Was your home a victim of Hurricane Sandy? We are sorry for your your loss. Let us help you turn your loss into a gain. Please call us for special discount rates on our zero-energy home plans. Zero-Energy Plans, LLC is the leading provider of proven Energy Efficient home designs to mainstream builders and do-it-yourselfers worldwide. Each of the High Performance Home Designs available through this site will use less than half the energy of a home built to the 2006 IECC, and have roof plans allowing sufficient south facing space for at least 3 KW of photovoltaic solar panels. Most importantly, they are very affordable, with styling just like any other home. Every home built to these plans is qualified under the IRS Tax Code Section 1332, Credit for Construction of New Energy Efficient Homes of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. This important Tax Credit has been renewed through 2011. We are now offering PROVEN home plans that are so efficient they will not only power themselves, they will also power your car. Imagine living a completely carbon-free life! Break out of the oil-dominated society, and live your life the way you want, in full control of your own energy destiny! If OPEC had bombs, they would probably be dropping them on Zero-Energy Plans.com! Most people will spend twice as much on energy for their house and car over the life of a thirty-year mortgage as they spend on the initial purchase of their house! One of our Positive NRG Homes™ can provide all the energy you ever need for the car and the house. In effect, you could have your HOUSE for FREE! ORDER YOUR ENERGY-EFFICIENT HOME PLANS TODAY! OUR HOME PLAN SETS INCLUDE COMPLETE GREEN BUILDING GUIDELINES! Download our FREE Heating Cost Calculator (Excel File) This extraordinary calculator allows you to enter your actual fuel prices, and compare side-by-side the cost of using different fuels, at different efficiency ratings, to heat your home. We are starting to see other calculators that do what ours do, some even better than ours, but we were the first to offer the honest side-by-side comparison of different fuel types and equipment types. Zero-Energy Home Plans is now offering High Performance Energy Remodel plans for existing homes. For now we will only be able to offer this service on or near Whidbey Island, Washington, but we hope to have people trained across the country to perform this service within the next (2012) year. We can turn typical homes built between 1950 and 1985 into models of energy efficiency, using less than half the energy of today's new code-built homes. Please use the Contact Us button above, or click here for more information. What is a Positive NRG™ Home? A Positive NRG™ Home will produce more energy over the course of a year than it uses. It is our goal that our newer designs will not only power themselves, but will also provide enough surplus energy to power your electric car. Three of our Positive NRG™ Home plans have already been built, and are meeting or exceeding expectations! Order one of our Positive NRG™ Home plans today, and help us make this the "normal" was to build a new home! | If you are looking for CVH Inc., DBA Clifton View Homes, you are in the right place. Zero-Energy Plans LLC is our design company. Clifton View Homes, our parent company, has been a SIPS Builder on beautiful Whidbey Island, Washington State for more than 19 years. Specializing in Structural Insulated Panels, Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs) and other energy-efficient technologies, CVH Inc. has been satifying the most demanding custom and luxury home building customers for more than 22 years. Please enjoy our web-site! ZEP wins National Green Building Award for third time in four years! See article on Press Page. ZEP wins EVHA again... Twice! See article on Press Page Hot off the presses! Completed in January 2011, and third-party verified, this house will not only power itself, but also power your car! The RC-3 plan, with only 5.6KW of PV on the roof, WILL POWER A full sized electric car MORE THAN 19,500 MILES PER YEAR!!! SEE OUR PRESS PAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION! We now have a full line-up of home plans up on this site that will power your car as well as your house! We call them our Positive NRG Homes™. Watch for this trademark as you scroll through our home plans. These homes will perform in almost any climate zone, they are so well designed and so powerful! Together we will change the way America builds homes! You can lead the way in your neighborhood! Our first Room with a Paycheck™ is now up on site, click on "Square Footage" drop down to "under 1000 sf", and you will see our 120 sf fully contained home! We have more of these micro-homes on the way, including 192 sf, and 382 sf. Asian style homes, from 500 sf to 1,000 sf are now available from Zero-Energy Plans soon, watch for new releases! Four years in a row, a Zero-EnergyPlan.com home has been honored with an Energy Value Housing Award, sponsored by the US Department of Energy and the NAHB Research Center. To qualify for these awards, the homes must not only be super-energy-efficient, but also must be affordable. Energy Efficient Homes begin with a tight, well insulated Building Envelope, and our plans are proven winners in this regard. Your local conditions will influence minor changes to our plans, and will help determine exactly which energy systems you will use in your home. We will guide you through those selections at no additional cost. Our plans have already been proven in a number of different climates and geographic areas. Arctic Home Plan versions are available for several of our most popular plans. True Zero Energy Homes have never before been as easy to build as with a Zero-EnergyPlans.com home plan. What is the Payback Period for a Zero-Energy Home? LESS THAN THREE YEARS! Hit the "Contact Us" button above to request more information! Click on PRESS PAGE link above for information and free download for designing Closed Crawl Spaces! If you got this far on our site, congratulations! You are a true believer! Are you interested in owning a house that will also power your electric car? We have twelve Positive NRG Homes™ already available (Positive NRG 1415, Positive NRG 2100, Positive NRG 1100 Cabin, Positive NRG 931-2, Positive NRG Triplex, Positive NRG 563-1, Koream Kabin 500-1, P-1, RC-1, RC-3, Garage 2, MB-1 and MB-2), with more under development. We will soon have a separate site devoted only to homes that will make you truly fossil fuel free, with a near net zero carbon footprint. Thank you for your interest! |