Today is the open house for the Net Zero energy home starting at 10 in the morning.
The address of the home is 135 Edgar Avenue.
At the open house, you can get a good look at the energy efficient home from the inside and out.
Steven Sobering, community energy manager for Dauphin, says the Net Zero House has a lot of exciting features.
“This home is designed so that over its lifetime, there are zero energy bills. So basically, what little energy the home uses will be generated by the solar PV that’s on the roof and that’s a huge feature. The home is very well designed, so every aspect of the build was scrutinized because we needed to achieve a high-performance build.
The ACC played a large role in the project with carpentry students building the house at the Dauphin Co-op Building Centre’s ready-to-move site.
Once moved to its final address, local contractors completed the work.
The cost to build the house is about 40 or 50 thousand dollars more than a normal house.
The house will go on the market tomorrow with a price of 350 thousand dollars.
Sobering says if you took the energy savings from the home and applied it to the mortgage you would save 38 thousand dollars in interest and pay off the home 4 years sooner.
The Dauphin Kids of Mud program will have a barbeque all day at the open house until 6 pm.
Tune in just after the noon ag show at 12:40 for the full interview Isaac Wihak did with Steven Sobering.
