Zero Energy Building (ZEB)

A Zero Energy Building (ZEB) is a building with greatly reduced energy needs through efficiency gains or the amount of renewable energy created on the site. A ZEB produces as much energy such as renewable solar or geothermal energies that is approximately equal to the total amount of energy used by the building on an annual basis, meaning the zero net energy consumption. A ZEB reduces the greenhouse gas emissions and conserve energy. In the EU and USA, buildings account for 40% of total energy use.

Related Definitions in the Project: The Energy Definitions; Renewable Energy 

Example Article of the Energy-Efficient Building:

Futuristic Glass Technology Paves Way for Energy-Efficient Buildings (Source: Oil price on 1 February 2024): What happens when you expose tellurite glass to femtosecond laser light? That’s the question that Gözden Torun at the Galatea Lab, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in a collaboration with Tokyo Tech scientists, aimed to answer in her thesis work when she made the discovery. Its a discovery that may one day turn windows into single material light-harvesting and sensing devices and perhaps a new semiconductor material. The physicists propose a novel way to create photoconductive circuits, where the circuit is directly patterned onto a glass surface with femtosecond laser light. The new technology may one day be useful for harvesting energy, while remaining transparent to light and using a single material. The scientists were interested in how the atoms in the tellurite glass would reorganize when exposed to fast pulses of high energy femtosecond laser light. They stumbled upon the formation of nanoscale tellurium and tellurium oxide crystals, both semiconducting materials etched into the glass, precisely where the glass had been exposed. ...