Tag: Solar
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Reports Unveil Roadmap to Clean Energy Future for Washington State
With hydropower accounting for 69 percent of generating capacity, Washington State has one of the nation’s cleanest energy profiles. Still, 14 percent of the state’s grid is powered by coal and that portion accounts for 81 percent of the state’s climate pollution from electricity. The majority of the electricity comes from a coal plant in Colsrip,…
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Solar: The Solution to America’s Energy and Economic Crisis
Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), praised the rise of the solar energy sector while attempting to galvanize its stakeholders at the three-day Solar Power International 2013 event in Chicago. Resch welcomed visitors to the gathering, which began Monday, with the following address: “Since 2006, when the solar Investment Tax Credit…
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InSite House Will Combine Social, Environmental and Economic Sustainability
Team Middlebury is one of the twenty teams chosen to compete in this year’s US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition and their entry is the design and building of a socially and environmentally sustainable house called the InSite house. The team is made up of more than 100 Middlebury College undergraduate students from…
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AIR House Connects Inhabitants with Nature in Simple, Sustainable Style
The first team from the Czech Republic to enter the Solar Decathlon is Team CTU, made up of 26 students who set their sights on designing and building a prototype for future housing while raising awareness of solar energy, energy efficiency, and Czech architecture and engineering. Their submission in the Solar Decathlon 2013, for which…
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Net Zero Delta T90 House Maintains Comfortable Interior Temperatures During Subzero Vermont Winters
Recognizing a housing crisis in New England, where many renters and homeowners pay over a third of their income on housing, much of which includes homes that were built before 1950 and are extremely inefficient, the ∆T90 team at Norwich University in Vermont designed a high performance, affordable solution that has been accepted in the…