Green Homes in Britian Required by the Climate Change Act
Britain is requiring home builders to design super-efficient houses that use only clean power and produce no net carbon. All new homes must be zero-carbon by 2016.
The construction industry will have to approach development in a fundamentally new way, planning from the earliest stages the use of solar panels, communitywide heat-sharing systems and other energy saving items. These changes by the home-building industry will help Britian meet the goal of the cutting carbon dioxide emmissions eighty percent by 2050 as required by the Climate Change Act.
Home energy use, now accounts for 27 percent of Britain’s carbon output and commercial buildings account for 18 percent. Another law my be passed soon requiring new commercial buildings to be zero-carbon by 2019. The laws apply only to England. Regional governments in Wales and Scotland are passing similar rules.
A zero-carbon home could cost £20,000, or $32,000, more to build than a traditional one.
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