Overview of ten years’ experience building Passive Houses, where the focus was exclusively upon reducing building energy demand.

• Overview of the existing energy grid and its inefficiencies and vulnerabilities.

• A look at the changes to the existing grid being driven by the twin disruption of solar and battery storage.

• A look at a the rising distributed energy grid and its advantages for energy savings and resiliency.

• Making the case for direct current in the new transactional energy economy; how high performance buildings will become energy producers. 

• A look at strategies for a recent net zero project integrating Passive House reductions in energy demand with onsite solar energy supply.

• A look at strategies for just completed “future-ready” project designed in the context of resilience and the next energy economy, integrating Passive House reductions in energy demand with onsite solar energy supply to create an islandable energy microgrid.


Learning Objectives:   At the completion of this course, participants will be able to:  Explain Passive House construction means and methods. Describe the existing 20th century energy grid and the opportunities for a 21st century distributed energy grid; Summarize  the basics of an energy microgrid and the differences between AC- and DC- microgrids; and Summarize the role and importance of Passive House construction in creating the new transactional energy grid.


Speakers:
David Peabody, AIA - Principal, Peabody Architects
Craig Burton – Associate Principal, Interface Engineering
Dusan Brhlik – Founder & CEO, Direct Energy Partners


Credits: 1.5 HSW|LUs; 1.5 GBCI Credits (Self-Report); 1.5 LACES