From a second-floor perch atop their Sandia Park, New Mexico, home, Torkil and Susan Olsen can watch as summer lightning streaks across the heavens or snowstorms blanket the mountain ranges that ring their house.

And they’re warm. Always.

The couple, parents to a teenage daughter, have a name for their home five miles off the Turquoise Trail, the mountain highway that runs between the Sandia and the Ortiz mountains, connecting Albuquerque and Santa Fe for travelers in less than a hurry. Solbakken they call it, meaning “sunny hill” in Torkil’s native Danish language.

And sunny it is, even in the coldest of winters. Here, on this 10-acre, lightly wooded plot, if the sun is shining, it’s working. The fiery orb heats the family’s water, powers their appliances, provides warm floors underfoot, and even keeps the horse stable warm on chilly evenings.

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