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10 kJ) per year of electrical power, however with age, its current generation is approximately 200,000 kilowatt-hours (720,000,000 kJ) per year, or 6% of the structure's needs. Additionally, the solar panels that were installed used a rough glass that reduced efficiency, but prevented glare
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Construction began in early 1980 and the building itself was completed in May 1982 at a cost of $ 23,000,000. The interior of the building consists of six floors of educational space and a seventh maintenance floor, altogether totaling 226,000 square feet (21,000 m). While at the time the center
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The facility hosts numerous administrative offices, student facilities, and conference spaces, but is best known for its contribution to solar power development. Among the occupants of the building are the
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In its original plans it would have been the largest photovoltaic installation in the world and as completed was one of the largest ever constructed. At its peak it produced 360,000 kilowatt-hours (1.3
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energy company. The center has been recognized as being ahead of its time in the promotion of renewable energy sources and for continuing to operate as designed, decades after its construction.
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at a cost of approximately $ 10,000,000. Solarex installed the 35,710 square feet (3,318 m) of solar panels on the roof of the center facing south. Solarex was later purchased by the
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was considered futuristic, a "dark spaceship" on the historic campus, it has since become incorporated into the campus with its Red Square courtyard serving as a student gathering area.
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to produce electrical power. While the Congressional funding for the solar panels came as a result of heightened awareness of energy issues following the
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applied to the Department of Energy for a grant to fund the construction of an intercultural center that would showcase the potential use
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While it had been designed with the installation of solar panels in mind, they were not installed until late 1984 by the
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Podbielski, V.; D. Shaff (April 1994). "The Photovoltaic Higher Education National Exemplar Facility (PHENEF)".
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is a seven-story mixed use building on the main campus of
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View of the eastern red brick face of the Intercultural Center facing the "Red Square" quadrangle.
Washington, D.C.
Coordinates
38°54′32″N 77°04′24″W / 38.90881°N 77.07338°W / 38.90881; -77.07338
Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Edward B. Bunn
U.S. Department of Energy
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
Georgetown College

Georgetown University
building integration
photovoltaic panels
1973 oil embargo

Reagan National Airport
Solarex Corporation
Amoco
Enron
"1982 WBC Craftsmanship Awards Winners"
the original


Georgetown University
Bibcode
1994STIN...9521409P
OSTI

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