Harvest Wins Prestigious Home Design Prize from Home Builders at 61st Gold Nugget Award
June 24 2024 - 12:42PM
It isn’t every day that a mechanical system wins a prestigious
design award from home builders. But that’s exactly what happened
at this year's Gold Nugget Award presented by PCBC. Harvest’s
groundbreaking Smart Thermal Battery™ won the Grand Prize for
Innovative Housing Concepts - Construction Technology for Next
Generation HVAC for its project at a KB Home development in
Manteca, CA.
The smartest heating on Earth stands out from ordinary HVAC
systems by combining heat pump technology with thermal energy
storage to uniquely slash home emissions, reduce monthly heating
bills, and offer residents superior comfort. For home builders, it
captures higher incentives and tax credits.
“Harvest is proud to have partnered with KB Home to demonstrate
the value of our HVAC and hot water system,” said Pierre Delforge,
Harvest’s Head of Product and Operations at the Art of Design
Awards Ceremony. “By harvesting clean, low-cost solar energy,
Harvest makes homes more sustainable and affordable, while lowering
costs for the project developer. I thank KB Home and the operations
team at Villa Ticino for their great partnership on this project.
And the Gold Nugget Award jury for recognizing Harvest’s
game-changing potential for affordable and grid-friendly home
decarbonization.”
“Gold Nugget Award winners reflect our industry’s best,
brightest, and most innovative architects, planners, and
builder/developers,” said Judging Chairman and Gold Nugget
ceremonies administrator Lisa Parrish. “We salute these creators
for their excellent work in a year where inspiration, generosity,
and results were essential to our industry’s advancement.”
KB Home partnered with Harvest to install its smart HVAC heat
battery in their Terra at Villa Ticino development in Manteca, CA.
The Harvest system will reduce building energy code compliance
costs, make meeting Energy Star and Zero Energy Ready standards
easier and cheaper, and earn higher bonus rebates from the
California Energy Smart Homes program. It shifted 84% of the energy
used for heating and hot water to off-peak times enabling
low-carbon, low-cost operation.
The Harvest Pod® operates a heat pump to store heat when solar
electricity is cheap, clean, and plentiful. Stored heat is
distributed from the heat battery as space heat and hot water
whenever needed – especially in mornings and evenings when people
rely on their heating and hot water and the grid is dirtier and
more expensive. The system cuts emissions by 90% compared to gas,
40% lower than an equivalent heat pump system. And it lowers
monthly heating and hot water bills by up to 30%.
ABOUT HARVESTHarvest, the leader in thermal
storage for residential HVAC, developed and commercialized its
breakthrough Smart Thermal Battery™ for affordable, low-carbon
heating, cooling, and hot water. The award-winning, cloud-enabled
Harvest Pod® uses software, sensors, and controls to leverage the
cheapest, cleanest electric rates for home heating and hot water.
Deployed at scale, Harvest also supports a cleaner, more
affordable, and more resilient electric grid.
Founded in 2019, Harvest has received numerous awards including
being named to TIME’s Top GreenTech Company 2024 list and as a
finalist for Reuters Global Energy Transition 2024 award. Harvest
has raised nearly $11 million including support from the National
Science Foundation, the California Energy Commission, Peninsula
Clean Energy, Venture funds, and private investors.
ABOUT THE GOLD NUGGET AWARDNow in its 61st
year, GNA is the largest and most prestigious competition of its
kind in the nation. It honors design and planning achievements in
community and home design, green-built housing, site planning,
commercial, retail, mixed-use development, and specialty housing
categories. Winners this year were chosen from over 675 entries
from around the world.
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at
https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/2403e3d5-d9af-4919-bb22-16a89dbd226b
CONTACT:
David Tuft, Communications Director
Harvest
202-494-0813
david@harvest-thermal.com