Texas State Fair

The Net-Zero Energy Home

The centerpiece of this year’s Texas State Fair Green exhibit is the Net-Zero Energy Home, a 1,600-square-foot house built by Scarlett Custom Homes of Frisco that produces its own electricity and sells excess electricity back to a power company. It does this using a solar tree, geothermal heating and air conditioning, a solar-powered water heater, along with insulation, LED lights, triple-pane windows and other strategies to reduce energy consumption.