Energy-Positive Buildings -- Use Surplus Energy to Charge Your Electric Car (IMAGE)

Swansea University

Energy-Positive Buildings -- Use Surplus Energy to Charge Your Electric Car

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The UK's first energy-positive classroom, designed with research expertise from Swansea University, generated more than one and a half times the energy it consumed, according to data from its first year of operation. One of the uses for the surplus energy was charging up electric vehicles.

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