Pathway 3.

Energy Efficiency, Conservation, and Fuel Switching in Buildings and Industry → New Buildings

3.2.7 Zero Net Energy Buildings

LPDD Recommendation: “State legislatures or governors should establish state zero-energy building (ZEB) goals, such as California’s goals under California’s Building Energy Efficiency Standards.”

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Santa Monica Energy Code

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Requires all new buildings use 10%-15% less energy than allowed by the 2016 California Energy Code, and achieve an energy design rating of zero.

Sebastopol’s Solar Energy Requirements

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Requires new commercial or residential buildings, and specific alterations, to incorporate solar energy of either 2 watts per square foot, or offsetting 75% of the annual energy use of the building.

San Francisco’s Green Building Code

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Requires new residential buildings to be installed with solar energy systems that meet a minimum requirement for per foot energy production.

Lancaster CA’s building code

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

Requires that new buildings be outfitted with a solar energy system.

Vancouver Zero Emissions Buildings plan

Jurisdiction: Foreign

Aiming to achieve zero emissions on all new construction by 2030.

New York City’s Climate Mobilization Act (2019)

Jurisdiction: Local Governments

A set of laws which require certain existing building roofs must be covered in green roofs or PV, and setting annual carbon emissions limits for buildings larger than 25,000 sf.

An interdisciplinary public-private collaborative working to create a groundbreaking high-performance building district in downtown Seattle. The district’s goals include carbon neutrality in all new construction by 2030.

Massachusetts’ Pathways to Zero Net Energy Program

Jurisdiction: State Agencies

A $3.5 million Department of Energy Resources (DOER) initiative to spur the development of Zero Net Energy Buildings in Massachusetts.

Oregon’s Executive Order 17-20

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

Calls for carbon neutral operations in new state buildings permitted after 2022, compliance with USDOE’s Zero Energy Ready standard on new residential construction by 2023, and code revisions to require that all new buildings are suitable for solar.

Washington State’s Zero Energy Code Roadmap

Jurisdiction: States and State Governments

Guides the process of revising the State Energy Code through its revision cycles leading up to 2031, identifying how code provisions can evolve to meet the legislature’s “broader goal of building zero fossil‐fuel greenhouse gas emission homes."