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![Alex Burkart, right, receiving award from presenter.](https://sustainability.ncsu.edu/multisite/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/alex-burkart-receiving-award.jpg)
![A group of installers lay a rectangular solar panel into a larger array.](https://sustainability.ncsu.edu/multisite/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img6481-edited.jpg)
Solar and (much) more: NC Clean Energy Technology Center marks 35 years
The North Carolina Solar Center was established in 1987 as an outgrowth of the Solar House, an educational resource and laboratory on the NC State University campus designed to demonstrate how solar energy could power an individual home.![Multiple rows of classroom desks.](https://sustainability.ncsu.edu/multisite/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/empty-classroom-website-header-360x216.png)
Summer Energy Savings On Campus
NC State's Summer Energy Savings Initiative leverages lull in classroom usage for energy conservation, reducing costs and minimizing straing for regional electricity grids.![Team members Jason Oliva Milla, Eric Daniel, Lawrence Navarro, Allison Keever and Julia David celebrate after presenting their capstone project, Site Evaluation and Design for Renewable Energy and Electric Vehicle Charging.](https://sustainability.ncsu.edu/multisite/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/COE-Capstone-EV-Team-360x216.png)
Powering Up Solutions
NC State College of Engineering students develop a clean energy concept for a campus site as part of senior design.![](https://sustainability.ncsu.edu/multisite/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/yarbrough-360x216.jpg)
Progress On Campus Energy, Water Savings
Explore NC State’s 2022 Energy and Water Annual Report.![NC State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences professor Dr. Mike Walden working in a recording studio.](https://sustainability.ncsu.edu/multisite/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/walden-360x216.jpg)
You Decide: Will North Carolina Be a Leader in New Energy?
With new technologies on the rise, the energy economy can seem to shift in various directions. Is North Carolina positioned to capitalize on these new paths?![Undergraduate students gather by flowers near Tuck in between residence halls on main campus. Photo by Marc Hall](https://sustainability.ncsu.edu/multisite/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Students-Walk-by-Tucker-360x216.png)
Compete for a Cause: Join the NC State Energy & Water Competition
Students compete to reduce energy and water use in the first annual campus-wide Energy and Water Competition at NC State University.![diagram shows how electrons travel along grain boundaries](https://sustainability.ncsu.edu/multisite/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/amassian-boundary-2023-header-360x216.jpg)