Building a Zero Energy home means no electric bill | Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Sarasota | WTSP.com 10 Connects

Building a Zero Energy home means no electric bill Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Sarasota WTSP.com 10 Connects: "Palm Harbor, Florida - The hotter it gets outside, the more it costs to stay cool inside, but there's a new movement sweeping the country and it's spreading to the Tampa Bay area. The concept is to build Zero Energy homes. It's a way to stop paying electric bills altogether.
Alfonso Castaneira is the Senior Executive Producer of Zero Energy America. He says, '48 percent of all pollution, of all greenhouse gases in the world, comes from homes and only 12 percent come from our cars.'
His company is trying to educate the public about ways to change that. He's spent seven years researching how to do it.
Friday was the groundbreaking ceremony for the first official Zero Energy home in the Bay area, which is located at 2712 Deer Track Way in Palm Harbor. Zero Energy America partnered with luxury home builder Marc Rutenberg. When the home is finished, it will look similar to the builder's other homes in Hawks Landing in Palm Harbor."