Living Without Electricity Bills

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Johanna White received 12 electricity bills last year, but only paid one of them

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Chuck Reiss, a builder in northwest Vermont, had a bold plan in 2007: he wanted to build a cluster of six superinsulated homes on a 24-arce site in Hinesburg. Reiss planned to install a roof-mounted PVPhotovoltaics. Generation of electricity directly from sunlight. A photovoltaic (PV) cell has no moving parts; electrons are energized by sunlight and result in current flow. array on each house, with the goal of making the homes net-zero energyProducing as much energy on an annual basis as one consumes on site, usually with renewable energy sources such as photovoltaics or small-scale wind turbines., or close to it.

[1]: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog-river/South Farm - Johanna- 2.jpg (Photo of a house in the South Farm development in Hinesburg Vermont)
[2]: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/living-without-electricity-bills
[3]: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog-river/South Farm - Knight house - Andy Shapiro.jpg (Photo of another house at the South Farm development)
[4]: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog-river/Johanna White electric bill.png (A copy of Johanna White's electric bill)

URL: http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/living-without-electricity-bills