Building & Powering an Award-Winning Net Zero Energy Home

Can a home be beautiful, powered entirely by solar energy, use sustainable heating and cooling systems and save it’s owners roughly $3,500 a year? Why, yes it can. Just ask Joanne Coons, who built her award winning, single-family, Net Zero Energy Home in 2010. Sustainable Woman Joanne talks Net Zero standards, efficient appliances and goods, her […]

September 27th, 2016|Categories: Building Science, Geothermal and Solar Design and Installation Tips, Geothermal Heat Pumps, Green Building, Solar, Solar Design & Installation, Solar Plus Storage, Sustainable Building, Zero Net Energy Buildings|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Tips & Tricks for Residential Solar Installation Done Right

This is an exciting day for the residents of a small white cape in Waltham, Massachusetts; today the new solar photovoltaic electric system goes live.  A year of study is about to end and the result of all this research is about to change their source of electric power.  Today their brand new solar system […]

November 30th, 2010|Categories: Solar, Solar Design & Installation|Tags: , , , , , |
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