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Reston now is the uptotheminute source for breaking news, business news, weather, schools, politics, events and community happenings in reston, virginia. Strategic research centre on zero energy buildings was in 2009 established at aalborg university. Michael webber energy in water july 10, 2017 20 c michael e. Renewable energy data book department of energy energy. By prepared for the buildings technologies program, energy efficiency and renewable energy. Energy efficiency trends in residential and commercial. The buildings energy data book is a compendium of data and does not provide original data. Commercial buildings energy consumption survey cbecs. A zeroenergy building ze, also known as a zero net energy zne building, netzero energy building nzeb, net zero building is a building with zero net energy consumption, meaning the. Buildings energy data book datasets openei doe open data. From a financial standpoint, however, building efficiency is a winner, as well, comparing. Buildings energy data book the building energy data book 2011 is a compendium of data from a variety of data sets and includes statistics on residential and commercial building energy consumption.
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