Tag Archives: competition
What Google Can Tell You About Your Customer’s Sentiment
Do you run your business in vacuum? Probably not. Unless of course, you don’t like generating revenue. As founder of a solar lead generation company, my customers are solar installation companies. And one of their biggest un-addressed issue: how do THEIR customers feel about them. Prior to the days of internet where much of people’s [...]
Winner of Net-Zero Design Contest: The Silver Streak Project
50 architects competed in this year’s Architecture at Zero competition, which showcases the best of net zero-energy building design. This year the challenge was to submit blueprints for zero-energy student housing or for an administrative office building for the University of California at Merced. The land currently has parking lots, a trailer, and grazing land. Applicants were also asked to create a diagrammatic district energy plan for [...]
How Student Competitions Increase Innovation
It s a thrill to experience the energy, creativity, and enthusiasm of young people from around the world as they apply their curiosity and talents to address significant global challenges. There are budding scientists and innovators all around us and I have been fortunate to recently visit with some of the best. On an October [...]
Rhône Alpes of France Wins Solar Decathlon Europe 2012
Rhône Alpes of France won the second iteration of Solar Decathlon Europe in Madrid, Spain, this past Saturday. The team’s Canopea house won the international competition with a total score of 908.72 points. The home took top honors eking out Spanish team’s Andalucía Team’s Patio 2.12 house, which received 897.30 points in the contest. Solar [...]
The Green Cup Challenge
The Green Cup Challenge® (GCC), launched 2007, is an annual month long inter-school energy challenge that takes place each January/February to call attention to peak winter energy use. Originally designed to help schools measure and reduce electricity use and greenhouse gas emissions, GCC provides hands-on learning opportunities for students and school staff, including facilities managers, [...]
EIA: Renewable Energy Growth Increasing Under President Obama
The latest data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) show that non-hydro renewable sources of electricity have grown significantly since Barack Obama took office. In the last year of the Bush administration, non-hydro renewable sources accounted for 3.06% of the nation’s electrical generation. This was equivalent to an average monthly output of 10,508 gigawatthours. [...]
Amonix Closes Nevada Factory
After the recent news of Amonix closing its North Las Vegas, NV factory and the other bad news from Amonix, I am returning to my practice of labeling concentrating photovoltaics (CPV) “The zero-billion-dollar market.” I had shelved that phrase, and in a rare instance of optimism, had tried to be patient and understanding with PV’s [...]
The SunShot Prize Competition
The U.S. Department of Energy is focusing on making solar power an affordable and viable option for homeowners by implementing new funding programs and competition in the industry. The latest development is called SunShot Prize, or “America’s Most Affordable Rooftop Solar Competition”, which will award a combined $10 million to the top three teams who can install 5,000 [...]
Princeton Students Create ‘Power in a Box’ Invention
In 2010, eighteen months ago, a competition named ‘P3: People, Prosperity and Plant Student Design Competition’ started with 165 competitors and ended on 21 and 22 April, 2012 at the Washington, D.C. Mall. Along with fourteen other college teams, a team of Princeton University students were awarded top honors for the invention of ‘Power in [...]