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How to Use Surplus Energy Generated by a Positive Energy Home

…in Anchorage, Alaska will generate more energy than it uses. Turn Your Zero Energy Home into a Positive Energy Home So, how do you get to positive energy if you…

Cities Leading the Way to Zero Energy

…national benchmarking initiative called the City Energy Project. Vermont maintains a Community Energy Dashboard that shows local information about each community’s energy use. The website encourages readers to meet specific…

Imery Homes – A Systematic Approach to Zero Energy Home Construction

…uses a systematic approach, engaging clients in a thoughtful, transparent, step-by-step decision-making process, using energy modeling and building science to construct zero energy homes as cost effectively as possible, achieving…

The Zero Energy Home Design Process

High-performance homes, especially those striving to achieve net zero energy performance, employ a number of energy efficient materials and construction practices that need to be integrated into the earliest phases…

California’s Residential Zero Energy Goals: Green or Greenwashing?

…it comes to determining if a house is Zero Net Energy that energy consumed is just that—energy consumed, and energy produced is energy produced. The best way to get to…

Four Steps to Zero Carbon Buildings

…that exports enough renewable energy to both meet all its energy needs and offset the embodied carbon in the building. This additional energy production creates an opportunity to charge electric…

Certifying Zero Energy Home Performance

…neither can zero energy certification guarantee that a home will achieve net zero energy consumption for residents whose energy use habits are above average. Nonetheless, zero net energy certification gives…

When Rooftop Solar is Not an Option

First things first. Getting your home on the path to zero carbon/zero energy begins with minimizing your home’s energy needs by making it as airtight, well insulated, and energy efficient…

Affordable Zero Energy Home Construction – an interview with Carter Scott

…He shares some of what he has learned about building Zero Energy Homes in this interview. For articles written by Carter on his Zero Energy Homes go to Zero Energy…

We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Waste

…chain. To a small extent, we capture energy directly from the sun through agriculture and forestry. But most of the energy used in the human energy chain comes from fossil…

Affordable Zero Energy Home Construction

…very affordable low income Zero Energy Homes. He shares some of what he has learned about building Zero Energy Homes in this interview. Carter Scott’s first zero energy house –…

Three Ways Energy Ratings Support Efficiency

…scores use less energy with zero meaning a zero energy home.) Altogether, 10 states have adopted the Energy Rating Index option as a compliance path to their state energy codes:…

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