Here Comes the Sun! California doubles solar net metering cap
Self-Tinting Windows Change Tint When they Get Hot
Team Germany's "SOLAR EVERYWHERE" Strategy Wins 2009 Solar Decathalon
Power Optimizers to Increase Output of Solar Panels
University of Michigan Solar Car Team Wins American Solar Challenge
LA Replacing Its Street Lights & Bus Stop Lighting with LEDs
Home Energy Rating and the HERS Index
Bacteria taught to spin microscopic gears could make for better solar panels
GE Develops Nucleus Home Energy Management System
Phat Energy Solar Carports: Pretty Hot and Tempting!
Solar Panels to be Produced Below 70 Cents a Watt
Solar PV and Solar Thermal: World's First LEED Net Zero Home
SANYO Celebrates Grand Opening of New Monterrey Solar Module Assembly Manufacturing Plant
U.S. Solar Organizations SEIA and SEPA Form New Entity to Produce Trade Events That Drive
SuRF DIY Smart Grid Open Source Toolkit Available April 2010
20 Solar Homes Take Shape for the Solar Decathlon
The assembly of 20 solar homes on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is rapidly approaching completion, as the 2009 Solar Decathlon prepares to open, free to the public, on October 9th. Trucks rolled onto the National Mall just after midnight on the morning of October 1, and since then, the teams have been steadily working to assemble their solar homes.
The Solar Decathlon is an international event in which DOE challenges university teams to design and build homes that run entirely on solar energy. The teams ship their partially constructed homes to the National Mall, assemble them, and then compete in ten contests.
Each home will be monitored for its performance in five areas relating to performance and livability: comfort (maintaining comfortable temperature and humidity in the home), hot water (producing a sufficient quantity at a high enough temperature), appliances (such as keeping refrigerated items at the right temperature), home entertainment (running a television, computer, lights, and other devices), and net metering. For the net metering competition, homes must use zero net energy over the course of a week, and teams receive a bonus for producing more energy than their home consumes. Other contests rate the teams for their communications with the public and for the architecture, engineering, and market viability of their homes. The overall winner will be announced on October 16.
Over 800 student competitors from the United States, Canada, Spain and Germany will compete in this year's Solar Decathlon.
[Read More via Dept of Energy]
Recommended for Further Reading:
- Here Comes the Sun! California doubles solar net metering cap
- Self-Tinting Windows Change Tint When they Get Hot
- Team Germany's "SOLAR EVERYWHERE" Strategy Wins 2009 Solar Decathalon
- Power Optimizers to Increase Output of Solar Panels
- University of Michigan Solar Car Team Wins American Solar Challenge
- LA Replacing Its Street Lights & Bus Stop Lighting with LEDs
- Home Energy Rating and the HERS Index
- Bacteria taught to spin microscopic gears could make for better solar panels
- GE Develops Nucleus Home Energy Management System
- Phat Energy Solar Carports: Pretty Hot and Tempting!
- Solar Panels to be Produced Below 70 Cents a Watt
- Solar PV and Solar Thermal: World's First LEED Net Zero Home
- SANYO Celebrates Grand Opening of New Monterrey Solar Module Assembly Manufacturing Plant
- U.S. Solar Organizations SEIA and SEPA Form New Entity to Produce Trade Events That Drive
- SuRF DIY Smart Grid Open Source Toolkit Available April 2010
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