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Turning My Home Net Zero
  + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailTurning My Home Net ZeroRyan Shanahan & Megan Milligan live in a house that's over 100 years old in Portland, Oregon. Find out how they turned their old home into an eco-friendly net zero house with a yearly electric bill that is less than $300 on "Unlocked," Sundays at 4pm ET on CNBC.
Persons: Zero Ryan Shanahan, Megan Milligan Organizations: CNBC Locations: Portland , Oregon
When Ryan Shanahan, 41, decided to buy a house in Portland, Oregon, he knew from the start that he wanted his future home to be "net zero." To be net zero is to cut greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as possible, with any remaining emissions reabsorbed from the atmosphere, by oceans and forests, for instance, according to the United Nations. "My mantra is that the future is efficient, electric, and renewable," Shanahan tells CNBC Make It. To buy the house, Shanahan took advantage of a $15,000 forgivable loan from Oregon's Down Payment Assistance program. Shanahan purchased the house because it had design features needed to help reach his goal of making the house net zero.
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailTurning My Home Zero Energy For $48K In Portland, ORWhen Ryan Shanahan bought his home in Portland, OR in 2014, he dreamed of turning it into a net-zero house--one that would produce at least as much energy as it consumed in the course of a year. But retrofitting an over one-hundred-year-old structure into a eco-friendly building seemed like too much to hope for. But by 2020, he and his wife, Megan Milligan, had fully converted their home to net-zero, producing so much solar energy that their yearly electricity bill dropped from $1,100 to $285.
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