Net-zero energy buildings : a classification system based on renewable energy supply options / Shanti Pless and Paul Torcellini.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Pless, Shanti D.

Contributor:

Torcellini, Paul A. (Paul Allen), 1964-

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)

Series:

NREL/TP ; 550-44586.

Technical report NREL/TP ; 550-44586

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buildings--Energy consumption.

Buildings.

Renewable energy sources.

Renewable Energy.

Medical Subjects:

Renewable Energy.

Genre:

technical reports.

Technical reports

Technical reports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 14 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Golden, CO : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2010.

Summary:

A net-zero energy building (NZEB) is a residential or commercial building with greatly reduced energy needs through efficiency gains such that the balance of energy needs can be supplied with renewable technologies. Past work has developed a common NZEB definition system to better the understanding of what "zero energy" means. Four well-documented definitions--net-zero site energy, net-zero source energy, net-zero energy costs, and net-zero energy emissions--were developed. Each NZEB definition has merits as a zero energy design goal, with pluses and minuses for each. In this paper, we propose a classification system for NZEBs based on the renewable energy sources used by a building. In addition, we look at how this classification is applied to the previously developed NZEB definitions

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed July 12, 2010).

"June 2010."

OCLC:

646841138