For years, the housing industry has treated solar panels and batteries as the starting point of energy innovation.
They are not.

As an engineer, I’ve learned that energy independence does not begin on the roof. It begins in the structure, the building envelope, and the way a home is designed to perform before a single kilowatt is generated. That understanding is what led us to develop EcoHybrid.

EcoHybrid is not a product add-on. It is a system-level approach to housing.

At Almeria, EcoHybrid integrates ultra-high-performance building envelopes, advanced thermal and structural engineering, solar generation, battery storage, and intelligent energy managementdesigned as one coherent system, not as a collection of isolated upgrades.

The result is homes that achieve a HERS rating of 4.0, placing them in the highest tier of residential efficiency and earning Gold-level certification. For context, most new homes score between 80 and 100. A HERS 4.0 home operates in an entirely different category.

In Florida, cooling is the dominant energy load. Most homes attempt to solve this problem by adding generation more panels, larger systems, bigger batteries. EcoHybrid reverses that logic.

By reducing demand first, EcoHybrid homes require far less energy to remain comfortable. This allows solar panels to offset a much higher percentage of total usage, extends battery runtime during outages, and achieves resilience with smaller, more efficient systems.

Efficiency multiplies the value of every kilowatt produced and stored.

EcoHybrid is not limited to single residences. Almeria is a pioneer in EcoHybrid Communities neighborhoods designed from the ground up around shared efficiency standards, distributed solar and storage, and resilience at both the home and community level.

What makes this approach truly disruptive is the price point. These communities are being delivered below $500,000 a range where this level of performance has historically been unavailable.

By combining HERS 4.0 efficiency, solar generation, and battery storage, EcoHybrid homes can reach 70–85% self-consumption of their own energy, dramatically reducing exposure to rising utility rates and grid instability.

Florida does not treat outages as exceptions they are expected. EcoHybrid homes consume less energy per hour, allowing batteries to last longer and critical systems to remain online without oversizing equipment.

Luxury today is not about excess. It is about control, predictability, lower lifetime operating costs, and homes engineered for long-term performance.

At Almeria, EcoHybrid follows a simple hierarchy: reduce energy demand at the source, generate clean energy efficiently, store energy intelligently, and design communities that function as systems. Everything else is secondary.

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Pablo Arce
Founder & Engineer
Almeria Luxury Villas
Build Different. Build EcoHybrid.