Zero Energy Districts - Completed

Zero Energy Districts - Completed

Zero Energy Districts are an important pathway toward optimizing energy efficiency in new construction because of the cost savings and environmental and economic benefits they can provide. Zero Energy Districts are designed and built to maximize energy efficiency and use renewable energy at a district scale. Accelerator partners worked to demonstrate the practicality of taking action to cost-effectively meet zero energy goals and commitments. By completing a detailed energy master plan, governance and business case model, and development pathway for a Zero Energy District, partners worked to identify the best practice approaches of considering well-defined energy performance goals and incentives for the entire building and district lifecycle.

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Featured Solutions

This guide was developed with partners throughout the United States to demonstrate how implementing district-scale high-performance strategies can be successful and scalable approaches to achieving deep energy savings that increase affordability, improve resilience, reduce emissions, and foster economic development.
This conference paper introduces zero energy districts, reviews the structure of the Zero Energy District Accelerator, discusses the value of energy master planning, presents barriers to zero energy districts and how these are being addressed by zero energy district pioneers, and suggests pathways for wide-scale replication. 

Other Resources

Fact Sheet

Zero Energy Districts provide an opportunity to optimize energy efficiency in new construction because of the integration aspects that lead to increased cost savings and environmental and economic benefits.

Guidance

Access definitions for a zero energy building which produces enough renewable energy to meet its own annual energy consumption requirements, thereby reducing the use of non-renewable energy in the building sector.

Presentation

The ZEBs just keep coming! Learn how a bank, an elementary school and a manufacturing complex are using the zero energy design process of integrating energy and architecture to become leaders in their industry.

Sector Priorities

Partners

A-Z

Denver National Western Center
EcoDistricts
Ford Twin Cities Assembly Plant Redevelopment Project
Huntington Beach, CA
National League of Cities
Rocky Mountain Institute
Sun Valley EcoDistrict
The Fresno Energy Performance District
U.S. Green Building Council
Western New York Manufacturing ZNE District
Xcel Energy

Location

California

Huntington Beach, CA
The Fresno Energy Performance District

Colorado

Denver National Western Center
Rocky Mountain Institute
Sun Valley EcoDistrict
Xcel Energy

District Of Columbia

EcoDistricts
National League of Cities
U.S. Green Building Council

New York

Western New York Manufacturing ZNE District