Sentences with phrase «solar design»

Proper solar orientation of a building on a site has been one of the core practices of passive solar design for decades.

Clearly, getting an accurate consumption profile for your customer is critical to finding the best solar design for their needs, and to accurately representing their potential savings from solar.

Here at Aurora, we're always looking for the latest technology to make remote solar design faster, easier, and more accurate.

Solar design centers are the brick and mortar solution to solar's high customer acquisition costs.

Many home designs took passive solar design principles into account, even if they didn't name them as such.

Knowing a customer's energy load profile is essential to creating a good solar design.

With today's technology, creating solar designs and generating solar proposals is faster and easier than ever before.

The data and information gathered will be applied to student passive solar design models.

The time has finally come when an effective solar design has been created to power a solid, everyday vehicle.

Computer science and mathematics are providing a number of other technological advances that are making remote solar design more automatic, while offering improvements in accuracy.

This took some time, as the resources were limited and really only covered passive solar design theory.

As you can imagine, this has big implications for developing an appropriate solar design.

Many solar design considerations also help with summer cooling.

Without knowing the value of the energy you are saving, it makes it hard to compare two different solar designs that cost the same, but have different production profiles.

But I always keep an eye on the nuts and bolts of solar design.

Another area where mathematical approaches provide advances in remote solar design is in the process of creating a 3D site model.

I don't think passive solar design principle should be written off completely.

For passive solar design, a minimum of 4 to 6 hours per day in winter is considered practical, depending on the climate.

For each site, we will go through the entire solar design process — from determining an optimal component layout based on the roof structure and shading losses all the way to a cost analysis with various financial options.

The International Brotherhood of Electrical workers used Aurora solar design software to design a commercial solar array for their union hall, streamlining project development significantly.

Passive solar design of new houses and buildings can greatly reduce energy costs since, through smart design, much of the house becomes, in effect, a solar collector.

In the case of the LIDAR data used in solar design, the scanner is typically outfitted on a plane to map the topography of the land below, but LIDAR has other applications as well.

using Aurora solar design software.

It uses a passive solar design with low windows on the south side and skylights and high windows on the north to passively cool the home with breezes.

You may also be making suboptimal solar design decisions or recommending the wrong financing option to your client.

We've explored solar designs for the White House and Buckingham Palace, so we thought it was time we set our sights on another executive residence, this time in Canada.

Yet another computational technique being integrated into solar design software draws from geometric modeling approaches to enable the creation of complex shapes through the merging of simpler shapes.

Anytime I speak to people about Passive House there seems to be some confusion with the Passive Solar Design ideas from the late 70s.

Imagery is one of the main areas in which technological advances have transformed solar design.

In today's article, we explore the how the system was designed in Aurora and how the use of a robust solar design software streamlined and enhanced project development.

Estimated monthly electricity production of the proposed solar design for Mount Vernon, generated by Aurora's performance simulation engine.

For each site, we will go through the entire solar design process - from determining an optimal component layout based on the roof structure and shading losses all the way to a cost analysis with various financial options.

Salespeople should be prepared to show multiple solar design options and quickly adjust solar proposals to their needs.

Drawing from the fields of optimization and computational mathematics, Aurora developed an algorithm that iterates through thousands of potential solar designs to find the most cost - effective design that achieves a particular energy offset or bill savings target.

While researching The Trombe Wall: Low Tech Solar Design Makes A Comeback I stumbled over the work of DesignBuildBLUFF, the principal mission of which is to «design and build safe, sustainable off - grid homes for needy families living on the Navajo Nation Indian Reservation in the four corners region located just outside of Bluff, UT.»

The verdict is still out on its effectiveness, but kudos to the team for stepping out of the Modern design box and working to make solar design palatable to a mass market of mainstream consumers.

A space solar design by Japanese agency JAXA uses opposing mirror arrays to reflect sunlight onto two solar panels.

Passive solar design requires the knowledge to design and orientate buildings so that they can be heated by the sun.

I talked to Jose Alvarez, the Director of the Sunworks Solar Design Center, a brick - and - mortar solution to solar installation barriers.

Incorporating solar design into a new structure is fairly simple and low cost.

The company's Remote Solar Design tool provides an installation cost estimate with no home visit required.

On the way to California wine country, be sure to stop at the Solar Living Institute where you can explore the latest in fascinating technology in solar and wind power to environmentally friendly building materials, passive and active solar design, organic gardening and permaculture.

To model this intricate building, we turned to one of Aurora's resident solar design experts — Research Engineer Andrew Gong.

This year I chose to tackle the challenging issue of passive solar design versus Passive House.