Involving occupants in net-zero-energy solar housing retrofits: An Australian sub-tropical case study

The cost of these actions was well under the average retrofit budget in Australia and resulted in the house achieving near net zero energy (NZE) balance for all household services on an annual basis and NZE balance for nine months of the year. Analysis of the motivations and actions of the home owner point to implications for building assessment tools, eco-feedback technologies, policy, and theories of household decision making.