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7 Stunning Passive Houses That Will Cost Just Pennies to Heat This Winter

7 Stunning Passive Houses That Will Cost Just Pennies to Heat This Winter Energy Collective For the 30,000 or so owners of passive houses these compromises are a thing of the past. They’ve got the comfort, the low emissions and barely a heating bill to speak of.

It is getting cold here in England, and I’m preparing for the yearly tradeoffs between comfort, carbon emissions and heating bills that are part of living in a house with reasonable but not great insulation.

For the 30,000 or so owners of passive houses these compromises are a thing of the past.  They’ve got the comfort, the low emissions and barely a heating bill to speak of.  I’ve looked at the technical reasons about why apassivhaus has a negligible heating bill in the past.  But I’ve never mentioned how pretty they can be.

Here are 7 stunners from around the world!

1: The Hudson Passive Project, Hudson, NY, United States

2: La Maison Bambou, Val d’Oise, France

3: FabLab House, Madrid, Spain

4: Crossways, Kent, United Kingdom

5: Passivhaus (the original), Darmstadt, Germany

6: Villa Nyberg, Borlänge, Sweden

7: House on Limekiln Line, Huron County, ON, Canada

7 Stunning Passive Houses That Will Cost Just Pennies to Heat This Winter – Energy Collective

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