{"id":256,"date":"2009-10-14T17:59:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T21:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/energyrealist.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2009-10-14T18:06:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T22:06:03","slug":"energy-plus-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Energy-plus House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-255\" title=\"plus-energiehaus-in40x30-1254733937\" src=\"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/plus-energiehaus-in40x30-1254733937-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"plus-energiehaus-in40x30-1254733937\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/plus-energiehaus-in40x30-1254733937-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/plus-energiehaus-in40x30-1254733937.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">An &#8220;energy-plus&#8221; exhibition house in Mirow (Germany): <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>A solar collector array on the southerly roof generates electricity and warmth. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>According to the builders this house, designed for 5 occupants, generates approx. 17,000kWh solar electricity and from 10,000 to 20,000kWh of solar thermal heat per year.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>The house\u2019s own needs lie at 10,000kWh.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>The surplus capacity of 7000kWh feeds into the public grid and the owner is paid for the production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"><span style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\">According to the architects the energy-plus house costs about 15,000 Euro more than an equivalent standard building.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Details of this entry from S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung Aug 10 &#8217;09)<\/p>\n<p>(Admin comment: A lot of the attractiveness of energy-plus houses relies on the government incentives available in much of Europe, and to a lesser extent in the US. \u00a0In Germany it makes sense for the owner to reduce electricity usage to a minimum during the day and sell the surplus at fixed and favorable rates to the grid, and then, if needed, buy it back again at night at much lower rates to heat storage tanks for hot water and house heat.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A house that generates more electricity than it uses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}