Win a $10,000 Zero Net Energy Building Award!

Think your house is the best Zero Net Energy building in the Northeast? 
 
You could win $10,000! The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA), a membership organization with a mission to advance the adoption of sustainable energy practices in the Built Environment, is on the search for this year’s $10,000 Zero Net Energy Building Award. They’re looking for the […]

November 21st, 2014|Categories: Building Science, Green Building, Zero Net Energy Buildings|Tags: , , |

How 30 People Learned to Design a Zero Net Energy Home

Last year the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association launched a year-round ‘Masters Series’ to extend the reach of  popular Building Energy Conference.  Marc Rosenbaum, one of the most popular presenters at the conference, taught a Zero Net Energy Homes course – I was asked to help as an administrator, and what I witnessed was the greatest […]

“If you can’t install solar at $3.45/watt, you’re going out of business.” Straight Talk on Solar with Jigar Shah at NESEA 2012

Jigar Shah was my favorite presenter at this year’s Building Energy Conference.  Mr. Shah founded SunEdison in 2003 and sold it five years later for $200 million.  Here are some quotes he offered up in the “Energy Subsidies and the Future of Solar: Where Do We Go From Here?” session:

He outlined a 25kw project in […]