Back in February, we reported on the winners of the Solar Park South international design competition in Calabria, Italy which played with the theme of a 'Solar Highway', re-using sections of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway soon to be decommissioned by the Italian Highways Authority. The winning team, comprising French…

The winning projects for the Solar Park South international design competition in Calabria, Italy have recently been announced. The brief called for a 'Solar Highway' by re-using Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway sections between Scilla and Bagnara to be decommissioned by the Italian Highways Authority. The international jury selected three winning…

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu recently announced the 20 collegiate teams selected to compete in the next U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon which will be held on the National Mall in Washington, DC in the Fall 2011 (

The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that ‘Team Germany’ from the Technische Universität Darmstadt has won the 2009 Solar Decathlon with their project surPLUShome. This is the second time in a row that a team from TU Darmstadt wins this international contest…

California College of the Arts (CCA) and Santa Clara University (SCU), competing as Team California, took the lead in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon this morning by winning the architecture contest with a…