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By Chris Crowell
March 17, 2025
Factory-built homebuilder, Champion Homes, is launching a new solar-ready manufactured home called EcoWise. Now available in the Northeastern United States, EcoWise homes are produced in Champion Homes’s Sangerfield, N.Y., manufacturing facility.
According to the National Association of Home Builders’ 2021 “What Home Buyers Really Want” report, energy efficient features are one of the top “most-wanted” features in a home. The survey stated that 83% of buyers desire ENERGY STAR Certified windows, 81% of buyers desire ENERGY STAR Certified appliances and 80% of buyers desire energy efficient lighting. Going a step further and including space for a future solar PV installation just makes sense.
With more than 70 years of homebuilding experience and 48 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States and western Canada, Champion Homes pumps out an array of manufactured and modular homes, ADUs, park-models and modular buildings for the single-family, multi-family and hospitality sectors.
The new EcoWise homes are designed to meet or exceed the federal government’s most rigorous guidelines for high-performance homes as a part of the U.S. Department of Energy Zero Energy Ready Home program.
Solar-ready with EcoWise
Champion notes that EcoWise homes are designed completely ready for solar panels to be installed with space for PV equipment including reserved space for inverter, breaker slots and routing for cabling.
EcoWise homes are also durable, comfortable homes that offer better temperature control, improved air quality and more efficient water usage. These essential benefits may result in lower costs for buyers to maintain and live in their home.
Buyers can purchase Champion Homes’s EcoWise homes from independent manufactured home retailers in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire.
Champion Homes construction
The offsite construction techniques used by Champion Homes are a faster way to build the energy efficient homes buyers are looking for. Champion Homes utilizes a skilled, centralized workforce in manufacturing facilities where homes are protected from the elements during construction. These efficiencies contribute to quicker project timelines, which can enable residents to move in faster and avoid expenses associated with construction delays.
In addition to being solar-ready EcoWise homes come with an abundance of energy efficient features, including:
- ENERGY STAR® Rated Appliances & Fixtures
- ENERGY STAR® Certified Whirlpool® appliances such as a programmable thermostat, a Rheem® Hybrid Heat Pump water heater and Airquest furnace.
Tight Energy Envelope - Energy efficient windows.
- High-performance insulation in the walls, floor and roof
- Low-emission building materials, including paints and carpet
- Energy efficient LED lighting
“Energy efficiency ranks high on buyers’ list of priorities when they’re shopping for a home, and we’re excited to offer EcoWise homes to provide what they’re asking for,” said James Davis, Sales Manager of Champion Homes’s Sangerfield, N.Y., manufacturing facility.
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