A group of University of Cincinnati students is building a new house on campus, but this house isn't your ordinary home. It's a solar house.
Twenty-Five Students have spent nearly two years working on the design, engineering, and business plan for the solar home.
The solar powered home will include state of the art photovoltaic panels that heats water inside the home.
The project is part of the "Reform 2007 Solar Decathlon."
The winner will be named in October in our nation's capital. There is no grand prize, just the honor of helping the environment.
If you are interested in viewing the solar house, it is being built on campus in front of Braunstein Hall.
UC engineering graduate student, Christopher Davis, tells 9News ,"In October, we have to ship it to Washington, D.C. to participate in the competition and put it down on the National Mall. Our strategy was to build it on four, eight foot trailers that we'll then bolt together. The whole house is sort of modular and we can transport it anywhere."
All the appliances inside the home will also be powered by the sun.
It will cost an estimated $230,000 to build. The students received donations from corporate supporters to fund the project.
