Author: LEED Blogger
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Sustainable and Affordable Family Home
Tatiana Bilbao, an architect from Mexico has come up with an interesting design for a low cost house, which she revealed at the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial. The home she presented can be built for just $8000 and is therefore very suitable as a social housing alternative, and Bilbao is hopeful it will one day…
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SunEdison completes 2-MW solar plant in Maryland
SunEdison, Inc. completed construction on a 2-MW solar power plant for the Town of Elkton, Md. The mayor and commissioners approved a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with SunEdison to buy the solar power generated by the system and estimate that it will save the town more than $2 million on electricityRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Massachusetts the Most Energy Efficient State
GHG reduction efforts, building code improvements cited as major drivers of efficiency gains. More…
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Hawaii residents asked to choose ‘self-supply’ or ‘grid-supply’ in next move to smart grid
Starting today, renewable-energy project developers seeking interconnection to the HECO companies’ utility grids will face two new PUC-driven tariff requirements, termed “self-supply” and “grid supply”, that will replace the NEM program and pave the way for so-called smart grid functionality. Out goes the NEM program, which led to Hawaii’s massiveRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Transformer Wall Saves Space
A lot of people are starting to prefer living in small apartments in cities, rather than large houses out in the suburbs. But with increased demand, the rents have also gone up, so clever space saving solutions are very much sought after. One such is the transformer wall designed by Brad Swartz, an architect from…