Kanata builder testing market with net zero energy homes
August 10, 2015
ADAM KVETON, OTTAWA COMMUNITY NEWS.
Cross-Canada project aims to pave way to new government standard.
Five home builders across four provinces are ready to test homebuyers’ appetites for a new standard of energy efficient homes: ones that can produce as much energy as they consume.
One of the builders – Minto Communities – has begun building the first of five homes it has planned for its Arcadia Community in Kanata off Huntmar Drive north of Hwy. 417.
The homes are among 25 planned in Ontario, Alberta, Quebec and Nova Scotia to reach the federal government’s new Net Zero Energy Housing certification which, through testing, evaluates whether a home can produce as much energy as it consumes over the course of a year. Construction is part of a government-funded project announced in 2013.