Solar Decathlon 2005-PV System Strategies and Results

Warner, C.; Waßmer, M.

doi:10.1109/wcpec.2006.279626

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“…Solar Decathlon is an international competition open to universities and collegiate institutions around the world, giving them the opportunity to compete for a target: to design and build a solar house that is energy independent [7][8][9][10]. It takes place in odd years in the USA.…”

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Energy Performance and Thermal Comfort of a High Efficiency House: RhOME for denCity, Winner of Solar Decathlon Europe 2014

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The increase of people living in large cities and the expansion of new urban areas are keys to defining new sustainable models. It is estimated that about 70% of the EU population lives in urban areas, and it is expected to reach 80% by 2030. Consequently, it is important to find a new concept of buildings that can reduce the total energy consumption. The Solar Decathlon is an international university competition, born in 2002, created by the U.S. State Energy Department (DOE). Students are challenged to design and operate a full-scale, innovative and sustainable house able to exploit solar radiation as its sole energy source. The objective of the competition is to promote research and education in sustainable architecture and solar energy fields. This paper presents an overview on the

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Energy Performance and Thermal Comfort of a High Efficiency House: RhOME for denCity, Winner of Solar Decathlon Europe 2014

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“…Solar Decathlon (SD) is an international competition among universities, created by the U.S. Department of Energy, which promotes research in the development of energy efficient houses [7][8][9]. The objective of the participating teams is to design and build houses that consume as few natural resources as possible and produce minimum waste products during their life cycle.…”

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Experiences and methodology in a multidisciplinary energy and architecture competition: Solar Decathlon Europe 2012

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Gutiérrez

Montero

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Energy and Buildings

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Solar Decathlon Europe is an international competition among universities which promotes interdisciplinary learning in engineering and architecture. Students from different disciplines participate in teams guided by several professors during a 29 month preparation period plus five weeks of on-site contest. The educational project involves designing, building and testing a solar energy house connected to the electrical grid with the strategy of maximizing self-consumption, supported by bioclimatic technologies and maintaining a low environmental footprint. It culminates in a on-site contest in which teams must assembly the house themselves, test it with ordinary real life tasks and finally disassembly it. The event has also a divulgative aim, trying to make students and visitors get interested in discovering the problems presented by real engineering and architecture applications. In addition, SDE covers R&D aspects in different fields such as energy efficiency, solar energy and bioclimatic architecture. This article presents the methodology followed during the SDE 2012 edition, in which more than 850 students participated. The obtained results show that the educational competition was a success according to the technical and professional ambitions of the students, most of them considering that their knowledge had increased in areas related to technical and multidisciplinary aspects.

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“…Within this scenario Solar Decathlon (SD) [7][8][9] was created as an international competition among universities by the U.S. Department of Energy. It promotes research and development of efficient solar houses, and tends to maximize efforts in new situations that allow university teams to implement strategies which maximize electricity autonomy and self-consumption [10,11].…”

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Electrical energy balance contest in Solar Decathlon Europe 2012

Matallanas

Solórzano

Castillo-Cagigal

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Energy and Buildings

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Solar Decathlon Europe (SDE) is an international multidisciplinary competition in which 20 university teams build and operate energy-efficient solar-powered houses. The aim of SDE is not only scientific but also educational and divulgative, making visitors to understand the problems presented by real engineering applications and architecture. From a research perspective, the energy data gathered during the competition constitutes a very promising information for the analysis and understanding of the photovoltaic systems, grid structures, energy balances and energy efficiency of the set of houses. This article focuses on the electrical energy components of SDE competition, the energy performance of the houses and the strategies and behaviors followed by the teams. The rules evaluate the houses' electrical energy self-sufficiency by looking at the electricity autonomy in terms of aggregated electrical energy balance; the temporary generation-consumption profile pattern correlation; and the use of electricity per measurable area. Although the houses are evaluated under the same climatological and consumption conditions, production results are very different due to the specific engineering solutions (different electrical topologies, presence or absence of batteries, diverse photovoltaic module solutions, etc.).

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Solar Decathlon 2005-PV System Strategies and Results

Cited by 5 publications

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Energy Performance and Thermal Comfort of a High Efficiency House: RhOME for denCity, Winner of Solar Decathlon Europe 2014

Energy Performance and Thermal Comfort of a High Efficiency House: RhOME for denCity, Winner of Solar Decathlon Europe 2014

Experiences and methodology in a multidisciplinary energy and architecture competition: Solar Decathlon Europe 2012

Electrical energy balance contest in Solar Decathlon Europe 2012

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