Be Lean, Be Mean and Be Green – Strategy for Design and Performance of NZEB
Dr Satish Kumar | PhD and LEED Fellow |President and Executive Director of the Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE) To me, a Net or Near Zero Energy Building…
What is net zero building?
Mr Sanjay Prakash | Director, SHiFT It has become trendy in the last few years to talk of ‘net-zero’ buildings, even ‘net-positive’ buildings. While the idea of a building being…
Promoting Use of Solar Air-conditioning in Net Zero Energy Buildings
Dr Jyotirmay Mathur | Faculty, MNIT While net zero energy buildings are making their space in the building sector in India, the next logical step in this direction is to…
Multiplying Zero Buildings: A survey of the issues
Prasad Vaidya |Director, Solar Decathlon India A Net Zero Energy (NZE) Building produces as much renewable energy as it consumes over the course of a year. Behind the NZE concept…
Achieving net-zero energy
Mr Toine van Megen | Co-founder, Auroville Consulting | The Energy Pyramid:
The road map towards net-zero energy buildings or urban settlements includes the steps as shown in the energy pyramid below.
The Role of Green Building Rating Tools in Advancing NZEBs
Ms Mili Majumdar | Managing Director, GBCI India | The Bayer eco-commercial building located in the clean and green Bayer Campus, Greater Noida, India and the ZEB building in bustling campus of Building Construction Authority, Singapore are thousands of miles apart, yet have a common connecting thread. Both are shining examples of buildings that produce equal or more energy on site than they consume, namely net zero energy building or net positive building.
Integrated Approach for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Buildings in the PACE-D TA Program
Apurva Chaturvedi | Senior Clean Energy Specialist, USAID India | The concept for Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB) Knowledge Portal and Alliance has emerged from the regular interactions with building and policy experts, and also our own experiences over the last three years. Sustainable buildings experts from India and NZEB experts from countries with advanced NZEB policies such as Japan, the U.S. and Europe have shared their perspectives during workshops organized by the USAID-funded PACE-D TA Program.
Introducing NZEB Portal
Anamika Prasad | Director, Environmental Design Solutions | A Nearly Zero (also called Net-Zero) Energy Building (NZEB) can be succinctly described as a ‘highly energy efficient, grid-connected building that generates at least as much energy through on-site renewable sources as it uses, accounted for annually’.
Building Energy Efficiency in India
Mark Newton | Team Leader, Office of Clean Energy and Environment, USAID/India | There is a discernable shift towards high performance buildings in India. State and city municipalities are prescribing green buildings norms for buildings. This is an encouraging sign for the future trajectory of the building sector.
August 2020
Monthly updates about our initiatives, global highlights and everything NZEB! August 2020 The year 2020 continues to be extraordinary in more ways than one. Human life has been impacted globally…