Solar Decathlon Europe

Solar Decathlon Europe
Location(s)Wuppertal, Germany
Next eventSeptember 2021
Organised byEnergy Endeavour Foundation[1] & University of Wuppertal[2]
Websitehttps://www.solardecathlon.eu

The Solar Decathlon Europe (SDE) is an international student-based Competition that challenges collegiate Teams to design, build and operate highly efficient and innovative buildings powered by renewable energy.[3] The winner of the Competition is the Team able to score the most points in 10 contests.

On Oct. 18, 2007, the Spanish and U.S. governments signed a memorandum of understanding in which the Spanish Ministry of Housing committed to organise and host a Solar Decathlon in Europe.[4] The agreement was signed in Washington, D.C., next to the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's Casa Solar during the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2007 Competition. The American signatory was Alexander A. Karsner, assistant secretary of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Department of the U.S. Department of Energy, with Fernando Magro Fernández, undersecretary of housing of the Ministry of Housing representing the Spanish government.[5]

  1. ^ "Energy Endeavour Foundation". Retrieved 5 December 2023.
  2. ^ Solar Decathlon Europe 2021 [dead link‍]
  3. ^ "the sde story". SDE. 29 November 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  4. ^ "U.S. Department of Energy page on SD Europe". Archived from the original on 23 July 2015.
  5. ^ Select "SD Europe" for more information Archived 2010-07-14 at the Wayback Machine