Building A Net Zero Ready Home - Hermes Creative Awards

Focus on Energy

Madison, WI
Focus on Energy’s work delivers real, measurable energy and financial savings for Wisconsin’s residents and businesses. Installing cost-effective energy efficiency and renewable energy projects creates jobs, upgrades local infrastructure and improves the environment. Bottom line, the energy and dollars saved through Focus on Energy strengthens Wisconsin’s economy. By eliminating energy waste we reduce the need to purchase coal and natural gas from other states. This keeps dollars in Wisconsin and lessens the need to build additional power plants. All told, since 2011, Focus on Energy has delivered more than $1 billion worth of net economic benefits to Wisconsin. Focus on Energy is funded by Wisconsin’s investor-owned energy utilities, as required under Wis. Stat. § 196.374(2)(a), and participating municipal and electric cooperative utilities.

Building A Net Zero Ready Home

Category: Electronic Media / Social Media / Interactive Media | Video | 174c. Video Series
About Project

A young couple in the Madison-area decided to build a Net Zero Ready Home and allowed us to document the entire build. The series shows how Focus on Energy Building Performance Advisors as well as our Trade Ally Builders worked with Jackie and Kevin to ensure once they installed solar panels, their home would be "Net Zero;# the house only uses enough energy from the grid to provide electricity for the home.
The two-man crew used four iPhones for the video shoots, producing 16 videos from May 2022-December 2022.
In November, the Trade Ally Builder, Tim O'Brien Homes, received a call from a couple in another town nearby who had seen the video series. They wanted the same exact home built for them!

Credits

Producer/Videographer/Editor - Casey Davidson
Producer/Videographer/Editor - Ron Giordan
Creator- Jaqueline Friedel