More than 8,000 homes in Seville have photovoltaic solar panels that can harness solar energy for hot water or is processed into electricity. The panels installed are around 22,600 square meters, which means energy savings of 15,323 megawatt hours per year, equivalent to 2473 tons of oil, according to data provided by the director of [...]
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“Homes of thermal comfort” is called the project that runs the National Engineering University (UNI) in rural areas of the Peruvian Andes, in the case of Puno Pisacoma district, with the aim that the inhabitants of these parts to improve their quality of life before the intense cold in winter hits.
The project will be implemented [...]
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The use of solar energy is becoming more popular as people realize the great benefits that this energy is clean. Some people are using solar energy in their yards and sidewalks, while others use solar thermal energy in their homes and businesses. Others take the decision to build their homes around the use of solar [...]
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The Government of Mexico City bets to the construction of social and viable houses in the City, and in order to do so, they analyze if it is possible to grant a series of incentives for the industrialists who will built it.
These stimuli go from administrative and fiscal incentives to allowing the construction of more [...]
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The National Polytechnical Institute (IPN) and the Institute of the National Found for the House of the Working force (INFONAVIT) signed an agreement of academic collaboration, with the purpose of creating energetically efficient houses.
The agreement establishes the cooperation mechanisms so that investigators, educational and polytechnical students, participate in the creation of innovating houses that integrate [...]
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With the help of solar energy electricity can be generated to power a house. With people being more aware of their benefits and their effectiveness, demand for solar energy systems is growing much and there are a variety of systems available in the market.
Solar panels are usually connected to batteries that store energy as direct [...]
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Heating, lighting or washing without consuming not even 1 watt: teams of U.S. and foreign students face innovative solar homes erected on the central esplanade of Washington.
The fourth edition of “Solar Decathlon 2009“, organized by the U.S. Energy Department, faces up to 18 October with twenty houses prototype capable of running entirely on a solar [...]
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It is not usual to find renewable energy news coming from Mexico. One of the biggest Mexican construction companies, Casas Geo, is introducing a new scheme to build green houses and cities. The project includes more gardens and electrically efficient houses. (See above).
“Today he have solar panels to heat water but our plans include to [...]
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With the hot weather that we get, to stay fresh is always a priority for the residents of temperate zones.
The owner of a house in the beach town of Panama, Charles Lyle installed solar panels at his home just a few months ago, and thought that savings will be greater than the costs.
Like many owners, [...]
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The United States is in recession, the prices of houses on the floor, but the houses that have installed solar panels are another story. Potential buyers take into account the energy savings in the long run to pay a little more for the houses.
Electricity costs are not ringing down soon. Systems that use solar panels [...]
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