumers utility bills.
 Some have stated that building homes with Solar is too expensive: We feel that the exact opposite is true, in fact we have calculated the additional expense that goes into a Solar powered home, combined with ecomagination products from GE and Environments for Living Certified Green program. It not only produces a significantly superior home when compared to an industry standard home being constructed today, but when you offset the additional monthly expense of the house payment to the savings generated from lower utility bills, the homeowner is saving a significant amount of money monthly. In addition the homeowner will save more when you add the potential increased home value, Energy tax credits, Governmental tax credits, and the Hedging the homeowner receives against future utility bill increases.
 How am I saving Water? All of the Homes at Sommerset also come included with state of the art GE appliances.
 Washer Technology -The HydroMotion™ wash system uses as little as 10 gallons of water for a small load and 15 gallons for an average-size load. If every U.S. household currently using a non-ENERGY STAR® washer replaced it with a GE front-load washer:
» The water saved each year would fill more than one million Olympic-sized swimming pools.
» Consumers would save a combined annual total of more than US$ 3 billion in water bills.
» Nearly 9 trillion gallons of water would be saved over 12 years, enough water to sustain every person on the planet for three days.*
 Dishwasher Technology -If every dishwasher in the U.S. could be replaced by a GE model with SmartDispense™ technology, we could have the potential to save more than 750,000 tons of dishwashing detergent annually.*
 Refrigerator Technology - The decrease in greenhouse gas emissions over the life of all the GE ENERGY STAR®-qualified refrigerators that were sold in 2005 is equivalent to eliminating more than 71,000 cars from U.S. roads for an entire year.
A GE ENERGY STAR®-qualified refrigerator featuring the ClimateKeeper2™ system keeps food garden fresh longer than conventional refrigerators.*
 Lighting Technology - If every household in the U.S. replaced just one 100-watt incandescent light bulb with a GE compact fluorescent light bulb, over the bulbs' lifetime, we would save enough energy to power more than 1 million U.S. homes for an entire year.*
 Come visit Sommerset built by Concordia Homes and see why Sommerset is being lauded as one of the most exciting and anticipated new home communities to come along in years.
* GE ecomagintion SM website |
