It's an Award Winner!

At the 2012 Efficiency Vermont Better Buildings By Design Conference, the house was awarded the "Best of the Best" honor award for Comprehensive Energy category. The final figures for 2011 indicated that the house generated more power than it used. My electric meter (I am tied to the grid) indicates that I could have burned less than the 1.75 cords last winter and still achieved net zero. Still it's nice keeping my meter well below 0000 for most of the year.

Used in Efficiency VT talk

After about 1/2 year went by, my builders and energy guru gave a talk at Efficiency Vermont's Green Homebuilding conference. Here's a link to Bill's slides: http://efficiencyvermont.com/docs/for_partners/bbd_presentations/bbd_2011/Thursday%20Presentations/Thursday%20Presentations/145pm/BBD11_ShapiroHeigis_MicroLoadHomes.pdf