Clean energy / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...energy management: maximizing solar ROI with your EV Combining solar panels with a bidirectional EV and a smart 2-way charger transforms your electric car into a powerful home energy asset. Instead of relying solely on traditional batteries or feeding excess solar energy back to the grid at low compensation rates, your...

...energy-efficient home, to focus on saving energy rather than injecting energy.  By reducing the heat load of a home, the premium on a single BTU of electric heat becomes less of an issue if a house is designed to use 75% less energy, for example.  And while electric heating may be more expensive in a given region at th...

...energy has been even further developed in its ability to power houses! Energy itself cannot be created or destroyed, and every time an individual gets on a bike for whatever purpose, they are using their own food energy. So wouldn’t it be great if at the same time they were producing clean energy to help power devices ...

...energy in operation, material use and disposal. The standard specifies that buildings that produce more energy over their lifetime than they will use. There are already many positive-production buildings with corresponding standards, but a Powerhouse certified building goes beyond energy performance and generation to i...