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Stad van de Zon (City of the Sun) is a housing and building project in Heerhugowaard, The Netherlands, based on a concept developed by Bert Smolders, then urban planner with Kuiper Compagnons, and further realized by the architect and urban planner Ashok Bhalotra.
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The goal was and is to build homes that are directed towards the sun, and that a big part of the energy used by those homes is provided by solar power. This way, the project is to become the first carbon neutral[1][2] as well as the largest photovoltaic neighbourhood worldwide.[3][4]
As of 2007, about 1,500 residential homes have been completed.
References
edit- ^ (in Dutch) Energiezonnige gemeente Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, DePers.nl, 16 September 2009
- ^ Dutch City of the Sun, euranet.eu, 29 September 2009
- ^ (in Dutch) Koning Willem-Alexander opent 'De stad van de Zon', Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, 24 September 2009
- ^ Best practices, Cleantech Holland
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