The Prospects for the Application of a House with a Positive Energy Balance

Currently, energy is connected with environmental issues and energy conservation, as far as traditional methods of electricity production have a significant impact on the environment in terms of both global population growth and the increasing demand for electricity. Nowadays, there is an acute issue of developing alternative energy via the potential of inexhaustible natural resources. The concept of a house with a positive energy balance is one of the possible directions of industry’s development. It allows a household to manage with the electricity actually produced, spending it efficiently with a use of various energy-saving technologies. The values of carbon footprint indicators can be negative, thereby reducing the impact on the ecology. This concept can act as a positive trend to reduce the Moscow region's dependence on harmful electricity production in the conditions of steady energy shortage and difficult environmental situation. The obtained results indicate the feasibility of self-sufficiency of households with electricity received from inexhaustible sources. The examples of such projects will appear more and more often in the near future, which means it is worth of intense development. Therefore, it will improve the technologies in terms of accessibility.