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From the executive director 5 One Man’s Path to Success with NESEA 36 NESEA embraces the BuildingEnergy brand Longtime member Bob Chew reflects on the business value of NESEA From the board chair 7 By Bob Chew Seven strong new directives for NESEA Book reviews 41 COVER STORY Worth your time: Practical Controls: Zero Net Energy Building Award 9 A Guide to Mechanical Systems, is still the best; A landmark program comes of age Future Babble skewers idols like Amory Lovins By Andrew Webster and James Howard Kunstler

Green Buildings Open House 2012 15 2012 Sustainable Green Pages 47 Preview: a passive solar home at age 30, an East Harlem apartment building, and more By Sally Pick

Solar’s Role in Domestic Hot Water Heating 24 Solar thermal versus solar electric: Is thermal still better for hot water? By Everett M. Barber Jr. On the cover Residential Solar: Own or Lease? 28 NESEA’s 2012 Zero Net Energy Building Award went to the New leasing options mean new Ross residence, an Amherst, MA, rehab/retrofit by Coldham considerations for home owners & Hartman Architects (energy systems advice and review by By Chris Foley Pilsner and Amy Bowman Marc Rosenbaum). But each of 2012’s five diverse entrants could have won in its own category. Story starts on page 9.

Fixing the Pretty Good House 32 About NESEA and BuildingEnergy Magazine How a “shallow retrofit” The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) is the achieved net zero for $26,000 region’s leading organization of professionals working in sustainable By Marc Rosenbaum energy, whole systems thinking, and clean technology. We advance the adoption of sustainable energy practices in the built environment through this magazine (distributed to NESEA members), our annual BuildingEnergy conference and trade show, professional workshops, our annual Green Buildings Open House, and more. A BuildingEn- ergy subscription is $55/year, which includes NESEA membership. Copyright 2011 by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. No part of this publication may be reproduced without permission. Mitsubishi Electric Heat Pump Technology the best way to heat your Net Zero project!

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Publisher and Editor in Chief My guess is that you may not even have noticed our Jennifer Marrapese new masthead. If not, take a moment to flip back to the cover.… Now that you’ve seen it, let me explain: we have Editorial Committee rebranded the magazine you’ve come to know and love, Mary Biddle from the Northeast Sun to BuildingEnergy. Joel Gordes This rebranding is part of a larger initiative approved by Jo Lee the NESEA Board of Directors at their annual retreat in Jennifer Marrapese May. There, several board members remarked that when Karl Munzel they go out into the sustainable energy community to promote NESEA and its programs, they often find them- Editors selves wasting two or three valuable minutes of their Mitch Anthony “elevator pitches” explaining who NESEA is and what we do. The NESEA acro- Laura MacKay nym by itself does not help them connect others to our community. The same board members also shared that when they lead the conversation with “Building Copy Editor Energy,” one of two things frequently happens: the person they’re speaking with Laura MacKay either knows about the BuildingEnergy conference and its stellar reputation or immediately understands what our organization might mean to them and to the Design sustainable energy community. Susan Lapointe Prompted by these experiences, the NESEA board directed me to incorpo- rate the BuildingEnergy brand into as many of our existing and future programs Advertising as possible—starting with the Northeast Sun. This may also mean that our Green Jenny Spencer Buildings Open House program becomes BuildingEnergy Tours and that our Sustainable Green Pages becomes BuildingEnergy Resources (or something Contributing Photographer similar). If we launch a series of in-person workshops, we may brand them Matthew Cavanaugh BuildingEnergy on the Road. This is not a change to our fundamental strategy or our mission. Rather, it is simply a refocusing of our communication, especially NESEA Staff vis-a-vis people who don’t know us. Mary Biddle “Building energy” describes some of the core subject matter covered at our Dan Gronwald conference, as in “the energy consumed by buildings.” It describes our process for creating community, as in “building energy to create a multidisciplinary Rayna Heldt network of practitioners.” It describes our innovative spirit, as in “building clean Jennifer Marrapese energy resources.” It also alludes to the whole systems thinking that we promote Travis Niles and the results we achieve when we do so effectively. It has long been a priority Gina Sieber for us to make the annual BuildingEnergy conference live beyond the three days Jennifer Spencer it is held in Boston. How better to do that than to use this brilliant brand as a constant reminder of who we are as a community and of what we do best? Interns Neither the change from Northeast Sun to BuildingEnergy nor the larger shift Kelsey Hobson in our branding means that the NESEA brand and name go away. We will remain Jared Sawabi the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, a membership organization dedi- Ariel Walcutt cated to advancing the adoption of sustainable energy practices in the built envi- ronment. Nor are we shifting away from renewables/solar energy toward energy Northeast Sustainable Energy Association efficiency. As an organization, NESEA has long been defined by the fact that we 50 Miles Street, Greenfield, MA 01301 413-774-6051 (ph), 413-774-6053 (f) are a “big tent.” We will continue to cater to a multidisciplinary group of practi- tioners in diverse sectors related to sustainable energy in the built environment. www.nesea.org

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Each May the NESEA Board of Directors gathers for a two-day retreat. The word retreat makes it sound like fun and games. I’d prefer to call it a two-day board meeting, because that’s what it is. On second thought, we perhaps should stick with retreat as a ploy to ensure good attendance. Our 2012 retreat was very successful. We put our heads together, worked hard, and have something to show for it. We established seven directives for the organization, many of which involve strengthening the BuildingEnergy conference and explicitly letting it define us. What gives these directives particular authority is the fact that they came easily to the group. There was little or no wrangling, dissention, or the like. Nor was there any hand-holding or singing of "Kumbaya." Rather, it was easy as stating the obvious. I am delighted to share with you the good work of the board and of Executive Director Jennifer Marrapese. These directives are the “ends” we as a board have charged Jennifer and the staff with achieving. We have given Jennifer maximum flexibility to figure out exactly how to do so.

Directive 1: Change the brand from “NESEA” to “BuildingEnergy” The organization name and the brand name need not be the same. Only NESEA insiders and their best friends know what NESEA is. BuildingEnergy is the brand name that we can pound the pavement with to get across what, why, and how we do what we do. One of our first steps in implementing this directive is reflected in this magazine, formerly known as the Northeast Sun and now retitled BuildingEnergy.

Directive 2: Redesign Green Buildings Open House (GBOH) The redesign may start with changing the name from GBOH to BuildingEnergy Tours. “Green” and “house” don’t serve NESEA well. “BuildingEnergy Tours” would open up the potential for this program to become the fieldwork equivalent of the BuildingEnergy conference.

Directive 3: Launch BuildingEnergy “NY Metro” In addition to Yankees fans and pigeons, the New York metro area has a lot of buildings. Nearly 19 million people work, live, and play there. NESEA already has a strong connection with the NY metro area, but in the future it will be much stronger. It may begin small. Maybe with a multifamily housing conference. Paraphrasing from Field of Dreams, if we build, they will come.

Directive 4: Collaborate with independent publishers and publications NESEA’s greatest success is the BuildingEnergy conference, where practitioners working in the built environment gather to strengthen their skills and networks. BE presenters and attendees are leaders in the industry. The successes that occur at BE will be amplified by strong connections between NESEA and leading publishers. What’s in it for publishers? The BuildingEnergy conference and other NESEA programs represent a concentrated resource of people they need to meet, cutting-edge expertise, and hands-on opportunity.

Directive 5: Develop a more strategic conference planning process While one of the strengths of BE is its grassroots planning process, it is also a weakness. To strengthen the conference and its advancement of sustainability, NESEA will institute more year-to-year consistency in its planning. We will also continue to solidify the target audience as “bricks and mortar” decision makers and serve them well.

Directive 6: Clarify the purpose of membership as “service to mission” The purpose of membership is to create a source of revenue and an affiliated cadre of professionals, both of which support continued on page 42

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By Andrew Webster

Since its inauguration in 2007 by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, NESEA’s Zero Net Energy Building Award (ZNEBA) has been a revealing part of the annual BuildingEnergy conference, where the winners are announced. This year was notable. If it were the Academy Awards, each of the five entrants featured here might have won in a different category: retrofit, gut rehab, spec housing, affordable housing, commercial/institutional. It’s testament to how far and how fast the NESEA community has moved. By recognizing the Northeast’s best net zero buildings, the award aims to spur the market. The buildings must first and foremost demonstrate net zero performance. As the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has defined it, that means they “reduce energy load to the minimum practical level, then capture on-site the Thanks to solar renewable energy credits and the low interest rates of 2009, the Ross residence’s required amount of renewable energy PV system is a moneymaker. to satisfy the remaining needs.” Other criteria include continuous occupancy, Amherst, MA, home were eager to includes a cost-effective collection of replicability, stellar systems, create a resource-conscious, energy- strategies: spray-applied foam on the marketability, and design elegance. efficient building that also delighted interior of the fieldstone basement their modernist senses. wall, 3 inches of rigid polyisocyanurate The original house sported a insulation above grade, and a 2-inch warren of rooms, including a first-floor by 12-foot flash-and-fill rafter cavity bathroom that opened directly toward (2 inches of foam to create an air/ Winner the front door. Self-constrained to the moisture barrier and the remainder existing footprint and as much of the in cellulose). Windows are triple- Ross Residence existing building as was practical, the pane argon-filled fiberglass units Coldham & Hartman Architects renovation converted those spaces with warm-edge spacers. None of the to an open floor plan, reserving the assemblies was extreme, although Cash-positive upstairs for family and adding a full- exterior foam board insulation PV from day one height third-floor guest space and was a new approach in residential office. construction for C&H. The infiltration This project came to Coldham & The plan called for superinsulation target was 1 ACH50, which the design Hartman (C&H) as a rehab/retrofit job and airtight construction. With energy team considered ambitious but not with both aesthetic and environmental systems advice and review by Marc impractical in a retrofit. The final test aspirations. The owners of the Rosenbaum, PE, the insulation scheme achieved 1.02 ACH50. Photo by Ethan Drinker Photo nesea.org | 9 PROGRAM NEWS

the lead-encrusted siding, rattling windows, and failed boiler that make for a perfect deep energy retrofit (DER). The primary challenge of this building was that there were no real challenges. It already worked well. With annual energy bills of $1,500 (electricity and propane), it wasn’t even a financial hardship to operate. But the professional lure of the art of the possible nudged owner Mary Kraus of

The Ross residence is energy efficient, but it also delights the owners’ modernist senses. From left: Kraus-Fitch Architects into aiming for the master bath; Coldham & Hartman turned the original warren of rooms into an airy, open kitchen net zero. That and a 3,000-square-foot and living area. DER that her firm had done. Kraus remembers thinking, “If a house of that Mechanical systems, designed The exterior insulation scheme— size can do it, for my little cohousing with Adam Kohler at Kohler & Lewis inspired by Betsy Pettit’s Concord, MA, cape, it should be a piece of cake.” Engineering, include a 4-ton multiport foursquare retrofit—proved reasonable Working with Marc Rosenbaum to air-source heat pump with five indoor to build and has joined the ranks of calculate loads and gains, Kraus and heads (both ducted and wall-mounted) C&H wall strategies, particularly for her husband, John, considered the and a heat recovery ventilator (HRV) retrofits. options. Built to early 1990s Energy to supply fresh air to the second and Crafted Home standards, the 22- by third floors. Renewable generation is 28-foot house already had 2x6 walls provided by a 12.4 kW photovoltaic (PV) strapped to the inside to create 7-inch system on the roof. Kraus-Fabel Residence cavities for cellulose. The rafters were Kraus-Fitch Architects Interestingly, the design goals 2x12s with fiberglass, the basement did not include a net zero energy walls were already insulated to the target until construction was three Practicing inside, and the windows were double- months underway. The south-facing the art of the possible glazed casements. It was the kind of roof had been unified and cleared of home NESEA members have been penetrations in anticipation of PV, The Kraus-Fabel residence, part of designing and building for years now. but no further action was expected. an attached duplex in the Pioneer The blower door showed results However, the financial landscape Valley Cohousing community in around 500 CFM50: very good. What in Massachusetts around PV was Amherst, MA, wasn’t crying out for Rosenbaum’s numbers told Kraus was changing rapidly. The introduction renovation. Built in 1994, it lacked that net zero was within reach. of solar renewable energy credits (SRECs) and the low interest rates of 2009 promised to make the system cash-flow positive from day one. Suddenly, the PV system that had been put on hold, pending finances, was a moneymaker.

Lessons Learned This project was one of Coldham & Hartman’s early forays into air-source heat pumps. Although the multiport, multizoned system employed here was not a simple, low-cost solution, it still cost less than a comparably sized ground-source heat pump and was a reassuringly straightforward, single- A 6 kW PV system drove the Kraus-Fabel residence to net zero. “Having no energy bills has been sub installation project. great,” says Mary Kraus. Photos from top: Ethan Drinker (2); Mary Kraus and John Fabel (2); Mary Kraus Ethan Drinker top: from Photos 10 | Fall 2012 BuildingEnergy PROGRAM NEWS

net energy.” She adds that her state’s efficiency and cost-effectiveness. SRECs for solar are a great boost. “At Continually tweaking the model, they some point, you’re done paying for all moved from 50 percent better than the installation costs, and all you’re left code to 60 to more than 70, with HERS with is these checks coming in. And ratings in the 20s. In 2007, Scott built having no energy bills has been great.” his own home (2x6 walls, 1-inch rigid outboard, ground-source heat pump, R-4 windows) and moved the design to The Groton a HERS 20, well within striking range of Transformations Inc. net zero with the addition of PV. For the utility-sponsored Massachusetts Zero Energy Challenge Don’t overlook the mundane,” says architect A passion for Mary Kraus. Top-of-the-list for the Kraus-Fabel residence was replacing the inefficient 16-year- solar drives a developer old refrigerator. With this Townsend, MA, entry we see Even in this shaky The home was moderately sized, the results of a development path that Carter Scott of Transformations Inc. economy, the and the Kraus-Fabels were already developer's June 2012 good energy consumers. Steering clear has pursued for nearly a decade, since of disruptive and expensive solutions, catching the bug from an ASES article sales surpassed all Kraus found the sweet spot for deep in 2002. Why net zero? “It seemed like of 2011's. energy retrofits: for $60,000, she a good idea, like a good goal,” he says. drove this residence to net zero. And got back to one of her original goals in architecture: “Making one hundred in 2009, Transformations was selected percent solar homes.” Her strategy, as an entrant and pushed a HERS 34 given the good quality of the home, plan from the books all the way to was to let well enough alone and zero. In consultation with Mike Duclos focus on the remaining parts: better at DEAP Energy Group, the design air sealing, plug loads, mechanicals. team chose an air-source heat pump “Don’t overlook the mundane,” she for heating and cooling, 12-inch-thick advises. “What’s remarkable about our double-stud walls, R-5 windows, renovation is how unremarkable it is.” airtight construction, and 5.7 kW of Right off, the team replaced the PV to cover the remaining load. The 16-year-old refrigerator. Then—in a The Groton features a PV system that is inte- result: HERS -4 in a model called the move typical only of architects and grated into the surface plane of the roof for Needham. other NESEA types crazy enough to a pleasing aesthetic. To achieve this, the roof Transformations had found a do these experiments on their own under the system was recessed 8 inches. cost-effective strategy for delivering houses—they removed and sold off net zero—with some owner buy-in— their 5-year-old propane boiler. In “And solar has always been a passion.” over and over again. Their version of its place, two air-source heat pumps Transformations is a developer and a “5-10-20-40-60” strategy became warm and cool the space. After some builder of custom homes. The homes codified: triple-glazed windows, sub- targeted air sealing, the household produced on spec must ultimately slab rigid foam, spray-applied foam at also replaced an exhaust-only sell themselves, so the restrictions on the basement walls (with intumescent ventilation system with an HRV that design are tight already. To this, Scott paint); 12-inch double-stud walls filled captures heat as conditioned air is has added increasingly difficult energy with low-density foam, and attic flats cycled through the system. Finally, they parameters, resulting in 2009 in a zero piled high with loose-fill cellulose. added 6 kW of PV. energy building based on a design Add air-source heat pumps (COP >2.5), called the Groton. aggressive air-sealing strategies, Lessons Learned Originally working toward an energy recovery ventilator, and a “These high-performance homes Home Energy Rating System (HERS) thoughtful owner, and Transformations from the last couple decades,” Kraus targets, Transformations had tested a had another verifiable net zero notes, “can get very quickly to zero collection of strategies for both energy building. Photos from top: Mary Kraus and John Fabel; R. Carter Scott R. Carter and John Fabel; Mary Kraus top: from Photos nesea.org | 11 PROGRAM NEWS

Lessons Learned Architects for a campus master plan. It delivered the houses for reasonable Cost-effective strategies for net zero provides a blueprint for bringing their prices—and sold them to island can be a business model. In this 40 remaining buildings to net zero or residents based on a sliding income shaky economy, Transformations’ carbon neutral status. scale. June 2012 sales surpassed all of 2011’s. Now Scott is working on net zero neighborhoods, consulting with Eliakim’s Way The question was other builders, and has his eye on South Mountain Company how to motivate the buildings that overproduce—to power owners to adapt to the electric vehicles. “It’s time to tackle the Lesson: net zero is a lifestyle transportation sector,” he suggests. necessary mode of living. Number nine Eliakim’s Way is one of two houses in a “zero energy possible” Putney School Field House development in West Tisbury, on Maclay Architects Martha’s Vineyard, MA, to achieve net The strategies at Eliakim’s Way are zero so far. Designed and built by South customized for the island’s climate: A model for Northeast institutions Mountain Company, the development’s 9.5-inch walls dense-packed with eight units of affordable housing were cellulose, a roof with 14-inch I-joists Among the earliest net zero all built to similar specs and provide filled with cellulose, foam at the commercial/institutional buildings in excellent insight into home energy band joists, and 3 inches of foil-faced the Northeast, this 17,500-square- usage and the challenges of net zero. polyiso with intumescent paint at the foot building in Putney, VT, is a ZNEBA South Mountain’s net zero goal basement wall. A single heat pump

The Putney School field house presented real challenges, including siting on a north-facing slope, high-value views to the west, and day- lighting needs throughout the space. runner-up for the second year in a row (see the fall 2011 issue—it’s on the cover). What’s new—and important— All eight homes at Eliakim’s Way, on Martha’s Vineyard, MA, were designed and built by South is a second full year of documented Mountain Company to be “net-zero possible.” After one year, two households achieved net zero, and two were very close. net zero performance. Still, Bill Maclay of Maclay Architects hopes that the sustainability aspect will be was driven by the notion of true long- head on the first floor heats and cools overshadowed in the long term by the term affordability. Energy prices on this 1,400-square-foot home, and a building itself. “Fifty years out,” he the island are high, and the global single-speed HRV provides ventilation says, “someone will care about the energy future is uncertain: any notion with heat recovery. Electric radiant building because it’s beautiful, not of affordability that doesn’t encompass panels provide backup heat in the because it’s net zero.” the ability to heat a home is doomed bedrooms, and a 50-gallon electric to come up short. The challenge, domestic hot water tank covers hot Update of course, was cost, given South water. With evidence in hand of the feasibility Mountain’s commitment to high-quality With simple, elegant structures of net zero buildings, Putney School materials. With grant support from ready for net zero lifestyles in place, subsequently engaged Maclay Cape Light Compact, however, they the question was how to motivate Photos from left: Putney School; Derrill Bazzy, South Mountain Company South Mountain School; Derrill Bazzy, Putney left: from Photos 12 | Fall 2012 BuildingEnergy the owners (who’d won spots in the Way or in follow-on projects by South community by lottery) to adapt to the Mountain—might include heat-pump necessary mode of living. The answer? hot water tanks or solar hot water (they Offer a prize. To any household that left space on the roof). could reach the 12-month zero net What South Mountain learned, energy target, South Mountain offered and has the data to support, is that a one-year share at a local CSA farm net zero performance is necessarily or a $400 credit at a local fish market. a combination of a good building and Two of the eight houses achieved a willing owner. The differences in net zero status, proving what South energy consumption across the eight Mountain knew from the start. houses is remarkable. Some use nearly More important than any single net twice as much as the net zero homes. zero accomplishment, the PVs made 83 The results are testimony to the impact percent of the neighborhood’s energy of conscious consumption. over the first two years.

Lessons Learned These buildings were all submetered for hot water, heat pump, radiant Andrew Webster is a designer and panels, and PV production, and the project manager at Coldham & Hartman meters were read monthly by one of Architects in Amherst, MA. the residents. Analyzing this data, Marc Rosenbaum, PE, calls out some salient facts. Among them: domestic Well-thought-out details—like a place to set your stuff when you come in the door—make hot water heating (in all but one house) the homes at Eliakim’s Way comfortable and consumes more energy than space appealing as well as sustainable. heating. Future upgrades—at Eliakim’s

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By Sally Pick

NESEA’s Green Buildings Open House (GBOH), on October 13, is the biggest sustainable energy event in the Northeast. Last year, nearly 11,000 people toured 500 homes, businesses, and public buildings showcasing energy-efficient design, systems, and products, as well as renewables. It should be no surprise that NESEA members are often behind what you see on the tour. This year, NESEA is partnering with NESEA member Energy Sage (www.energysage.com) to host and enhance the tour’s online listings. It will be easier than ever to research the technologies you’re most interested in, plan your tour, and find practitioners who can help you with any project you’re inspired to take on afterward. The new format will give GBOH hosts the opportunity to share online what motivated them to pursue sustainable energy and what advice they have for anyone considering similar investments. It will also allow hosts to provide case study data so that visitors can see their energy savings and the financial returns on their investments. Each case study includes information about the brands and vendors involved, with links to their websites. This will give visitors useful information and heighten the visibility of our members. Through these links, visitors can also view case studies for buildings that aren’t on the tour. We hope you’ll check in with us often as we recruit more buildings for this new site, and as you plan your 2012 tour. Let us know what you think. We’re always looking for ways to provide better, more relevant information! Meanwhile, here’s a preview of the tour: five buildings, from a 30-year-old passive solar home to a New York City apartment building, that are part of the solution.

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Claremont, NH A Retrofit Revives a Downtown Landmark

Built in downtown Claremont, NH, in 1888–’89, the 36,000-square-foot Union Block building has a substantial presence in the historic district known as Opera Square. The owner wanted to preserve Union Block’s historic integ- rity but needed to improve its energy efficiency and air and light quality in order to attract and retain tenants— there’s retail space on the street level and 34 subsidized low-income rentals on the upper two floors. Given Bruss Construction’s expertise in managing energy retrofits for historic buildings, the owner hired them to bring this enormous building up to today’s energy standards. After a retrofit, the historic Union Block in Claremont, NH, uses 60 percent less energy. Photo by Bruss Construction by Bruss Photo nesea.org | 15 PROGRAM NEWS

The Jordan Institute performed lating the brick walls, but did not, due to concerns raised by the DHR about Construction managers: Bruss Construc- the initial energy audit, plus a financial tion Inc. analysis to see if the recommended the potential impact on the brick. Architects: Stuart White and David Laurin changes were economically feasible. Bruss Construction modeled and Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative implemented energy efficiency mea- Project executive: Michael Bruss funds administered by New Hamp- sures, developed budgets, and man- Project manager: Ed Rimm shire’s Public Utility Commission paid aged the construction all while keeping Building owner: Gary Trottier for the energy assessment. the building safe and operational for Energy verification: Integrated Building Michael Bruss, who was Bruss tenants. Where possible, they insulated Energy Associates Construction’s project executive for with cellulose and foam spray. The roof Solar hot water installer: HB Energy Union Block, is deeply committed to achieved an R-value of 60 with 2 inches Solutions historic preservation, having served of high-density spray foam and blown- as board chair for the New Hampshire in loose-fill cellulose. Bruss had the Bruss also installed a solar hot water Preservation Alliance. Yet he also has basement wall air-sealed with 3 inches system. And, by reglazing a skylight a long-standing passion for converting of high-density spray foam, from the and removing interior partitions, they historic buildings into high-perfor- underside of the deck on down about brought natural light into the interior mance buildings. He recognizes that 3 feet. space. A centralized exhaust-only ven- it takes a long time to replace the em- They adapted the heating system to tilation system vents the bathrooms. Green Building Highlights

• Froling wood pellet boilers, fed by a 30-ton pellet silo, heat the building

• HTP solar hot water panels

• R-60 attic insulation: loose-fill cellulose and 2 inches high-density spray foam for air sealing

• 60% energy savings Three Froling wood-pellet boilers heat Union A 30-ton silo in the back of the building feeds Block’s 36,000 square feet of space. The old oil wood pellets to the boilers. • 75% energy cost savings boiler remains in place as backup. bodied energy that was used to produce move away from fossil fuel, installing With the project completed, turn- old buildings, and build new. three large Froling wood pellet boil- over among the retail storefronts and The New Hampshire Division of ers fed by a stand-alone 30-ton pellet residential apartments is slowing, and Historical Resources (DHR) oversaw silo in the back of the building. With all the apartments are now rented. The the renovation process and had to re- improved heat delivery systems, air owner of the sister building across the view and approve all plans. As required sealing, and insulation, the building street has hired Bruss to make similar for any federally funded undertaking, has seen a 60 percent energy savings improvements to that building, enhanc- the project also had an architectural and a 75 percent cost savings; the ing downtown Claremont. historian who reported on the historic cost savings above the energy savings The Union Block project was made characteristics of the building before were due largely to the switch from possible by grants and loans from and after the retrofit. The DHR made oil to pellets. The oil boiler remains in the Community Development Finance sure that the solar panels were not place as a backup, although the pellet Authority under the Energy Enterprise visible from the ground, reviewed the boilers have the capacity to steam- Fund program of New Hampshire’s insulation plan, and reviewed designs heat the entire building. An energy Department of Energy and Planning. for such safety features as new railings recovery ventilator brings in fresh air The American Recovery and Reinvest- to see that they fit with Union Block’s for the tenants while recycling much of ment Act of 2009 funded the Energy historic aesthetic. Bruss explored insu- the heat from the exhausted stale air. Enterprise Fund. Photos by Bruss Construction by Bruss Photos 16 | Fall 2012 BuildingEnergy PROGRAM NEWS Portland, ME Greening with an Eye to Retirement

In 2011, Paul Ledman and Colleen My- ers designed and built their home—an apartment building in an urban neigh- borhood in Portland, ME—with the intention of making it not only energy efficient, but also an easy place in which to age. They live on the top floor and a half, and rental income from the two apartments on the lower floors covers the cost of running the building. It has an elevator, and they can walk to Portland resources.

Owners: Paul Ledman and Colleen Myers This Portland, ME, apartment building is 75 percent more efficient than a standard new building. The owners’ unit is expected to be net zero, or close to it. General contractor: Paul Ledman Architectural design: Kaplan Thompson Energy modeling: Aaron Despres, Up-country Building Inspectors Green Building Construction management: Island Carpentry Highlights Design and installation of solar hot water and PV systems: Revision Energy • HERS rating of 25 for the entire building, including rental units

As a consultant in the energy • 2x8 construction with 2x3 strapping efficiency field, Ledman was commit- allowing for 9 inches of dense-packed ted to making a building that sipped cellulose in walls and polyisocyan- energy, so he designed a tight enve- urate board on the outside, for an lope. The building as a whole achieved R-value of 43 a Home Energy Rating System (HERS) rating of 25, which is 75 percent more • R-60 roof efficient than a standard new building. • Ceiling between street-level garage He reached this level of efficiency with and apartment above garage is R-55 R-43 walls, an R-60 roof, and an R-55 An evacuated-tube solar hot-water system serves all three apartments, and PV generates ceiling between the street-level garage enough electricity to more than cover the own- • 4 Fujitsu air-source heat pumps, 1 and the apartment above. Air-source ers’ needs. for each rental unit and 2 for the own- heat pumps provide efficient electric ers’ apartment heat to each apartment, and he offsets Ledman decided not to provide PV his own 2,600-square-foot unit’s elec- to renters, believing that free electric- • ET Solar 7.6 kW PV panels trical use with a 7.6 kW photovoltaic ity would give them a disincentive to (PV) system. Since March of 2012, the be careful with their consumption. • An Apricus solar hot water system PV has generated well over the amount However, 90 solar hot water evacuated with 90 evacuated tubes of energy that he consumes. His energy tubes heat water for everyone in the bills “basically don’t exist,” he says. He building. Because the backup hot water With all of these green bells and expects energy modeling data that he is is electric, the renters have an incen- whistles, it would not be surprising if collecting for his unit to show net zero tive, in the form of their electric bill, to the building cost more than a conven- or very close to it. be sparing with their hot water use. tional one, but it was the same.

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cools along the north wall and drops Newark, DE back into the basement, creating a A Passive Solar Home convective warming loop that provides Green Building at Age 30 about 70 percent of winter heating Highlights needs. There are no fans or vents. Rather, the heated space between the In 1981, when Marian Peleski could not • Double shell or convection loop double walls acts as a blanket, keep- find an energy-efficient house to buy passive solar design in Delaware, she decided that her best ing the house a cozy 70 to 75 degrees. option was to research and build her This kind of passive, convective loop is • Passive solar provides 70% of heat own green home. A professional me- also referred to as a sun run, and that’s teorologist, Peleski had little carpentry the name Peleski gave to her home. • AstroPower 4 kW PV covers all experience. But she was undaunted. The sun is the primary heat source, electric usage She was driven, she says, by a personal but on cloudy days she heats with a and professional “affinity … with our woodstove, using about one-and-a-half • Thermomax solar hot water system earth, its atmosphere and environ- cords of wood a year. • White patio blocks reflect heat of ment.” She hired a master carpenter The exterior walls are insulated sun into house and a carpenter’s helper. She was the with 6 to 8 inches of fiberglass, and the interior walls with 4 inches. The inte- third person on the crew, the “nailer • 6- by 8-foot attic vents that can be rior and exterior walls each have their and hauler.” opened to cool house in summer

In the summer, Peleski cools the house by opening the 6- by 8-foot vents in the east and west gables of the attic, allowing hot air to escape. If she opens her windows on a cool night, she can close the house down on a hot day, and it will hold the coolness as well as it holds the heat. While the design might seem likely to heat up like a green- house in the summer, the house never gets warmer than it is outdoors. Planning ahead for PV, she built a south-facing roof with a slope close to the 40-degree angle that’s best for her latitude. In 2000, with the State of Delaware offering a 35 percent rebate, she added PV. Solar hot water followed in 2007. This 1981 double-walled passive solar home The interior and exterior walls each have their Peleski exclaims, “It amazes me in Newark, DE, stays comfortable thanks to a own set of windows and doors. how well this house works. Having lived convective loop. No fans necessary. here 30 years, there are only one or two Peleski chose a passive solar own windows. The exterior ones are things I’d do differently.” design from a now out-of-print book larger to allow more sun into the shell called The Double Shell Solar House, by space. The smaller interior windows Owner and building designer: Marian Community Builders in New Hamp- frame the view to the outdoors— Peleski shire. On the north and south sides, giving the impression, from the inside, Master carpenter: Vince Panico double walls interconnect from the of a conventionally structured house. If Solar hot water installer: Energy basement through the attic. The winter Peleski wants extra heat in the winter, Alternatives sun hits the south side and warms the she opens the south-facing interior PV installer: Montana Contracting Inc. air in the space between the walls, windows to let in warm air captured which then rises to the attic, pulling between the shells. cooler basement air behind it. The air Photos by Marian Peleski Photos nesea.org | 19 PROGRAM NEWS Northampton, MA Sustainable Arts and Crafts Style

Meg Kelsey Wright and Jonathan Wright had not planned to move from their Victorian home to Village Hill Northampton, the new development that Jonathan’s company, Wright Builders, was designing and building. “We decided [to make a home here] two years ago,” he says, “after the first three houses were built, in part be- cause we realized, sitting in the model-

The Wright home is equipped with a 6 kW PV system, which typically yields a credit on the electric Green Building bill, despite an air-source heat pump, an electric heat-pump hot water heater, and an ERV. Highlights house screened porch one summer 45 or lower. With their 6 kW photovol- evening, that we really liked the place. taic system, the Wrights typically see Also, fortuitously, we knew our decision • Energy Star 3.0 Tier III compliant a credit of $10 to $20 a month on their would build confidence in the project.” electric bill, even with an air-source • LEED Gold, in the only LEED-certi- The development sits on what used heat pump for heating and cooling, an fied neighborhood in New England to be a state mental hospital campus. electric heat-pump hot water heater, MassDevelopment, the Massachusetts and an energy recovery ventilator that • RenewAire Energy Recovery Venti- economic development agency, created runs year-round for fresh air. They lator (ERV) a master plan that includes 50 percent especially like the heat-pump water affordable housing. The large property heater in the summer, because it cools • Stiebel Eltron heat-pump water repurposed two of the brick hospital and dehumidifies the basement. It can heater buildings as mixed-income hous- cool the basement a few degrees in the ing. The Wright Builders design team winter, but that has not been a prob- • Pella R-5 prototype triple-pane lem. A high-efficiency gas-fired system windows Builders: Wright Builders provides their primary heat, although • Air-sealed to 0.8 ACH Designer: Nancy Schwartz Design it does not come on much because Landscape design: Berkshire Design the house is so well insulated and • American Standard air-source heat Group air-sealed. pump The home, which has a cozy Arts was tasked with creating an efficient and Crafts aesthetic, is filled with • 6 kW SunPower PV installed by Pio- and replicable design for the houses. natural light. For example, a glassed- neer Valley Photovoltaics Cooperative Village Hill now has 11 single-family in porch off the living room enhances houses, of which the Wrights’ is one, the connection to the outdoors, and a • Double 2x4 wall construction with and 11 townhouses, all built by Wright window near ground level lets light into full thermal break and R-36 insulation Builders. the basement stairway and hall. Boat All of the homes in Village Hill are prisms in the first-level flooring refract • R-64 ceiling insulation LEED certified; in fact, it is the only light into the basement and visually • R-16.5 insulated basement floor entire neighborhood of homes in New reference Jonathan’s interest in boats. with drainage and radon piping England with that designation. The Meg, a pianist and teacher, got her houses in the Wrights's neighborhood, dream music studio: it has room for • R-31 basement walls called Morningside, are Energy Star 3.0 two grand pianos and opens out into Tier III compliant, with HERS ratings of the living room for house concerts. Photo by Sally Pick by Sally Photo 20 | Fall 2012 BuildingEnergy PROGRAM NEWS

The house also has many nooks for Steve Bluestone took a chance with social gatherings, and the bedrooms the Andrew, the Bluestone Organiza- are large enough for visits from their tion’s first building constructed with children and grandchildren. With insulated concrete forms (ICFs). They have pioneered the use of ICF walls for apartment buildings in New York City, according to Ryan Merkin of Steve The houses in the Winter Associates, an energy consul- neighborhood are tant for the Lexington Ave. project. Energy Star 3.0 Tier III Fortunately, the Andrew was a success, compliant, with HERS so they used the same technique to ratings of 45 or lower. build the Lexington apartments. Rebar- reinforced concrete is sandwiched between 2½-inch expanded polystyrene foam; with studs built into the form, the bedrooms upstairs, the Wrights anything can attach to the outside. Ac- planned the stairway to accommodate cording to Bluestone, it cost no more a chair lift, so they can age in place. than their standard building of brick The exterior was designed for exteriors, cinderblocks, metal fram- Each Lexington Ave. apartment has a rooftop energy efficiency and water manage- ing, and fiberglass insulation. But the garden plot with automatic trickle irrigation. ment. Jonathan made the tapered, square front columns and the decora- tive brackets for the deep overhangs that provide shade from summer sun SOLAR POWER FOR and divert water away from the house. SUSTAINABLE Working with Berkshire Design Group, COMMUNITIES they planned drought-tolerant native plantings throughout their neighbor- hood, with the exception of a low-grow grass for the front lawns. The land- Selling and scape design keeps the storm water Servicing on-site. Renewable Energy New York, NY Systems Apartment Building Meets ICFs

Steve Bluestone of the Bluestone Or- ganization, a New York City real estate 2 ™ developer, says he has “always had ( ) green on the mind.” His new energy- efficient East Harlem apartment build- PioneerValleyPhotoVoltaics ing at 1885 Lexington Avenue models a w orker - o wned c ooperative most of the energy-saving features on another building that the Bluestone 311 Wells Street, Suite B, Organization developed several years Greenfield, MA 01301 413.772.8788 ago: the Andrew. The Andrew was their first foray into their new green build- 185 Main Street, Suite 202, ing model and was named a top energy New Britain, CT 06051 860.827.8599 performer in the city. www.pvsquared.coop MA Elec. Lic. A13764 and MA HIC 140077 PROGRAM NEWS

Green Building Highlights

• Insulated concrete form (ICF) walls with a continuous R-value of 21

• R-31 roof assembly with 4 inches of iso board

• Quaker triple-glazed windows required for sound muffling

• LEED for Homes Multifamily Mid- rise Silver certification anticipated

• Energy Star rating for Multifamily High Rise buildings anticipated

• Average air leakage per apartment is 4.7 ACH50 The pioneering Bluestone Organization’s Lexington Ave. co-op is among the first in New York City to be constructed with insulated concrete forms. • Rigid polyethylene air conditioner covers by AM Conservation Group help ICF walls have a continuous R-value of ing the apartments more marketable. reduce air leakage 21. The building also has triple-glazed Rooftop gardens are a unique windows—required by a funding agency feature of the building—New York City incentives on a per-square-foot basis. as a sound barrier, in addition to being zoning law requires recreational space The green features add up to a profit- energy efficient. when developers increase the size of able development that also matches Typically, the Bluestone Orga- a building. The elevator goes to the Steve Bluestone’s commitment to sus- nization sees annual heating costs rooftop, allowing tenants easy access. tainable building practices. “Building of around $600 per apartment in its Typically, green roofs consist of 4 to 6 energy efficient buildings has always inches of soil with drought-resistant been a passion for me,” Bluestone Developer: The Bluestone Organization sedum plants covering at least 50 per- says. “Now that it is more in vogue than General contractor: Banta Homes Corp. cent of the roof. At the Lexington Ave. it has ever been, I’m actually having fun Architect: Curtis and Ginsberg Architects site, the tenants have their own garden at work.” Energy testing: Steven Winter Associates plots. Automatic trickle irrigation pre- vents the gardens from shriveling up in Energy modeling: Community Environ- mental Center Inc. the heat of the summer sun. For meeting Energy Star and Nonprofit development partner: Hope Sally Pick’s consulting firm, SJP Environ- Community LEED (Leadership in Energy and mental Consulting, LLC, offers a range Environmental Design) certification of services for environmental nonprofits, buildings. But with the new ICF walls, businesses, and associations, including which not only insulate but also are air- writing, managing projects and collabo- tight, the annual heating costs for the With the new ICF walls, rations, and directing community-based Andrew are less than $200 per apart- annual heating costs public education initiatives. Sally’s west- ment. For the Lexington Ave. building, are less than $200. ern Massachusetts home, built in 1856, they project heating costs to be as low will be on the GBOH tour, featuring an or lower. It’s a co-op, and apartment energy retrofit and new PV panels. Over owners pay a maintenance fee that in the summer, she oversaw outreach for cludes the cost of heat. By keeping the performance levels, the New York State Solarize Mass Montague, a reduced-cost heating costs low, the developer is able Energy Research and Development solar program for her town. to offer lower management fees, mak- Authority will award the developers Pages 21-22: photos by Steve Bluestone by Steve 21-22: photos Pages 22 | Fall 2012 BuildingEnergy Ventilation, Air Sealing, and Lighting Solutions

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Visit EnergySage.com Solar’s Role in Domestic Water Heating Solar thermal versus solar electric: Is thermal still better for hot water?

By Everett M. Barber Jr.

Figure 1

As the installed price for grid-tied solar Grid Tied Solar Electric Systems Installed Cost $/Watt dc $/Watt NREL electric systems drops and the reliability Everett M. Barber, Jr. $/Watt MASSCEC 12 of heat-pump water heaters improves, the question arises as to when, or if, the cost of solar electric systems for heating 10 domestic water will drop below that of solar thermal systems (SDHW) used 8 for the same purpose. This two-part peer-reviewed article examines SDHW systems versus grid-tied solar electric 6 systems serving air-source heat-pump $/Watt dc water heaters (PV/ASHPWHs). Part one, 4 below, attempts to quantify the first costs of the two systems. Part two, which will appear in the next issue (spring 2013) 2 with comments from the peer reviewer, attempts to quantify cost of ownership. 0 —The editors 199819992000200120022003200420052006200720082009201020112012 Year

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, considering. Martin Holladay, senior buying decisions: they compare the there was keen interest in air-source editor at Green Building Advisor, even first cost of some new system with that heat-pump water heaters (ASHPWHs). titled a recent blog post “Solar Thermal of conventional systems. If this were Due mostly to durability issues and a Is Dead.” But do ASHPWHs paired not the case, many more home owners scarcity of competent maintenance, with grid-tied solar electric systems in would be buying more energy-efficient they did not survive in the marketplace. fact make more economic sense than but more costly appliances. Consumer Recently, they’ve reappeared. And SDHW for domestic hot water*? preference for low first cost over lower with prices for grid-tied solar electric For most consumers (not all), the cost of ownership is borne out by the dropping, PV/ASHPWHs are worth first cost is a major determinant in overwhelming number of storage-type

Table 1 - Approximate Installed Prices for SDHW Systems | July, 2012 Sized for family of 3.2; 64 gal/day; High sys. $ High $/ft2 Avg. sys. $ Avg. $/ft2 Low sys. $ Low $/ft2 A. North East $10,000 $125 $8,500 $106 $7,000 $88 80 ft2/120 gal/indirect; complete sys. w/up to 220 ft insulated Cu tube >0.8 solar fraction B. North Florida $7,775 $122 64 ft2/80 gal/indirect; Cu tube, insulated, up to 120 ft Cu tube to/from collectors; >0.8 solar fraction

* Note that domestic water is defined here as potable water used for personal hygiene and for washing dishes and clothes—not water used for swim- ming pools or for space heating. Such large hot-water loads are more likely to be met with large SDHW systems used in conjunction with other types of domestic water heaters—oil- or gas-fired, for example. Very small loads (5 to 10 gallons a day) are most likely to be met with small electric-resistance water heaters. Solar installations for commercial water heating—apartment buildings, laundries, athletic centers, industrial processes, pool heating— are not considered here. 24 | Fall 2012 BuildingEnergy natural gas and electric domestic 120-degree water per day, typical for a manner. Many designers and installers water heaters sold in the United States US household of 3.2 persons. seem unaware of the consequence of compared to more efficient types of shade, particularly of shade from tree heaters, such as the instantaneous Energy: grid-tied branches after leaves have fallen. gas-fired water heater or the HPWH, The annual output of 24 residential and both of which have a higher first cost commercial grid-tied solar electric Energy: thermal but lower total cost of ownership. systems in the Northeast can be seen Figure 4 shows the annual energy On the basis of first cost alone, in figure 2(below). The average output delivered by 21 solar thermal systems without incentives for either type of of all systems shown, excluding with flat plate collectors, which were system, the outcome of the comparison “n2,” which is a sun-tracking system, used for domestic water heating and, varies with the installed system costs. is 1,082 kWh/sq. ft./yr. per kW dc. That in some cases, for space heating. While the PV/ASHPWH system cost can also be expressed as 16 kWh/ This data came from an Internet seems about the same countrywide, sq. ft./yr. survey of third-party test results of the cost of SDHW systems varies much Figure 3 (below) shows the annual solar thermal systems conducted more. A SDHW system with a solar output of grid-tied solar electric by Emaan (Amy) Ammar and the fraction of 0.8 or better can have an systems in selected US localities, author. The results were presented installed cost as high as $10,000 in as predicted by the computer model at NESEA's BuildingEnergy10 and affluent localities of the Northeast, PVWATTS v.1. As a generalization, BuildingEnergy12 track sessions. and $8,500 in somewhat less affluent mostly due to local shade the actual Parasitic and standby losses are localities nearby. The lowest price output of solar electric systems is included in the output of the systems. for systems of this size that I found often 15% to 25% lower than the The average output for the 21 systems for the Northeast was about $7,000. model prediction. PVWATTS accounts is 58.7 kWh/sq. ft./yr. Using figure 5 (page 26) and $10,000 for shade, but only in a broad-brush As the basis for his “Solar Thermal for a SDHW system, the two systems are comparable in first cost at PV/ Figure 2 ASHPWH cost of about $4.50/watt dc; using $8,500, they are comparable Solar Electric System Output24 Systems - Southern system output at about $3.75/watt dc; using the low New England figure for the Northeast, $7,000, they kWh ac/yr/kW dc (average all fixed systems 1082 kWh 1600 are comparable at PV/ASHPWH costs closer to $2.00/watt dc. Note that an 1400 average for installed SDHW systems for 1200 North Florida is given for comparison. 1000 That figure is probably closer to the norm for the rest of the United States. 800 The data is presented below. 600 kWh ac/yr/kW dc Installed prices 400 200 Figure 1 (facing page) indicates the trend in the installed price for grid-tied 0 solar electric systems since 1998. Both A(5)B(5)C(4)D(1)E(4)F(4)G(4)H(7) I(2)J(6)K(5)L(2)M(5 N(2) O(8) P(5)Q(6)R(6)S(3)T(5)U(1) V(6)W(5 X(2) commercial and residential systems System (years data) are included in the data. Sources for the data are given. Figure 3

Table 1 (facing page) shows PVWATTS v1 /kW dc PVWATTS v1 misc. cities the maximum installed prices 1800 for residential SDHW systems in 1600 selected US locations. The systems 1400 1200 are sized to provide a solar fraction 1000 of approximately 0.8 or higher in 800 their locality. The SDHW system size kWh ac/yr/kW600 dc required to reach a solar fraction of 400 approximately 0.8 was calculated using 200 the computer model F-Chart. The 0 Concord NH Chicago IL Phoenix AZ Jacksonville FL hot-water load used was 64 gallons of nesea.org | 25 Figure 4 there was a hot water draw. Neither

System Output Flat Plate Collectors Flat configuration would result in maximum kWhth /ft2/yr (average all systems: 58.7 kWh/ft2/yr) solar system performance. It should be 100 noted that SWA monitored the system 90 performance, and in that capacity they 80 do excellent work; they were not the 70 th system designers. 2 /yr60 kWh /ft50 Comparison 40 30 The majority of ASHPWH sold now 20 are integral units that include all 10 components required to heat and store 0 hot water. Since the heat pump is a

A17 A18 A19 A20 A21 A22 A23 A24 A25 A26 A27 A28 A29 A30 A31 A32 A33 A34 A35 A36 A37 more efficient way to heat water than System an electric element, but heats the water more slowly, the tanks are larger than the typical 40-gallon residential Figure 5 storage-type electric water heater with F.1. Compare (ST vs. SE w/elect. resist.) Installed Price Comparison for NE US Solar Thermal SDHW 80ft 2/120 gal (0.84 s.f.) resistance heating element—typically, vs. Solar Electric for Resistance Heat & Heat Pump F.2. Compare (ST vs. SE w/elect. heat pump + resist.) 2 65 or 80 gallons. For a given hot-water for AVERAGE OUTPUT (58 kWh/ft /yr) SDHW system w/o FITC SDHW $ high (80ft2/120 gal) demand, the larger the ASHPWH tank SDHW $ low (80ft2/120 gal) 40000 size, the higher the percentage of water heated by the ASHPWH. Test 35000 data indicates that if properly sized for 30000 the load, the ASHPWH can operate with 25000 an annual energy factor of 2.3. 20000 In figure 5(left), the output of 15000 the SDHW system was based on the

Installed10000 Price of PV & SDHW Systems average output of the 21 systems in

5000 figure 4. The output of the PV system was based on the average output of 0 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 the 24 systems in figure 2. Domestic Installed Unit Price of PV System: $/Watt dc water heating with (solar) electricity is examined in two ways: by an Is Dead” post, Martin Holladay used a The Hadley system was configured ASHPWH that includes an electric SDHW system performance figure from so that when there was a hot water resistance element in the storage a study by Steven Winter Associates draw, the water leaving the solar tank, and by a standard storage-type (SWA) of two SDHW systems. The preheat tank flowed into a separate electric resistance water heater. The SWA study is also included in the data tank heated indirectly by a fuel-fired solar electric system was sized to reported by Ammar and the author. boiler. The indirectly heated tank was produce the same amount of energy The two lowest system outputs on the always maintained at a minimum as the SDHW system and excludes the graph are those from the SWA study. temperature by the boiler, thereby supplemental water heating needed by The performance of the two reducing the portion of the total water- the SDHW system. The annual EF used systems was low because of their non- heating load carried by the SDHW here for the ASHPWH was 2.3 optimal configuration. SDWH systems system. The Madison system was A solar electric system that installs perform best when the solar system is configured so that when there was a for $5.00/watt, supplies electricity to sized to provide the entire hot-water hot-water draw, the water leaving the an ASHPWH, and includes the installed load for as many months of the year solar preheat tank flowed through a cost of the ASHPWH ($3,000) would as possible and the supplemental thermostatic mixing valve and into cost about $11,000 installed, before heater is bypassed, and shut off. This an instantaneous, natural-gas-fired incentives. To find that, enter the configuration minimizes standby water heater. The mixing valve was chart at $5.00 on the horizontal axis; losses. Two systems were studied in used to limit the temperature entering go up to the green line and across to the referenced report: one in Hadley, the gas-fired water heater so the the vertical axis to $11,000. An SDHW MA, and the other in Madison, WI. water heater would always fire when system that supplies approximately the 26 | Fall 2012 BuildingEnergy same amount of heated water in the Northeast might cost $8,500 installed. SDHW system prices are read from the vertical axis. Their likely maximum and minimum prices lie between the two horizontal lines on the chart. Find $8,500 on the vertical axis and draw a horizontal line across the chart. The intersection of the $8,500 line and the green line occurs at about $3.75/watt dc. Thus at about $3.75/watt dc, the two systems are about equal in first cost. architect: Smith & Vansant Architects project: Contemporary Weekend Home In the next issue of BuildingEnergy: part Representing the finest in high performance fenestration products; Loewen, Inline Fiberglass, Euro windows and doors from Drewexim two, cost of ownership. & Optiwin, Hella exterior blinds and Illbruck window installation tape. Loewen window Center of Vermont and new HampsHire Everett M. Barber recently coauthored 52 Bridge Street, White River Junction, VT 05001 Convert Your Home to Solar Energy: A 800.505.1892 802.295.6555 Consumer’s Guide to Solar Applications [email protected] www.loewenvtnh.com (Taunton Press). He is now working on a design guide for commercial and Design. Create. Inspire. industrial solar thermal systems. He was founder and past president of Sunsearch SW-COC-001739 responsible forest management Inc., a solar thermal/solar electric design, © 1996 Forest Stewardship Council A.C. build, and service firm in southern New England (1975–2007), as well as an 64348 LWC Weekend Home CMYK 5 x 4.75.indd 1 12-07-20 2:51 PM associate professor (adjunct/retired) of building environmental technologies at Yale School of Architecture (1972–1998).

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“I’m seriously considering solar. What makes more sense: owning or leasing?” Whether you are an architect, a builder, an energy consultant, or an installer, you probably hear this question on a regular basis. After decades as a niche product, solar is becoming part of the mainstream conversation. Since the 1970s, people have been attracted to solar for off-grid living or a reduced carbon footprint. The decreasing cost of equipment and the advent of state and federal incentive programs have made it more affordable and accessible. In 2007, the solar lease model offered by California companies such as Sunrun and Solar City changed the residential solar landscape. With third-party-owned solar, home owners can install solar for nothing and “rent their roof” in exchange for discounted electricity. In Massachusetts, for example, third-party-owned solar accounted for approximately 75 percent of all installed residential solar in the first several months of 2012. In light of these changes, what does makes more sense? Below, Chris Foley Pilsner, vice president of marketing at Sungage Inc., makes the case for ownership, while Amy Bowman, East Coast residential marketing director for Real Goods Solar, explores leasing. But no matter how you choose to go solar, you are making a smart investment. Says Ed Ziedins of Waterbury, VT, of his system, “Watching the meter run backwards gives my kids a sense of pride that we’re doing our part to preserve our climate and environment for future generations.”

The Case for Ownership Home owners and communities should reap solar’s economic benefits

By Chris Foley Pilsner

Third-party ownership has introduced solar to a new audience. However, we need to do more to maximize the benefits of our growing clean energy sector within our local communities. We need to support ownership in residential solar because it offers two excellent benefits. First, greater access to ownership will increase the number of people who install solar on their roofs. Despite the attractive hook of a no-money- down option, many home owners are unwilling to allow a third party to own equipment installed on their home. “The more research I did, I realized there were more advantages to owning,” says Jim Picardi of Financial options that don’t require Shelburne Falls, MA, shown here with Cooper.

1. E. Lantz and S. Tegen, “Economic Development Impacts of Community Wind Projects: A Review and Empirical Evaluation” (National Renewable Energy Laboratory Conference Paper, April 2009). 2. Governor Deval Patrick, speech entitled “Shaping Our Energy Future” at FastCap Systems in the Innovation District in Boston. 28 | Fall 2012 BuildingEnergy home owners to forfeit ownership will a typical residential PV system in Locally owned solar offers a unique serve a substantial number who remain Massachusetts. With current prices opportunity for us to meet our energy on the sidelines right now. and rebates, the total value of the tax needs and enrich our communities. Second, ownership of solar credits generated by the system is So while each third-party-owned resources confers substantial $10,900 (see table below left). project moves Massachusetts closer to economic benefits. With third-party- All tax credits are captured by meeting its governor’s goal of 400 MW, owned projects, those economic the owner of the PV system. In the it also represents a lost opportunity to benefits accrue to out-of-state case of a third-party-owned project, capture economic value for the state. companies. Research by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory indicates Solar panels are not a car that locally owned renewable energy Whether it’s their home or their car, projects generate 1.5 to 3.4 times the some people are inclined to rent or economic impact of third-party-owned In the first several months of 2012, 81 lease, while others prefer to own. projects. The same applies to solar. With the Because of its favorable regulatory percent of solar in- right information and support, home environment, Massachusetts is stalled on residential owners can quickly come around to the illustrative of what communities stand rooftops in Massa- fact that when they lease their solar to gain—or lose. chusetts took up the panels, they lose access to valuable third-party model. incentives such as SRECs and tax Local ownership means And about 90 percent credits. Moreover, at the right site, solar is a great investment opportunity. local gains of all leased systems Jim Picardi of Shelburne Falls, MA, As Massachusetts Governor Deval are owned by out-of- did extensive research on solar. “I Patrick recently stated, “Our state companies. considered leasing my panels at first,” businesses and residents spend $20 he says, “but the more research I did, billion annually on energy costs— I realized there were more advantages and $18 billion of that leaves the to owning.” Matt Russo of South Commonwealth. That is nearly $8,000 Deerfield, MA, leased his car, but not that each and every Massachusetts those dollars accrue to out-of-state his solar panels: “I know there are household sends to other states entities. When a home owner owns the companies that would put a system and countries to meet our energy system, those dollars are delivered to a on my roof for a lot less if I leased. I needs.” Solar represents a strategic Massachusetts resident. leased my last car. But this isn’t a car. opportunity for Massachusetts or any In the first several months of This is attached to my house and it’s state to keep its energy spending local. 2012, according to the Massachusetts going to last more than a car, more Clean Energy Center, 81 percent of than three to five years.” MA Tax Credits 7 kW system solar installed on residential rooftops There are more home owners out installed for $5/ in Massachusetts took up the third- there like Matt and Jim. To keep the watt party model—in 2008, only 2 percent conversation around solar positive, we Total system did. And about 90 percent of all leased must deliver products and services that cost: $35,000 systems are owned by out-of-state support local ownership of renewable companies. If the next 100 MW of energy resources. Greater access to State tax credit $1,000 residential solar are installed with the local ownership will broaden solar Federal tax credit $9,900 same rate of third-party ownership, the appeal, grow the industry, and enrich Total value tax credits $10,900 Commonwealth will forfeit over $100 our communities. million in federal and state tax credits Policy makers in the Common- to out-of-state entities. (This does not wealth and in Washington have worked factor in the sizable value of SRECs, to create incentives that make solar which may or not be captured by home Chris Foley Pilsner is the vice president installations financially attractive, owners in the third-party model.) The of marketing at Sungage Inc., based in including rebates, tax credits, and solar full economic impact of that forfeiture Amherst, MA. Chris has managed brands renewable energy certificates (SRECs). in terms of job creation and economic and developed successful communication To understand the magnitude of the multipliers makes local ownership strategies for blue-chip companies such economic value at stake, consider even more urgent. as Kraft Foods, Unilever, Diageo, Merrill Graph by Chris Besett Graph nesea.org | 29 Lynch, and Novartis. Since she joined the grow their businesses by three hundred Sungage team in 2011, she has talked to percent selling finance products such many home owners and installers about as leases and PPAs.” the benefits of owning solar. Her primary As for the popularity of PPAs, responsibility at Sungage is to spread Kreamer says, “Consumers are not the word that solar makes good financial investors. They want to pay for a utility sense. when they get the utility, to pay for it as they need it. They don’t want to own and care for equipment and hardware. Trying to sell consumers solar systems The Case for Leasing without financing is like trying to sell Power purchase agreements expand someone a cell phone plan but saying access and affordability they’d have to have a cell tower in- stalled in their backyard. You wouldn’t By Amy Bowman sell a lot of cell phone plans that way. Many consumer goods and services are With a power purchase agreement sold as leases or PPAs, and now we’re (PPA), a third-party company develops, bringing this type of financing to the owns, installs, and maintains a renew- residential solar market.” able energy system on your roof. The company sells the energy back to you at a fixed rate that is lower than that Simple, affordable, and of conventional utility-supplied power. hassle-free Home owners can realize significant Many PPAs require no money out of savings. pocket to get started. Others require While purchasing a solar system is just a few hundred dollars—as opposed the best option for people who can af- to the thousands it takes to purchase ford a large up-front payment and plan a system. The solar provider retains to stay in their home a long time, a PPA ownership of the system and takes care of maintenance, insurance, and war- ranties. It also insures the panels and Net metering works the portion of the roof they occupy and the same as it does if monitors your system to make sure it you own the system. is operating as expected. They are in- vesting in your roof’s ability to produce power, so they have a vested interest in making sure it is operating at peak requires a low or no up-front payment performance at all times. and provides monthly savings from the For Ruth Gemperlein of Greenfield, beginning. And since cost is often cited MA, a PPA helped make solar a reality. as a key reason why consumers resist “The zero-down option was everything renewable energy, PPAs have become for me,” she says. “I am in the process popular among home owners looking of renovating my home to make it as to reduce their monthly utility bills and sustainable and efficient as possible. their carbon footprint. Solar power was an obvious choice, but According to Nat Kreamer, CEO of the out-of-pocket costs of purchasing Clean Power Finance, thanks to PPAs put it out of reach. Thanks to a power there has been tremendous market purchase agreement, I am now paying growth in the number of solar compa- less per month for electricity and mini- nies and the amount of solar they’re mizing my carbon footprint.” selling. “The amount of solar sold, Thanks to rebates, improved installed, and financed in 2011 was technology, and the fact that sunlight is up one hundred percent from 2010,” free, most PPAs will pay for themselves he says, “and we’ve seen companies in the first year. Some even pay for signed by all parties. Lastly, ensure that you to go solar with little to no up-front the new home owner passes a credit investment. You get the benefits of the check. Both options are very simple. SREC’s value, without any of the risk.

3. PPAs are the perfect solution for everyone looking to go solar. Unfortu- nately, this is not the case. Because the PPA provider is depending on the home Amy Bowman is Real Goods Solar’s East owners to pay for the energy they use Coast residential marketing director. Dur- (albeit at a discounted rate), they must ing her more than 10 years in the market- have good credit to qualify for a PPA. ing and communications field, she has managed marketing and communications 4. If you have a PPA, you don’t get the efforts covering a wide range of environ- benefit of net metering. Actually, net mental topics, from promoting energy metering works the same as it does if efficiency to helping cities invest in clean you own the system. You have an elec- water technology to making renewable tricity “bank account,” and any electric- energy accessible to home owners. ity your system produces that you don’t use goes back to the grid (a “deposit” into your account), and your meter rolls backward. For Ruth Gemperlein of Greenfield, MA, a PPA helped make solar a reality. 5. PPAs only make sense in states that themselves in the first month. Pur- don’t have SRECs. Oliva says PPAs chased systems usually pay for them- actually make more sense in markets selves in five to eight years. that have SRECs. The PPA company builds the potential value of the SREC Five misconceptions, into the net cost of the PPA, allowing explained Jim Oliva, New England sales manager for Real Goods Solar, has heard a lot of Simply Supporting Solar. misconceptions about PPAs. He shared some insights from the field.

1. A PPA is the same as a solar lease. Not exactly, says Oliva. A solar PPA is an agreement to buy power from a util- ity company at a fixed rate, regardless of the amount of power you consume each month. A solar lease, on the other hand, offers a fixed monthly payment for having solar panels on your roof, regardless of the amount of power they generate each month.

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By Marc Rosenbaum

For many years, I lived in a home I’d designed and built in New Hampshire. It got most of its heat and hot water from renewable energy (sun and wood), was drenched in sunlight, and could coast with no heat input for a considerable time. Then my household moved to Martha’s Vineyard, MA, and into a far more typical building. One of 16 homes in the Island Cohousing community, the 1,589-square-foot house is well designed and beautiful, with wonderful finishes inside and out. It was built in 1999-2000, when oil was 85 cents a gallon even on the island, where everything is more expensive. A couple of years’ worth of energy consumption records showed an annual usage of 435 gallons of fuel oil for heat and hot water, plus 129 gallons of The 4.76 kW PV system far exceeded expectations; the surplus for the year could be used to run an propane for cooking, clothes drying, electric car over 10,000 miles. and supplemental heat. I didn’t have electrical usage data, but if I guess have a clear endpoint in mind. starting—with a pretty good house. at 400–500 kWh per month, the total I knew I wanted to get rid of So I put our house into the energy usage would be in the range of the oil boiler. I think storing liquid Thousand Home Challenge (THC) 56–58 kBtu per square foot, per year, hydrocarbons inside our homes is calculator. I’m enthusiastic about the slightly higher than the Massachusetts one of the all-star dumb ideas. One THC. Its goal is the transformation average of 52.7. Energy costs would significant leak or overfilling, and of America’s housing stock via a have been around $3,300 per year—a your house is a toxic waste site. So we demonstration project of 1,000 homes third higher than for the average agreed that one goal was to end up that reduce site energy use by 70 to 90 Massachusetts household. We hoped free of fossil fuels. Next, I thought percent. What differentiates the THC to effect significant reductions. about a DER. The best DER candidates from other programs is that it is based are simple houses in need of new on 12 months of actual, not modeled, What’s the right target? cladding and roofing. My house has energy usage, and that it allows— cypress trim in and out, cedar shingle indeed encourages—multiple paths I’ve helped people achieve net zero cladding, and an 11-year-old roof in to success. It is the only initiative that energy, do deep energy retrofits great shape. It also has 16 corners recognizes that the principal barrier to (DERs), work toward Passive House and 7 roofs—hardly a simple shape. deep energy reductions is not a lack of certification, qualify for the Thousand I did some modeling and figured a technology or insurmountable cost, but Home Challenge, and even nail LEED DER could cut heating energy demand rather the choices that people make Platinum a few times. But when I by a factor of three. The cost benefit in how they use energy. The calculator set out to alter this house, I didn’t didn’t feel right, given where we were sets a maximum allowed energy 32 | Fall 2012 BuildingEnergy consumption based on house size, spending money where the cost/benefit the sidewall-vented propane heater location, and number of occupants. ratio made sense. and the oil boiler went away, it got Our budget, assuming an all-electric down to 400 CFM50. This works out to house, was a maximum of 5,375 kWh a Envelope about 0.10 CFM50 per square foot of year. On Martha’s Vineyard, this would We began with a house with 1 inch of shell area, perhaps triple what I’d like cost $1,000 a year. From a site energy foam beneath the basement slab, R-19 to see in a new house. perspective, this is under 12 kBtu batts in the basement ceiling, 2x6 walls I had noticed some settling of the per square foot, per year … I guess with cellulose insulation, 2x10 rafters cellulose in the open attic, and I got that’s why they called it a challenge! with cellulose insulation plus some the insulator back for a couple of We are allowed to use more if it’s offset with renewables, yet I wanted to see if we could hit the target as if we had none, because there are many houses without good solar access. Our house was intentionally designed with a clear roof facing 11 degrees east of south, albeit with some shading from deciduous trees. My neighbor to the south kindly permitted me to do some cutting to reduce the shading significantly. So we added another goal: achieve zero annual net energy. There was one more goal I wanted to add. The Passive House standard has a primary energy limit of 11.1 kWh per square foot, per year. Primary energy is the energy consumed to get energy to the building site. With electricity, there are generation inefficiencies, as well as transmission and distribution losses. In round numbers, it takes three units of primary energy to make Post-retrofit, Marc Rosenbaum’s Martha’s Vineyard home was net zero every month except Decem- one unit of electrical energy delivered ber and January. A balmy winter helped. to the site. So our Passive House primary energy limit would be about open attic with 14 inches of cellulose, hours to repair this. 17,000–18,000 kWh/year, translating and double-glazed low-e argon-filled Next, I turned my attention to into 5,000–6,000 kWh site energy use fiberglass windows. The blower door the basement. Given that there was annually. (I’m giving ranges because reading was 919 CFM50. already a thermal boundary between the Passive House standard calculates We first targeted air sealing. Using the house and the basement, I knew area differently than we do in the zonal pressure diagnostics, it was basement insulation wasn’t a great United States, and there are variations clear that there were more leaks from energy investment. However, it’s humid in the primary energy factor depending the basement to the outdoors than on the island in the warm season, and on where one’s electricity comes from.) from the house to the attic. I sealed insulating the basement walls reduces Perhaps coincidentally, the THC target the obvious holes in the basement— moisture transport from the soil and the primary energy target were both the door to the bulkhead and the and warms up the exposed surfaces close. window rough openings were leaky. such that condensation ceases—no I added sweeps to the exterior doors mold. I installed two 1-inch layers of and weather stripping and insulation polyisocyanurate foam, with offset Going for net zero to the attic hatch (why is this always joints, the second of which is Thermax I divided our approach into envelope, in the most inaccessible closet?). I did because it is rated to be left exposed. mechanical, appliance, and renewable some work in the attic, sealing around It also has a thicker, more rugged strategies. I wanted to keep the electrical box penetrations. The first aluminum facer, and it’s white, which investment as low as possible, round got down to 650 CFM50. When really brightens up the basement. I nesea.org | 33 used the Hilti IDP plastic fasteners larger window openings. The most cooler in typical winter weather, and as in conjunction with a hammer drill to effective ones have foil on the inside much as four degrees cooler when it 5 make the /16-inch holes in the concrete faces to block both light and radiant gets down to 10 degrees outdoors. The walls. It’s a great system. First we had heat transfer. In addition, these shades third bedroom is an ell off the living to move stuff away from the basement have side tracks and weather stripping area, and we keep that door closed, walls so I could install the foam top and bottom. Their effectiveness vs. letting the temperature float as low as continuously. A chunk of the PVC waste more typical cellular shades is evident 50, since we aren’t using it. This is an line, the water pressure tank, part of in the reduced temperature between example of a THC strategy: don’t heat the stairway, and a number of electrical the glass and the shade compared all areas fully if it isn’t necessary. items had to be moved inward 3 inches with a conventional cellular shade. Next we installed an 85-gallon so I could slip the foam behind them. There is increased condensation on the Marathon electric water heater. Once the rigid foam was installed and glass with these shades, yet it doesn’t Adjacent to it is a Nyle Geyser heat- the joints taped with foil tape, I used seem to be enough to pool and cause pump water heater (HPWH) that’s a two-component polyurethane foam damage. piped to heat the tank. I turned off the pack to spray the rim joist, completing electric elements in the Marathon, so the thermal barrier and air-sealing the Mechanicals all the water is heated by the HPWH. In sill and rim. To heat the house, we installed a January I switched back to the electric We already had pretty good Fujitsu 12RLS single-zone mini-split element and found that the HPWH used windows, yet in cold weather the air-source heat pump rated at over about 75 percent of the energy that the larger glass areas felt cold to us due to 16,000 Btu/hour. The wall cassette is electric element did. In the summer, radiant transfer from us to the glass. in the open first floor. Warm air rises with higher basement and incoming I’ve been trying Ecosmart double- to the bedrooms and bath on the upper well-water temperatures, performance honeycomb cellular shades on the floor, and they tend to run two degrees was better. HPWHs do better as hot-

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www.myewise .com INSTALLERS: Create recurring revenue by 585 420 8998 offering your customers automated, proactive post‐sales support. Performance Monitoring Services For Geothermal, SolarThermal, Solar PV water usage increases, and the two of us use only about 14 gallons a day, so we’re a tough test for this technology. The oil boiler in typical January weather was using about 2.5 gallons of oil daily. The Fujitsu and the HPWH together used about 16 kWh per day in the same conditions. From a cost perspective, we’ve gone from about $11 a day to $3 for winter heat and hot water! I haven’t added a ventilation system yet. The house has a Clivus composting toilet, so it is under a continuous exhaust flow.

Appliances and lighting We sold the gas dryer and gave away the gas range. We use drying racks in winter and a clothesline in the summer. The new range is a Frigidaire with two induction burners and two The energy profile reflects an efficient new range and refrigerator, a clothesline, and a mix of CFL regular electric burners—we love the and LED lighting. speed and responsiveness of induction. A rough comparison shows that this range uses perhaps one-third the have cost about $700. This is below the house when we got it would be in the site energy of the gas range. We gave THC target and likely meets the Passive neighborhood of $3,300 annually, so away the 11-year-old refrigerator House primary energy limit as well. the simple payback of this effort seems and replaced it with an inexpensive During that period the solar electric well within the range of reasonable. new one that uses 300 kWh per year system produced 6,779 kWh, meaning And we got a more comfortable house instead of 650 kWh. It’s quieter too. The that we had a net export of 3,024 kWh— with better air quality. house has mostly compact fluorescent handily achieving zero annual net lighting, and we replaced the high-use energy. The surplus could be used to kitchen recessed lamps with an LED run an electric car over 10,000 miles. Marc Rosenbaum, PE, director of retrofit product made by Cree for It’s important to note that we had an engineering at the Vineyard-based South Home Depot. uncommonly warm winter, and I’d Mountain Company, is a longtime student expect to use 600–700 kWh more in an of making great buildings. Much of his Renewables average year. Also, we are a household recent work has consisted of deep energy South Mountain Company, whom I work of two. Add a couple of teens, and the retrofits, Passive Houses, and zero net for, is a Sunpower solar electric dealer, energy balance would be different. Yet energy buildings. His work has been so it was an easy choice to install a I believe we could still be net zero and recognized nationally by ASHRAE, AIA, 4.76 kW 20-panel system to try to meet THC under those circumstances. EEBA, and NESEA—but they didn’t see all achieve the net zero goal. The system With the balmy winter, we were actually the mistakes along the way. To read more has performed flawlessly and over the net zero every month except December about the “pretty good house” and other past year of operation has produced a and January. sustainability topics, visit his blog: tad over 1,400 kWh/kW, far exceeding We spent about $26,000 after www.thrivingonlowcarbon.typepad.com. expectations. subsidies to get here. Some of this work was subcontracted, and some I Peer reviewer Jesse Thompson is an Mission accomplished did myself. I got some good deals too. architect at Kaplan Thompson Architects I think another person might have in Portland, ME. He hasn’t let that From July 1, 2011, through June 30, spent $40,000 to have the same work stop him from attempting to become 2012, we used 3,755 kWh, which would performed. The energy bill of this technically competent. nesea.org | 35 One Man’s Path to Success with NESEA Longtime member Bob Chew reflects on the business value of NESEA

By Bob Chew

I have a passion for renewable energy. We need to free ourselves from our dangerous dependence on fossil fuels and nuclear energy. It was this passion that drove me to blindly start a solar company in 1977, although I did not even know how to sweat a pipe. In NESEA, I found a group of similarly passionate people. Generous too: over the years, many NESEA members have offered their help, and through them I gained the knowledge needed to run a successful solar energy com- pany. Today, several mergers and companies later, I find that NESEA remains a critical source of the passion and knowl- edge that are prerequisites for success. In honor of NESEA, then, here’s a NESEA-centric time line of my career so far.

1977 In the beginning … Ah, that fateful year: I moved back to Rhode Island from Mystic Seaport, CT, where I was a shipwright, and started R. W. Chew Co. Inc., a solar contracting company. I had learned about Everett Barber, founder of Sunworks and Sun- search, while I was still at Mystic Seaport. Now I started using Sunworks’ solar hot water collectors. Our relationship would prove to be a lasting one. 1979 Best decision ever I joined NESEA this year (or thereabouts … it was a long time ago!).

1980s-1990s Learning PV from Leigh In 1986, President Ronald Reagan suddenly repealed the 40 percent federal solar tax credits, which caused the solar industry to collapse. In 1998, Leigh Seddon, (1) the founder and president of Solar Works, received a grant from the Rhode Island Renewable Energy Fund to restart the state’s solar industry. Leigh got my name from Domenic Bucci (a longtime NESEA member and the director of Rhode Islanders Saving Energy, the state’s NESEA chapter) and hired me to run the Rhode Island satellite office of Solar Works. My experience was in solar hot- water systems and passive solar sun spaces. Leigh taught me how to design, install, and service photovoltaic (PV) systems.

1990s 2003 2004 Leigh Seddon (1) Fred Unger and me (2) Jeff Wolfe and Gene Plunkett (3) 36 | Fall 2012 BuildingEnergy 2000 SolarWrights ss launched I left Solar Works in early 2000 to start SolarWrights. 2003 Focus, says Fred! A friendly tip from longtime NESEA member Fred Unger (2) helped me see that I was going in too many directions and needed to focus my energies. At the time, I was running RemodelWrights, SolarWrights, and Earth Friendly Homes, and Fred sent me an article titled “Less Is More.” After reading this article, I sold RemodelWrights, closed down Earth Friendly Homes, and focused all my ener- gies on SolarWrights. This was a key decision, and I owe a lot to Fred for his help. Fred recently commented, “My one regret regarding that advice I gave you is that I didn’t follow up with an investment in SolarWrights after you took the advice.” 2004 First commercial PVs SolarWrights’ first commercial PV project was in 2004, for the South Providence (RI) Development Corporation. We installed a 10 kW Powerguard system on the roof, or “light monitor,” of a newly renovated green business incubator at 17 Gor- don Avenue. Among the crew were Gene Plunkett, SolarWrights’ master electri- cian, and Jeff Wolfe (3). I met Jeff, founder of groSolar, at a Building Energy conference in Boston. He came down to train our crew on how to install the Powerguard system. Karina Lutz (4) worked for People’s Power and Light, which rented spaced at 17 Gordon Ave. She’s a long-term advocate and lobbyist for renewable energy in Rhode Island. I’ve always looked forward to seeing her at monthly NESEA meet- ings in Providence to get her insight on legislation and incentives that often are too complicated for me to follow. Karina also became a customer: SolarWrights installed PV and solar hot-water systems on her house. Also in 2004, I moved into a 100-year-old home (5) in Bristol, RI, and in- stalled a 4.4 kW PV system and a 30-tube Viessmann evacuated-tube solar hot- water system. 2007 Getting into wind I had read lifetime NESEA member John Abrams’s book The Company We Keep and had met him through NESEA. He was nice enough to invite me and my daughter Tory Reiff, who was SolarWrights’ vice president of sales and market- ing, out to South Mountain Company on Martha’s Vineyard, MA. John was very helpful in explaining how he had made South Mountain Company employee- owned. Shortly thereafter, I decided to make SolarWrights employee-owned.

2004 2004 2007 Karina Lutz (4) My own house SolarWrights goes goes solar (5) employee-owned (6) nesea.org | 37 The SolarWrights team (6) was pretty happy about it, as you can see in photo taken at a 2007 employee meeting in Westerly, RI. South Mountain Company had recently installed two 10 kW wind turbines on the island, and John was equally helpful in showing me the installations and answering my questions—I was just starting WindWrights, the wind division of SolarWrights. Later, I repaid the favor by helping South Mountain Company’s Phil Forest to expand their solar energy division by sharing SolarWrights’ knowl- edge about grid-connected PV systems. Another highlight of 2007 was SolarWrights’ first power purchase agreement (PPA). We installed, and owned the PPA for, a 72.6 kW PV system on the Pine Point School (7) in Stonington, CT. It was the first PV project in the state to use the PPA model. 2008 Mergers and acquisitions When my wife, Beth, and I went out to SolarPower 2007 in Long Beach, CA, we sat in on a discussion about investing in solar energy companies. We realized that the venture capital and private equity companies were looking to invest in solar integrators. Beth and I determined that it was time to sell SolarWrights, and we set out to not only bring attention to SolarWrights but also ready it to be sold. Part of our strategy was to start acquiring smaller solar companies. We acquired Kosmo Solar in late 2007 and Everett Barber’s Sunsearch in early 2008. We often used the drainback system that Everett developed while running Sunsearch, which solved the stagnation problems often seen in closed-loop solar hot-water systems. As a consultant to SolarWrights, Everett continued to share his expertise in solar thermal systems. We also exhibited at NESEA’s 2008 BuildingEnergy conference and trade show, inviting the many private equity firms and venture capital firms that had contacted us to visit us there. After interviewing a few companies, we decided to enter into a letter of intent with a Boston-based private equity firm that we had met at the show. On September 8, 2008, we sold controlling interest of Solar- Wrights to this company. After the financial collapse that occurred the next week, I figured it would be a good time to approach Solar Works to see if they would want to merge with SolarWrights. We covered the same region, but SolarWrights was 80 percent residential, and Solar Works was 80 percent commercial. It seemed like a deal made in heaven. In October, the two companies merged, and it was great to be

2007 2009 SolarWrights CT’s first community- does a PPA (7) scale wind turbine (8) 38 | Fall 2012 BuildingEnergy working with Leigh Seddon once again. In December, we changed the name of the new company to Alteris Renewables. 2009-2010 Wind, wind, wind The SolarWrights–Solar Works merger won the 2009 M&A Advisors Green/Envi- ronmental Deal of the Year. Alteris Renewables also made the 2009 and 2010 Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. Alteris went on to install Connecticut’s first community-scale wind turbine (8): a Northern Power 100 kW at Phoenix Press. It’s next to the Q Bridge on Route 95 in New Haven. And in another memorable project, we installed a wind turbine, PV system, and solar hot water system at the Heritage Flight Aviation Campus in South Burlington, VT. This project was unique: besides using three renewable en- ergy technologies, its wind turbine was the first in the country to be located next to a runway. We also did our first vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) project, a real challenge. The 42 VAWTs (9) were installed on the York Hill Campus at Quinni- piac University in Connecticut. We put up yet another turbine at the New England Institute of Technology, alongside Route 95 in Warwick, RI. In 2010, we installed a wind turbine at Nantucket High School (10), a North- ern Power 100 kW turbine. The big challenge here was that while we were trying to get approvals from the town and the school committee, the only turbine on Nantucket (Bartlett Farm) threw a blade. You can imagine the questions we were asked about safety! 2011 Enter Real Goods Solar Alteris Renewables merged with Real Goods Solar, and I started looking for my next opportunity. 2012 Latest venture: Redberry As a longtime solar thermal contractor, I became frustrated by the fact that many of the larger solar companies had stopped selling, installing, and servicing solar thermal systems to focus on photovoltaics. I was also frustrated by seeing so many new buildings getting awards for being green even though they often did not include any solar energy technologies. Just before going to Solar Works in 1998, I had worked at Acorn Homes, and there I gained valuable knowledge of the manufactured home industry. Why not start a modular solar home company? At Alteris, we installed a 275 kW wind tur- bine at Sandywoods Farm Eco-Development, where Union Studio was the archi- tect. As I learned more about Union Studio, I became intrigued by their efforts in

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the groupthink that is all too common. view. As a noted theologian once preached, • Status quo bias: This is the tendency being a believer does not mean not to stick with the status quo unless questioning the religion but in fact something compels us otherwise. We questioning it, to come to sounder use current trends as starting points belief. for predictions. While trends often tend Gardner begins this book by to continue, that is not always the case. explaining that people who make • Anchoring and adjustment heuristic: predictions fall into two general cat- Experiments have shown that when egories. The first is the “hedgehog.” people are asked to come up with a Hedgehogs know great deal about one number, they do not simply look at big idea; that is their specialty. They the facts available but instead uncon- can be characterized as sometimes sciously grab onto the nearest avail- ideologically extreme, always confi- able number, dubbed the “anchor,” and Future Babble: dent, and always correct in their own adjust to a reasonable level but in the Why Expert Predictions Are estimation. As it turns out, they tend direction of the anchor. Next to Worthless, and You to be poor forecasters, particularly • Availability heuristic: This refers to within their own specialty. Due to the rule that whatever is freshest in Can Do Better their overwhelming certainty and the memory becomes the basis for deci- Dan Gardner confidence with which they present sion making. Dutton, 2011 their information, they are the people Gardner also provides the three the media prefer to interview. The key elements for thinking like a fox. By Joel Gordes second is the “fox.” They know about The first isaggregation : combining many things and are not so invested multiple sources of information is Every once in a while you begin a book in any one idea that it interferes with more likely to provide good results and then have the strong urge to stop their objectivity. They are more likely compared to using a single source. reading it. This is one such book. You to present predictions in terms of The second is metacognition: “think- will love to hate it as it skewers people modest clarity than certainty. Scien- ing about thinking” in a conscious way, we have idolized, including Amory tists who maintain their professional- questioning your own conclusions and Lovins and James Howard Kunstler ism give probabilities—often seen as biases and attaching actual numbers (both former BuildingEnergy speakers), complex and ambiguous—and are to probability statements. The third is Paul Ehrlich (The Population Bomb, The characterized as wishy-washy. The humility: knowing and admitting that End of Affluence), Dennis Meadows (and media rarely interview them. you do not have absolute certainty, and by implication, Donella Meadows in The To explain these differences, the not going too far out in time with your Limits to Growth), Charles Reich, and author goes on to discuss the many predictions in a complex, nonlinear many others who have influenced biases and heuristics that affect not world. NESEA thought. Only M. King Hubbert, just the experts, but all of us. By Like this book or not, it is worth the originator of the peak oil theory for understanding these factors, we can reading—and finishing. You’ll take the United States, comes out looking more easily discern the nature and away a different perspective, one that good. accuracy of predictions. Here are is useful at all levels of sustainable Future Babble is about predic- just a few of the biases/heuristics he energy endeavors. As newsman Dan tions: their methodologies, history, and explains: Rather once observed, “He who lives biases; the people who make them; by the crystal ball eats a lot of broken the people who study those who make • Overconfidence bias: A human trait glass.” Something for all of us to keep them; and the general public’s fascina- that makes us feel good about the in mind. tion with and need for them. Whether accuracy of our judgment. We tend to predictions are made on the macro want to believe people who are confi- topic of peak oil or the micro topic of dent in their forecasts. Joel Gordes has been a NESEA mem- determining individual buildings’ en- • Confirmation bias: The closer a ber since 1976 and served on its board ergy loads (which has recently elicited futurist is tied to one overarching from 1987 to 1994. For 37 years he has great debate in NESEA nerd circles), concept, the more likely they will find been involved in such energy issues as this essential book provides a degree support for and confirmation of that efficiency, renewables, and security, as of critical thinking sometimes lost in well as climate change and its poten- nesea.org | 41 BOOK REVIEWS tial impact on the insurance industry In a very readable style, Calabrese Agreed: It’s (Almost) All About BuildingEnergy and national security. He has authored discusses the nature of various from page 7 a number of professional and popular mechanical systems and the controls articles pertaining to energy, including that serve them. He addresses such our mission. What members get in distributive generation and grid resiliency common control schemes as outdoor return is a strong organization that in particular. From 1987 to 1991 he took resetting of water temperatures, night helps to advance the professional and time out to serve as a Connecticut state set-back and morning warm-up, and business goals of contributors. NESEA legislator and was vice chairman of the outside air economizer operation members understand that the whole is Energy and Public Utilities Committee. for “free cooling.” He also discusses greater than the sum of its parts. One methods and strategies of control, does not receive a T-shirt and a coffee sensors and controllers, end de- mug for supporting NESEA. Rather, vices, dampers, actuators and control one does good and gets business. valves, and variable-speed drives. Directive 7: Make the BuildingEnergy conference the defining program It is acknowledged that the This remains the BuildingEnergy conference, of single best book I have all NESEA programs, is the most ever encountered successful at serving the mission on this topic. and providing the financial stability that supports our operations. In this new model, other programs will be derivatives of the conference or will Equipment covered includes air han- strengthen it, and will make its benefits dlers and rooftop units, variable air year-round. volume (VAV) and fan-powered boxes, Practical Controls: A Guide exhaust fans and systems, pumps and I invite your feedback on these posi- to Mechanical Systems pumping systems, boilers, chillers, tions: james@petersen heat exchangers, and more. engineering.com. Steven R. Calabrese I have found Practical Controls The Fairmont Press, 2003 to be a very useful, one-of-a-kind By Bart Bales reference that gives building profes- sionals a unique understanding of and Many an energy engineering consultant valuable insights into the practical James Petersen can attest that in large commercial application and operation of modern Chair, NESEA Board of Directors and institutional buildings, control controls. james petersenengineering.com of mechanical systems is critical to @ optimal building performance. That is, to minimizing energy use and ensuring James Petersen is a mechanical engineer and occupants’ comfort. Bart Bales, PE, MSME, of Bales Energy the founder of Petersen Engineering (www In today’s data-rich environment, Associates provides energy analysis, .petersenengineering.com). All of his firm’s developing a pragmatic sense of a giv- design, and implementation of high- projects reflect his commitment to integrated en technology can be challenging. With performance mechanical, electrical, and design with a goal of significantly elevating Practical Controls: A Guide to Mechanical renewable energy systems for buildings building performance. For the past five Systems, Steven Calabrese fills this gap and facilities. His approach emphasizes years, James has also been a BE educational with regard to control of mechanical whole systems and building science. He session track chair. systems. Although nearly a decade old, is a registered professional mechanical it remains the single best book I have engineer in Massachusetts, Connecticut, ever encountered on the topic. It’s a New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. fine reference for contractors, engi- He is a past member of the NESEA neers, architects, HVAC technicians, board of directors and a regular speaker and others. at the BuildingEnergy conference.

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One Man’s Path to Success with NESEA from page 39 sustainable development and the New Urbanism movement. Founder Donald Powers had worked for my design- build company in the summer of 1984, while he was going to architectural school. Last fall, I approached him about starting a company that would design a new generation of modular solar homes that would be attractive, green, and fit into the traditional New The Solution to Stormwater Runoff England architectural style that Union Studio is known for. This new company is Right Under Your Feet is Redberry LLC (www.redberryliving Aqua-Bric® and Eco-Stone® Permeable Pavement .com). I’m working with Everett Barber Ideal permeable pavers offer built-in technology - the pavement and base act again. These days, he’s a consultant, as a stormwater treatment system that reduces or eliminates runoff and he’s is helping me with some tech- to reduce pollutants and improve water quality. nical questions regarding the passive- ■ High-strength 9000psi pavement ■ Easy to clean and maintain solar batch hot-water heaters we are ■ ADA compliant ■ Cost competitive to porous asphalt using in the Redberry homes. ■ Freeze-thaw and snow-plow safe ■ Qualifies for LEED® credits With John Haley, I’ve also started a Ideal Concrete Block Company, Inc. new company called Opechee Innova- www.IdealConcreteBlock.com tions, which is inventing new renewable Serving New England Since 1923 energy systems and green products. CALL 1-800-24-IDEAL FOR A PERMEABLE LUNCH & LEARN The Chew Solar Loft, for example, uses passive solar energy for space heating along with an innovative passive solar hot water heating system. Many of the Redberry designs incorporate the Chew Solar Loft. At Opechee Innovations we are also working on a new type of wall-mounted solar hot-air collector and a new type of solar hot air heating system that is mounted on flat roofs. We expect to build our prototypes this fall and test them this winter. My current goal at Redberry is to Getting green develop the necessary systems for rapid, glitch-free growth in early 2013. RIGHT We’ll need more talented, passionate since1974 professionals—and NESEA is the first place I’ll go looking for them.

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Chew, * Architectural design for projects Powers, AIA and Douglas Kallfelz, Specialties: Photovoltaics, Solar LLC., Chew served as President that range from common sense AIA, principals at Union Studio Hot Water, Wind of the Wind Business at Alteris green to cutting-edge sustainable (unionstudioarch.com) and John Renewables and Chief Sustainability design Haley that is bringing a new genera- Officer. * LEED/sustainability technical tion of modular solar homes to the consulting and management for New England market. Redberry 68 | Fall 2012 BuildingEnergy SUSTAINABLE GREEN PAGES homes incorporate a grid-connected Renewable Sales, LLC Robert L. Spencer, AICP - Environ- S&H Construction photovoltaic system with the Chew Price, Kevin Leef, Jamie Solar Attic to provide cost-effective mental Planning Consultant 16 Everett St. Spencer, Robert 26 New St. passive/active solar heating coupled Holliston, MA 01746 Cambridge, MA 02138 with an innovative passive solar 15 Christine Ct. 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