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Energy Efficiency Opportunities for Tobacco Curing Barns

Tobacco curing is an energy intensive process that has made some progress in automation, but overall has not significantly changed over the past decades. In this report the authors evaluated the most practical and also typical retrofit scenarios, such as envelope improvements and the installation of an automated control systems. In terms of their anticipated impact on energy savings the different opportunities ranged from around 6% for added control strategies to around 12% for typical standard envelope improvements.

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Apr
20
2019

Grand Prize Winners in the 2019 Solar Decathlon Design Competition

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Teams competing in the Solar Decathlon Design Challenge develop creative solutions for real-world issues in the building industry. From originally more than 80 entries, 47 teams were selected as finalists in 6 divisions to attend the Solar Decathlon Design Challenge Weekend at NREL in Golden, Colorado. In the end, 45 teams presented their designs to a panel of industry expert jurors, compared their projects to those of other teams, learned from presentations by thought leaders and collegiate peers, and engaged with a variety of organizations about energy careers. 

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