Energy consumption in residential buildings is one of the major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the U.S. Most of the efforts to minimize these emissions contemplate on construction of new high performance green buildings rather than retrofitting the existing residential building stock, which has the greatest emission reduction potential. In this paper, rapidly increasing GHG emissi...

In recent years, integrating solar energy systems and hydrogen-based storage into residential buildings has shown promise in reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions achieving clean supply. However, there is a lack of evaluation on the application potential buildings. Therefore, comprehensive method that considers building differences was implemented 20 Canadian cities to evaluate net-zero statu...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) was one 16 collegiate teams from around the world that participated in U.S. Department Energy Solar Decathlon 2017 competition. An interdisciplinary team students across university engaged a 2-year long process to design and build house is powered completely by solar power. equipped run all typical appliances an average modern similar levels on conv...