# What if buildings created energy instead of consuming it?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED Countdown London Session 2022
- Speaker: Ksenia Petrichenko
- Year: 2022
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Earth and environment, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/ksenia_petrichenko_what_if_buildings_created_energy_instead_of_consuming_it)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Buildings are bad news for the climate -- but they don't have to be. While our structures are currently responsible for a third of global energy consumption and emissions, a future where they create more energy than they consume is possible. Energy policy analyst Ksenia Petrichenko has a three-tiered strategy for thinking differently about buildings, transforming them from passive users to active players in the energy system and bringing us closer to our climate targets.

## Lectures

1. [What if buildings created energy instead of consuming it?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/ksenia_petrichenko_what_if_buildings_created_energy_instead_of_consuming_it/f6052964430a), 14 min (TED's player)