
ASES and the Young Professionals in Renewable Energy Conference offers you the opportunity to explore sustainable energy solutions through the eyes of your peers in engineering, planning, architecture, design, and education.

Wednesday’s Plenary session kicked off with outstanding speeches from John Byrne, Eric Martinot, and Kevin Knobloch.

Wednesday morning, April 17th, SOLAR 2013 kicked off with a multitude of sessions ranging across many different topics. The first passive architecture forum was entitled “DOE Building Integrated Solar Technologies Roadmap.” William Goetzler and Matt Guernsey were the featured speakers representing Navigant Consulting, which was hired by the Department of Energy to develop a Roadmap. [...]

The emerging architecture and passive building technology sessions ended with a bang at the forum- The Mythic Modern: Mythology, Ecology, and Technology…The Spirit of Place. We were given the great pleasure to hear Travis L. Price III, a fellow of AIA, speak about his inspiration and work. Travis Price has been an architect, author, educator, [...]

There are many things we can learn from the Germany, as the country has become a world leader in renewable energy in just a few short years. The German government has made it a point to decentralize power generation, so over half the country’s clean power is owned by individuals or farmers, providing political support [...]

We are continuously seeing school campuses across the nation installing renewables to help power their schools, while also educating the students. This year at SOLAR 2013 we had a forum of speakers who are working directly towards the goal of schools going renewable. Gabriella Martin of the J.L. Clean Energy Community Foundation in Chicago, gave [...]