{"id":13558,"date":"2013-06-12T08:23:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T08:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=d75c384f90a48dfe49a025b91d1bc359"},"modified":"2013-06-12T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T08:23:13","slug":"taking-a-20-year-old-florida-house-to-net-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/taking-a-20-year-old-florida-house-to-net-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a 20-Year-Old Florida House to Net Zero"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    Starting with an energy-efficient home and using available incentives made it easier        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/taking-20-year-old-florida-house-net-zero\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/Florida%20zero-energy%20home%20-%20cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo of Steve Larson-s net-zero home in Florida\" width=\"144\" height=\"119\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/taking-20-year-old-florida-house-net-zero\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/net-zero-energy-home-electricity-consumption-and-production.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"May 2012 electricity bill for net zero energy home\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.homeandenergyservices.com\/\">Steve Larson<\/a>, a builder and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyvanguard.com\/hers\/what-is-a-home-energy-rating\/\">home energy rater<\/a> in Florida, sent me an e-mail with his energy bills for February through July of 2012. When you subtract out the monthly service charges, he paid only $5.35 for electricity during those six months. That&#8217;s right &mdash; less than a dollar a month for electricty&#8230; and then $9.88 a month for the service charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3445,3446,1439,10552,9940,905,10553,4125],"class_list":["post-13558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-hers-index","tag-hers-rating","tag-net-zero","tag-nze","tag-photovoltaic-module","tag-solar-energy","tag-zeh","tag-zero-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}