Prior to starting our business we built a super-energy efficient, net zero energy home for Spartan and his family in Greenfield Massachusetts. That home recently won a regional building contest for net zero homes! It is a huge honor to have won and be recognized. In addition to a substantial prize, we had the opportunity to present in Boston at the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association's (NESEA) annual Building Energy conference. NESEA will also be hosting a Pro-Tour at our home on May 1st.
One of our missions has been to help people learn about how to make their buildings more energy efficient and having our home be recognized will help us towards this goal. Also toward this end, we have a blog where we documented the entire-design build process from including temperature, humidity, and energy data logged since spring 2012.
During the inaugural year of our small 4.5 kW PV system (Oct 2013 - Oct 2014) our home generated as surplus of 500 kW. This performance did not come at the cost of comfort: the average indoor winter-time temperature during this time period was 68 degrees F. In addition to creating a high-performance home, we strove to decrease the carbon footprint of created by construction. We reduced high carbon footprint materials like concrete, foam, and drywall. We also used a significant amount of salvaged materials including siding, windows, doors, sinks, cabinets, stone flooring, and foam insulation board.
The Net Zero Energy Building (ZNEB) contest is put on every year by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA). There were six other finalists including entries by the well-known building scientist Marc Rosenbaum and fine-home builder Jamie Wolf.
We thank all of our friends and family for making this project possible. Especially Adam Heintz, our lead carpenter who is also our partner here at Spartan Solar.
One of our missions has been to help people learn about how to make their buildings more energy efficient and having our home be recognized will help us towards this goal. Also toward this end, we have a blog where we documented the entire-design build process from including temperature, humidity, and energy data logged since spring 2012.
During the inaugural year of our small 4.5 kW PV system (Oct 2013 - Oct 2014) our home generated as surplus of 500 kW. This performance did not come at the cost of comfort: the average indoor winter-time temperature during this time period was 68 degrees F. In addition to creating a high-performance home, we strove to decrease the carbon footprint of created by construction. We reduced high carbon footprint materials like concrete, foam, and drywall. We also used a significant amount of salvaged materials including siding, windows, doors, sinks, cabinets, stone flooring, and foam insulation board.
The Net Zero Energy Building (ZNEB) contest is put on every year by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA). There were six other finalists including entries by the well-known building scientist Marc Rosenbaum and fine-home builder Jamie Wolf.
We thank all of our friends and family for making this project possible. Especially Adam Heintz, our lead carpenter who is also our partner here at Spartan Solar.
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