A2: Net Zero Home

Hour Detroit magazine features the work that Matt and Kelly Grocoff have done to make their Ann Arbor home the nation’s oldest net zero energy house, which generates at least as much energy as it uses. The article quotes Matt Grocoff: “What we’ve done sounds extraordinary, but it really wasn’t. We wanted to prove something by making an old home net zero and inspire others to do the same. Most net-zero homes — and there are fewer than 100 of them in the country – are brand-new, and most are million-dollar-plus homes. Ours is a Norman Rockwell house in a Rockwell-type neighborhood. The age of the house doesn’t matter; it could have been 700 years old.” [Source]