Weekly Clean Energy Roundup:September 24, 2003

*News and Events DOE Names 20 Teams to Compete in the 2005 Solar Decathlon DOE Awards $4.2 Million for Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell Projects New Large L.A. Fuel Cell System the Latest of Many World’s Largest Utility Battery System Installed in Alaska Twelve Companies Buy 97 Megawatts of Green Power First Well Drilled for Australian Hot Dry Rock Project *Energy Connections Transmission Upgrades to Ease Power Bottlenecks ———————————————————————- NEWS AND EVENTS ———————————————————————- DOE Names 20 Teams to Compete in the 2005 Solar DecathlonDOE announced on September 17th its selection of 20 university teams to compete in the 2005 Solar Decathlon. The Solar Decathlon premiered in 2002 and pitted 14 teams of students against each other in a competition to design and build a solar-powered house. As in that first competition, the 2005 Solar Decathlon will again return to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., where the teams will have to build their homes and then operate them for about a week using only solar energy. While nine of the teams that competed in 2002 will return in 2005, the 11 new teams will help to boost participation by more than 40 percent compared to 2002. The 2005 Solar Decathlon will include […]

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