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Solar Decathlon Village Powered by Microgrid & Sponsor Support
Since the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2009, a temporary, ground-laid electrical grid (or “microgrid”) has connected Solar Decathlon houses with one another and the local utility, writes...
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Solar Decathlon 2015: Solar Vie – Solar Life in Versailles
A brand new city sprang up—almost overnight—about 15 miles southwest of Paris. You won’t find a cookie-cutter template for design here, as each house is unique in function, form, and style, reports...
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Solar Decathlon Asks: What Makes A House A Home?
1Sun4All A house is just a building until people live in it. Then it becomes a home. Although U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon houses are not lived in during competition, Solar Decathlon...
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Technology Spotlight: Ventilation in Solar Decathlon Houses
1Sun4All. The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon communications team presents a series of technology spotlights in the article below that introduce common technologies used in the Solar...
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Solar Decathlon Leads To Patent-Pending Technology & Career
1Sun4All. Matthew O’Kelly participated twice in the Solar Decathlon—first as the HVAC engineer for The Ohio State University (OSU) 2009 team and then as the project engineer for the OSU 2011 team,...
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Nevada Las Vegas Solar Decathlon 2013 House Has New Home (VIDEO)
1Sun4All. On August 28, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid visited DesertSol—the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) house that won second place overall in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar...
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Alumnus Builds Houses, Career on Solar Decathlon Experience
1Sun4All. Ryan Abendroth is the founder, principle, and practitioner of Passive Energy Designs in St. Louis, Missouri—a company that consults on high-performing, low-energy buildings. To date, he has...
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Solar Decathlon Skills Win Alum A Career With Team Sponsor
1Sun4All. As individuals, we are responsible for 100% of the energy we use in our daily lives. Did it ever occur to you that, as individuals collectively responsible for half of the world’s energy, you...
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Home Sensors & Automated Smart Systems At Solar Decathlon
The students from West Virginia University designed and built PEAK, a very cool net-zero energy log cabin for the Solar Decathlon 2013, you may remember my story: Have You Ever Wanted To Live In A...
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USABC Awards $298,736 Contract To Seeo Inc. For Battery Module Testing
The DOE will provide 50% of the funding for a series of tests to be carried out over the next nine months on Seeo DryLyte battery modules USABC Awards $298,736 Contract To Seeo Inc. For Battery Module...
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Largest-Ever Study Quantifies Value Of Rooftop Solar
The largest-ever study of its kind, conducted by a multi-institutional research team led by scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in partnership...
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Solar Decathlon 2015 Kicks Off With Irvine Workshop
Originally published on 1Sun4All. The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015 will present the sustainable housing achievements of 17 collegiate teams. The student teams are given two years to...
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A Smart Grid Infrastructure Demands Increased Engineering Smarts
Managing a smart grid infrastructure requires training the next generation of power engineers. Developing power engineers who understand the smart grid demands of a growing population represents a...
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Solar Decathlon 2015: Texas/Germany Team’s NexusHaus (Video)
The US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015 team Texas/Germany — the University of Texas at Austin and Technische Universitaet Muenchen in Germany — has designed an affordable, net-zero energy,...
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Sacramento State: Solar Decathlon 2015 Reflect Home (Video)
Originally published on 1Sun4All. One if my favorite features of California State University, Sacramento‘s net-zero energy home for the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015, is the spacious...
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Florida+Singapore+New Mexico’s Solar Decathlon Home Basks in the Sun (Video)
Originally published on 1Sun4All. The US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015 team from University of Florida, National University of Singapore, and Santa Fe College has set out to design and...
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Solar Decathlon: NY City Tech Tackles Major Storm Housing (Video)
Originally published on 1Sun4All. The team from New York City College of Technology (City Tech) started with a concept to provide a uniquely New York solution to emergency housing after catastrophic...
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ShelteR3, Crowder+Drury’s Solar Decathlon Home Responds to Tornadoes (VIDEO)
Originally published on 1Sun4All. I am very thankful to have never lived through the experience of having my home, family members, friends, pets, car, business and sense of security ripped away by a...
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Distributed Wind Turbines Face Challenges In Domestic Market
Originally published on EIA. The domestic market for distributed wind turbines has weakened since the record capacity additions in 2012. Last year’s installations of mid-size and small wind turbines...
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Energy Efficiency Saves US Manufacturers $2.4 Billion
Energy efficiency saved manufacturers $2.4 billion in five years and could top $10 billion in annual savings by 2020 through DOE's Better Plants effort Energy Efficiency Saves US Manufacturers $2.4...
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Department of Energy Digs Up More Green Jobs with $20 Million for New...
The U.S. Department of Energy dedicated $338 million in Recovery Act funds for new geothermal projects last year, and now the agency has added another $20 million to the pot.
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“Cascading” Geothermal Energy Could Revive Small Towns with New Green Jobs
Part of a new U.S. Department of Energy grant for innovative geothermal technology is going to a project that could help small towns and mid-sized cities generate low cost local power, cut their carbon...
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Yahoo is Crowing Over New Energy Efficient Chicken Coop…Er, Data Center, That Is
Tech giant Yahoo's new data center in upstate New York may resemble a giant chicken coop, but inside those almost whimsical looking walls there is some serious energy conservation going on. Instead of...
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Offshore Wind Power Offers Thousands of New Green Jobs…Or Not
Last week the U.S. Department of Energy released a new report detailing the potential opportunities for offshore wind power development in the U.S. The figures are mighty impressive. Along with...
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What is The MATRIX? Hint: It’s a New Battery that Will Stop Trucks from Idling
If I was Morpheus I could just say “Well, we can’t tell you what it is, you’d have to see it for yourself,” and this post would be over, but that would be lame, so here goes. The MATRIX is a new...
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Solar & Wind Energy News of the Last Week (or So)
Along with cleantech politics news and other cleantech news from the past week or so, here’s some news on wind and solar energy that we haven’t covered. Ted Turner’s Solar Plant Begins Commercial...
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Giant $1.4 Billion Solar Project Will Almost Double Total U.S. Capacity from...
The U.S. Department of Energy has launched a $1.4 billion loan guarantee project to build 733 megawatts worth of solar panels, which is almost the equivalent of all the photovoltaic installations in...
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Solar Decathlon Winners
Solar Decathlon 2011, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) solar architecture contest, has wrapped up. While there is an overall winner, there are also winning teams for different topics (e.g....
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E. Coli Bacteria: What Doesn’t Kill Us, Makes Us Biofuel
That notorious killer bacteria e. coli is making renewable biofuel hand over fist for researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy. Scientists based in DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute have tweaked a...
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Video Stories Demonstrate Energy Efficiency’s Economic Benefits
Climate Solutions, a Northwest-based nonprofit focused on creating a clean energy economy, has created several videos of companies’, organizations’, and communities’ inspiring stories of energy...
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Stanford Engineers’ Nanoshell Whispering Galleries Improve Thin Solar Panels
By Andrew Myers Visitors to Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Building may have experienced a curious acoustic feature that allows a person to whisper softly at one side of the cavernous, half-domed...
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New Battery Research: Double-Walled Nanotubes Improve Durability and Lifetime
For more than a decade, scientists have tried to improve lithium-based batteries by replacing the graphite in one terminal with silicon, which can store 10 times more charge. But after just a few...
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Sun Rises On First Day Of Building At Solar Decathlon 2013
Originally published on 1Sun4All. After two years of preparing for the Solar Decathlon, teams started reassembling their houses on the Solar Decathlon 2013 competition site on Friday, writes the...
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Solar Decathlon 2013 Will Continue As Planned, Despite Shutdown
Originally published on 1Sun4All. Despite the government shutdown, the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013 competition will continue as planned, wrote the Solar Decathlon team on Tuesday,...
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After Solar Decathlon 2013, Where Do The Houses Go?
Originally published on 1Sun4All. On October 14, after two years of hard work and 10 grueling contests, the Solar Decathlon teams will begin disassembling and packing up their demonstration houses,...
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1st Solar Decathlon Latin America To Be In Colombia In 2015
Originally published on 1Sun4All. The US Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Decathlon announced yesterday that representatives of the DOE and the South American country of Colombia have signed a...
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Solar Decathlon 2015 Dates Set and New Team Lineup (Video)
Originally published on 1Sun4All. The dates for the 2015 Solar Decathlon international competition that will be held at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine, California have been set for October...
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Smith Electric Vehicles Stops Production Of Its EVs
Originally published on Gas2. Smith Electric Vehicles of Kansas City has suspended production of its electric trucks and vans. While executives remain optimistic about Smith’s chances, even they had to...
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US Could Double Hydropower Production
Originally published on Climate Central. By Bobby Magill The Grand Canyon was once targeted as a major dam site by the federal government, a project eventually scuttled after widespread protest. Nobody...
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Solar Decathlon 2015 Adds Electric Vehicles & Charging
Originally published on 1Sun4All. The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015 will highlight sustainable transportation with the addition of “Commuting” as one of its 10 contests, writes Carol...
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Salut Versailles! Solar Decathlon Europe Opens to Visitors
On June 28, 20 competition houses from 17 countries and three continents open to visitors in La Cité du Soleil—Solar Decathlon Europe’s solar city in Versailles, France, reports Carol Laurie for Solar...
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Solar Decathlon Europe 2014: Versailles France Almost Open
When I arrived onsite last week, Solar Decathlon Europe 2014 student teams were in the middle of the final phase of heavy construction of their self-designed and self-built project houses, writes...
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California Leads In Net-Zero Homes As Costs Drop
Half a dozen California cities are hosting enough net-zero homes to place the state in first place nationally among other states like Arizona where the net-zero trend is catching on rapidly, both among...
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New Fraunhofer Solar Cell Stringer Uses Adhesives For 2% Boost
An R&D team at Fraunhofer ISE has unveiled a new solar cell stringing machine that can boost cell performance 2% by using electrically conductive adhesives to fix solar cells to a foil substrate in...
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West Virginia Rethinks Quashing Solar Net Metering
West Virginia has called for a time-out in its four-year effort to rewrite solar net metering rules to the detriment of both solar hosts and solar installers, thanks to a massive campaign by Solar...
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