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DOE Promotes Zero-Net Energy Development

DOE is pushing zero-net energy development, but is it a practical way to solve the growing energy problem?

By Debra Hazel | Updated on August 15, 2008

PALO ALTO, CA-Move over, Dubai. The US government has announced initiatives to encourage the development of commercial buildings that produce as much energy as they consume–as some private entities already are doing in the Middle East and elsewhere.

On Aug. 5, the US Department of Energy announced the launch of a new Zero-Net Energy Commercial Building Initiative (CBI) with establishment of the National Laboratory Collaborative on Building Technologies Collaborative (NLCBT). Both, the agency says, are part of ongoing efforts to encourage the development of buildings that use technology to offset their energy use from the electricity grid by 2025. Energy generation will be achieved through advanced energy efficiency technologies and on-site renewable energy generation systems, such as solar power and geothermal energy.

“DOE’s Commercial Building Initiative and the Collaborative are urgently needed to accelerate innovation and market adoption in the field of high performance buildings,” says Deputy Assistant Secretary David Rodgers in the announcement. “Now we are bringing to bear the unprecedented collaboration in scientific resources of five National Laboratories to bring about the needed transformation of the built environment, lower our carbon footprint in buildings and accelerate commercial deployment of clean, efficient building technologies.”

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