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Publication Type: Energy Efficiency; Self Generation
Category: Market Study
Author: TRC Energy Services; Design Avenues LLC; Debra Little; CIC; Research Into Action, Inc.
Sector: Residential; New Construction
Implementer: SCE; SDGE; PG&E; SoCalGas
Title:
Residential ZNE Market Characterization
Abstract: This study found that ZNE-type homes – and ZNE homes in particular – are in the innovator stage of market adoption. All told, over 50 builders have constructed ZNE-type homes in over 130 California cities. The TRC Team identified approximately sixteen ZNE homes and over one thousand ZNE-ready and near ZNE homes based on this study’s interpretation of this term. Despite this vibrant activity among the emerging ZNE-type market, the study also found various indicators that the market is not currently poised to achieve a ZNE homes 2020 aspirational goal, including a lack of consumer demand, a lack of qualified building professionals, early adopters’ misperceptions about the ZNE concept, questions regarding the cost effectiveness of ZNE-type homes, and various barriers (real and perceived) to adoption of ZNE-type homes. If meaningful progress toward the 2020 ZNE goal is to be achieved in the next five years, it would require a ZNE Market Transformation Initiative that transcends the current regulatory framework for PA program delivery. In addition, the ZNE-type home community will need to work collaboratively across various stakeholder groups—both within and beyond California—to encourage the market to meet ZNE residential new construction goals.
Author: Pacific Gas and Electric (PGE); San Diego Gas and Electric (SDGE); Southern California Edison (SCE); Southern California Gas Company (SCG)
Sector: Residential; New Construction
Implementer: SCE; SDGE; PG&E; SoCalGas
Title:
RTR for Residential ZNE Market Characterization Study
Abstract: Utility responses to recommendations in Residential ZNE Market Characterization
(2015, TRC Energy Services, Calmac ID# PGE0351.01). Responses to recommendations made to the CPUC will be made at a later time.
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