Lab staff develop criteria for $20 million energy challenge
Berkeley Lab’s Iain Walker and his colleagues in environmental energy research helped the Siebel Foundation develop the criteria for its Energy Free Home Challenge, which comes with a $20 million global incentive prize. The Challenge is a competition to create a new generation of systems and technologies for practical homes that realize a net-zero, non-renewable energy footprint without increasing the cost of ownership. It is “open to everyone everywhere — university teams to handymen and hobbyists.”
Walker, a scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division, discusses the work he did with other colleagues to help the Siebel Foundation develop its Energy Free Home Challenge. Over the last two years, Walker worked with numerous colleagues at Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, the University of Illinois and elsewhere to develop the criteria for the challenge.
