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Article: United States: Green Home Builder ZETA Readies Energy Management System to Achieve Net Zero.
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- Article date:
- November 2, 2009
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Byline: sanjayV03
ZETA Communities, a San Francisco-based green prefab builder, has been quietly developing an energy management system that it says will be ready to be installed in all the startup s projects starting next year. The system, called zTherm, automatically opens vents, draws heat from thermal mass, and takes other low-cost measures to cool or heat a house without cranking up the air conditioner or furnace. While ZETA, founded in 2007 and backed with $5 million in venture capital, has so far built just one structure and is in the process of completing another, CEO Naomi Porat tells us the firm has a pipeline of projects totaling more than 1,000 units ...