The St. Johns Housing Partnership received an energy grant from the Florida Governor’s Energy Office to retrofit ten homes at The Hancock Place as “zero-energy.” The energy grant is designed to quantify the cost of creating zero-energy workforce housing with renewable energy features.
The Hancock Place is SJHP’s affordable housing development in West Augustine. SJHP’s goal is to develop The Hancock Place as a flagship community of Energy Star and net-zero energy homes and then evaluate the most efficient combinations of energy efficiency upgrades and renewable energy systems for affordable housing. Effectiveness is measured in terms of energy and dollars saved.
The flagship community will then initiate a program of educational outreach with measurement and analysis of energy usage at its core. The SJHP will incorporate what is learned into its organization as a model for replication by agencies across the state.
