Engineering systems in the gable home: A passive, net-zero, solar-powered house for the U. S. Department of Energy´s 2009 Solar Decathlon

Author

Dhople, Sairaj V. ; Ehlmann, Jonathan L. ; Murray, Charles J. ; Cady, Stanton T. ; Chapman, Patrick L.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2010

fDate

12-13 Feb. 2010

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

62

Abstract

The Solar Decathlon is a biannual competition sponsored by the U. S. Department of Energy, where twenty university teams are selected to design, build and operate a sustainable, energy-efficient, solar-powered house. This paper describes the design and performance of the electrical systems deployed in the house constructed by the University of Illinois: a 9 kW solar photovoltaic system, custom power monitoring system, and a power-line communication based home control and automation system.

Keywords

building integrated photovoltaics; solar energy conversion; systems engineering; US Department of Energy; automation system; custom power monitoring system; electrical systems; engineering systems; gable home; home control; power 9 kW; power-line communication; solar decathlon; solar photovoltaic system; solar-powered house; Automatic control; Communication system control; Computerized monitoring; Control systems; Design automation; Energy efficiency; Home automation; Photovoltaic systems; Power engineering and energy; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI), 2010

Conference_Location

Urbana-Champaign, IL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5902-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PECI.2010.5437154

Filename

5437154