From homeowners across the country
California
5 lessons from a house that generates more energy than it uses (NPR, 2025)
How We Rebuild: How Homeowners in Santa Rosa, Oakland Went All-Electric (KQED, 2025)
Home electrification on a budget: It’s all about planning ahead (switchison.org, 2024)
Electric Avenue: One Oakland Block’s Improbable Journey to Ditch Gas (KQED, 2023)
This All-Electric Neighborhood May Be the Future of Green Living (KQED, 2023)
First family moves into sustainable home in net-zero community in Orange County (2023)
A house that is as green as it gets (NY Times, 2023)
Easy Bay Green Home Tour (45 homes featured, 2021-2024)
Marin Green Home Tour (21 homes featured, 2022-2024)
Colorado
Net-Zero Home: One Step at a Time (2018)
Illinois
Toward Net Zero at the (Frank Lloyd Wright) Balch House, 120+ Years Old
Maryland
Building & Living in Montgomery County’s First Certified Net Zero Energy Home (2023)
Case Study: A Net-Zero Rowhome (2020)
Massachusetts
Why this Boston homeowner doesn’t pay anything to heat his house (Fast Company, 2025)
Minnesota
This Old Victorian Home in Minneapolis Becomes Net Zero (2018)
New York
This Rochester couple wants their ‘Net Zero’ home to inspire more affordable, eco-friendly living (2022)
North Carolina
North Carolina’s first neighborhood of net-zero homes being built in Orange County (2023)
First family moves into sustainable home in net-zero community in Orange County (2024)
Ohio
1918 House of the Future in Cleveland Heights
Oregon
Whole House Electrification Stories (8) on ELECTRIFY NOW
This couple spent $48,000 to convert their Portland, Oregon, home to ‘net zero’: ‘The future is efficient and renewable’ (CNBC Make It, April 2023)
Texas
Case Study: Net-Zero Home in Lewisville, Texas, Sets High-Performance Standard (Architect Magazine, 2010)
Vermont
How one Vermonter found herself on the path to net zero (Efficiency Vermont)
Washington
Transforming classic homes into net zero energy marvels (Seattle Times, 2023)
Three Net-Zero Homes In Washington (1889 Magazine, 2020)
“Blue View, Green Built” Net-Zero Energy Remodel (2013)
Seattle Net-Zero Home (Fine Homebuilding, 2013)
Washington D.C.
She built one of the most energy-efficient homes in D.C. Here’s how. (The Washington Post, 2024)
Renovation with a Purpose: A DC Home Gets a Big Eco-Friendly Overhaul (The Washington Post, 2022)
DC couple on a tight budget tries for net-zero power on fixer upper home (The Washington Post)
Wisconsin
‘Just do it!’ Wisconsin couple built a net-zero home (2024)
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