Engineering systems in the Re_home: A net-zero, solar-powered house for the U.S. Department of Energy´s 2011 Solar Decathlon

Author

Cady, Stanton T. ; Mestas, Daniel ; Cirone, Chris

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

24-25 Feb. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper focuses on the engineering systems designed for a solar-powered, net-zero energy house created for the 2011 Solar Decathlon. The house was built by a group of students and professors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who were among twenty collegiate teams chosen to compete in the biennial Solar Decathlon competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Detailed information is given about the design choices made while an evaluation of the photovoltaic system installed on the house is presented.

Keywords

photovoltaic power systems; solar power; 2011 solar decathlon; Re_home; U.S. Department of Energy; University of Illinois; Urbana-Champaign; biennial solar decathlon competition; engineering systems; net-zero energy house; photovoltaic system; solar-powered house; Arrays; Control systems; Educational institutions; Inverters; Monitoring; Photovoltaic systems; Sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Champaign, IL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1681-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1682-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PECI.2012.6184583

Filename

6184583