BUILDING NET ZERO HOMES IN TEXAS

Study pushes for solar homes in Texas
October 1, 2009 (AP via Dallas Morning News)

["Building for a Clean Energy Future] from…[Environment Texas] says Texas can dramatically clean up its skies and save billions in utility bills with solar-powered homes."

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"The Environment Texas Research and Policy Center's study… says the savings would come from building "net-zero homes" that can generate the same amount of energy they use.

"…[R]educed annual emissions in the nation's leading greenhouse-gas producing state would be the equivalent of cutting the pollution of more than 3 million cars by 2030."

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"The study found huge savings if 10 percent more net-zero houses are built each year for the next decade, then by 2020 all new homes were built that way. Environment Texas' director thinks it's a realistic goal."