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Georgia
Constructed in 2002 and 2003, The Good
Word is the Georgia Institute of Technology's first solar-powered vehicle.
It carries a driver and one passenger seated in a back-to-back configuration.
Georgia MSR
Partnership Takes a Regional Approach to Using Solar
Credit: Jim Hackler In
1978, Dennis Creech founded the Georgia Solar Coalition in Atlanta, Georgia. As
its name suggested, the organization’s focus at that time was on solar energy,
but as time passed, it expanded its scope to include a more broad focus based on
building science and energy efficiency principles. Its name changed to the
Southface Energy Institute to reflect the more broad energy awareness and focus,
and today it is a robust organization, focusing on regional and national energy
issues. Southface is also the official MSR partnership for the State of Georgia.
"We do a great deal of teaching, research and commercial contracts," says Jeff
Ross-Bain, Southface Senior Research Engineer and MSR partnership coordinator.
"We are quite busy these days," said Ross-Bain. "I am involved in several LEED
projects, we provide high-performance building consulting services and conduct
trainings on energy code and building science and other interesting work, and
MSR is an important piece of my day because I am able to include it in almost
all that I do," he said. Despite his busy schedule, I caught Jeff between
conference calls recently, and he was eager to talk about the partnership’s
progress. MSR:
Jeff, Southface started out as a strictly solar organization, then morphed into
a more broad-based energy organization, involved more in high-performance
building strategy and LEED projects. With all of this going on, what prompted
Southface to become involved with MSR? JR-B:
The goals of the MSR Initiative are entirely consistent with the work we already
do here at Southface. Southface addresses many of the very relevant and
collateral issues necessary for solar to become effective and widely accepted.
Much of what we do here at Southface is general outreach to stakeholders, the
industry and the general publicsuch as teaching, research, energy audits, energy
code analysis, design review for green building, LEED work-all of these efforts,
while primarily efficiency-based, have a close relationship to solar I
want to mention our annual tradeshow and conference called
Greenprints. It is here
in Atlanta and this year will take place on March 18 and 19. We bring together a
host of national speakers for two days of terrific workshops, manufacturer
displays and networking opportunities. I encourage everyone to check out the
events at the
Greenprints web site.
Other Helpful Georgia links
georgia.gov - Online access to Georgia government.
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