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Solar Home at Georgia Tech

Georgia Department of Transportation Georgia

Proj Electricity

When I heard about Solar Home at Georgia Tech, also referred to as the GT Solar Home or just Solar Home, I thought it was one of the most interesting green initiatives on campus. It is just what it sounds. It’s a house powered by solar energy! Although construction won’t begin until the spring semester of 2017, the concept designs are beautiful. What’s even more impressive is that the project is completely student designed. The team is comprised of 43 students, both undergraduates and grad students, including several engineering students and computer science students, 11 architecture students, and four business students. They are assisted by Principle Investigator Ravi Subramanian, along with Charles Rudolph, Cassandra Telenko, and Matthew Realff.

ID #37 Location Georgia Industry Electricity Type Contract Role Solar Home at Georgia Tech Career Level Small/Mid-Size Business Experience Presence Opportunity Zone

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Communication
We encourage you to reach out to us. Check out our website and follow our social media outlets. More broadly, there are lots of sustainability initiatives on campus. Serve-Learn-Sustain has many great events to get students involved, and there are lots of courses in sustainability that you can take. It’s been really great having a course attached to our project
Organizational
Solar Decathlon competition is held every two years. It’s really 10 competitions. The next Solar Decathlon will be held in Denver, Colorado in 2017. It’s an energy contest sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy for collegiate teams, and it’s a way to show, through the prototype houses built by college students, that solar energy is for the general public. It’s an incentive for people to buy solar houses. Solar energy is getting much more efficient, and Georgia is one of the best states in the U.S. for solar energy collection. Solar is clean energy, and net zero solar energy is close to complete maturity. The industry has grown so much in the last 10 to 15 years.
Project Related
We will be using an eight kilowatt photovoltaic array, so solar panels, on top of the house. We intend to save energy using a very efficient HVAC system and we are designing a grey water filtration system as well. We expect to have battery power as well in the house. The sun is not always out and there are clouds, so the way we deal with these challenges is we’ll have battery backup in the house and grid hookup, which is a Solar Decathlon requirement. Solar Decathlon houses used to be completely autonomous, but that posed a lot of problems. We’re trying to use our IoT (Internet of Things) system to help the user conserve water and be more efficient but to also inform the user of their energy usage and how to conserve more. We can use the computerized system to help the homeowner to do what is most efficient by controlling when the house should pull energy from the solar panels, when to pull from the battery, when to pull from the grid, and when to sell back to the grid to make the most money
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Georgia Department of Transportation

Boosting Georgia’s competitiveness via leadership in transportation

Est. In 1935 50+ People 4 Proj
Transportation Under the leadership of Commissioner Russell McMurry, P.E., Georgia Department of Transportation plans, designs, constructs, maintains and improves the state's roads and bridges, and interstate highways; and provides planning and financial support for other modes of transportation including rail, transit, general aviation, and bicycle and pedestrian programs. The department is also involved in waterways, including the Savannah and Brunswick ports and intracoastal waterway.
Low Impact Bridge Program (LIBP) This program was introduced in 2014 and has replaced and reopened 14 bridges with 3 under construction and 33 more programmed for replacement within the next two to three years.
Major Mobility Investment Program

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Georgia Department of Transportation Georgia Institute of Technology, North Ave NW, Atlanta, GA 30332 (404) 894-2000 https://sustain.gatech.edu/blog/solar-home-georgia-tech [email protected]
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