Urbi: Zero Energy Houses

[Oscar Castillo]

Urbi, the second largest housing builder in Mexico, presented its plans to start the construction of Zero Energy-like Houses.
This type of house would be able to produce up to 50% of the energy that it consumes (ideally it should be able to produce almost 100% of the energy, but it would be no bussiness to the electric companies that support this project).
To avoid costly maintenance of storage devices in each house, the electricity that is produced, would be send to the electric central, and the owner will get a discount in the next bill.
All the plans have been already aproved, and Urbi expects to start building these houses by 2012 at a rate of 60 000 houses by year


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_energy_building