This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic newsletter.
October 14, 2015
In the past week, collegiate teams involving hundreds of students from around the world assembled at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine, California. Their mission? To showcase the highly energy-efficient, solar-powered houses they created to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015. The October 8 opening ceremony, headlined by U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, kicked off the biennial event that challenges collegiate teams to design, build, and operate houses powered by the sun.
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