Building Design for the Renewable Energy Future: Primary Energy Renewable

By Passive House California , November 28, 2021 -

iPHA webinar will take place on Wednesday, December 01, 2021. It will be presented by Jessica Grove-Smith, senior scientist at the Passive House Institute. The way we design buildings plays a significant role in enabling the transition to a sustainable all-renewable energy supply. Approaches of "net-", "zero-" or "plus-" energy don't cover the full picture. In this webinar, Jessica Grove-Smith will explain PHI's concept of Primary Energy Renewable (PER) and…

California’s All – Renewable Energy Future

By Passive House California , May 25, 2020 - Decarbonization

[caption id="attachment_552" align="alignleft" width="480"] Figure 1. Renewable energy sources are incentivized with PER factors (Logo use with permission, PHI. Original Illustration by author.)[/caption] Introducing Passive House Plus and Premium If you’ve been puzzled by the proliferation of ‘net,’ ‘nearly’ and ‘almost ready’ Zero Energy definitions and standards and have wondered just how net or nearly they truly are, take heart.  The Passive House Institute (PHI) has introduced an equitable assessment…