SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Santa Clara University and SolarTech will celebrate an exciting collaboration as California Energy Commission’s Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) grant partners on Friday, Feb. 20.
Leaders from the three organizations will join Santa Clara Mayor Patricia Mahan to shed light on their vision for clean energy and sustainability.
This is an especially important year for SCU. Santa Clara students are working on the next house that they hope will claim the top spot at the 2009 Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Competition in Washington, D.C.
Students will present this year’s plans at Friday’s Solar Celebration and give tours of the 2007 Solar Decathlon house that won third place at the international event. At that contest, Santa Clara University beat out Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, and two-time decathlon winner University of Colorado, Boulder. It was the first year SCU entered the biennial competition that’s sponsored by the Department of Energy, in which 20 student teams compete to design, build, and operate the most attractive, effective, and energy-efficient house, powered exclusively by the sun.
Solar Celebration takes place Friday, Feb. 20 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Santa Clara University’s Bannan Engineering Laboratories in the Multipurpose Room.
Friday, February 20, 2009
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