A home that employs site-appropriate passive solar design, site-appropriate renewable energy products, and proven energy efficiency/conservation technologies and practices, resulting in an annual contribution to the electricity grid that is equal to or greater than the amount of power the home uses from the grid. Common sources of energy generation for the N-ZEH are PV panels and solar hot water, wind turbines, and geo-thermal heating and cooling systems. Ultimately, millions of N-ZEH’s may become a distributed source of clean energy feeding the grid, resulting in a reduced need for centralized electricity plants powered by coal, nuclear and natural gas.
The saving of a megawatt of power by reducing consumption or increasing efficiency.
Net-zero means cutting greenhouse gas emissions produced by human activity to as close to zero as possible. CO2 emissions produced by human-activity needs to fall 45% by 2030, for...
A non-profit group or organization that is run neither by business or government created to realize particular social or economic pursuits, through research, activism, training, pr...