Renewable Energy Eruope

The Spanish team from the UPM ( Universidad Politecnica de Madrid ), presented last week the design of the solar-powered house that will take part in Solar Decathlon 2009. The UPM is coordinating the Spanish multi-disciplinary team of young engineers and architects in this fourth edition of the contest. The prototype, named the B&W House , representing the balance between black and white, was presented on January 15, at the Cervantes Institute in New York City by Josep María Adell , Professor of Architecture at the Polytechnical University of Madrid (UPM) and project manager of Team SPAIN in the Solar Decathlon. B&W House - ... Read Full Story

So, the coolest little village this side of the Atlantic closed its doors last Friday. The Solar Decathlon ended with a German winner, the team from Technische Universitat Darmstadt . They beat out 20 teams of architecture, engineering and business students from the United States, Canada, Germany, Puerto Rico and Spain to win the third annual event. The teams competed in ten different contests to design, build, and operate attractive and energy-efficient solar-powered homes. Oak louvers on the Technishe Universitat Darmstadt’s solar powered home provide shading and privacy for visitors to the Solar Decathlon on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Saturday, Oct. 13. ... Read Full Story

Casa Solar (above and down below) from the UPM at Washington ( pictures courtesy of Inhabitat ) Press release from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Public Affairs, Washington, D.C. Today U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Alexander Karsner and Spain’s Undersecretary of Housing Fernando Magro Fernández signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate in the development of a Solar Decathlon Europe competition in 2010. The Solar Decathlon is a competition which challenges university-led teams to build the most attractive and efficient solar-powered homes, held on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Under the MOU ... Read Full Story

'Solar Homes' in Vauban (Freiburg), Germany Even before the current global economic crisis unfolded there were voices of opposition against a large scale switchover to renewable energy sources as it could cost billions of dollars straining the economies across the world. And then came the long impending energy crisis which made the use of renewable energy imperative. While the governments around the world unleashed massively ambitious national energy plans in an effort to check the degrading effect of high fuel prices, somewhere, it seems, this new energy revolution has hit a wall. A wall which has made the common people rethink about their capacity ... Read Full Story

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