This project, subsidised by the European Commission's Directorate General XII and co-ordinated by Unión Fenosa, was implemented by the Toledo PV European Economic Interest Grouping (in which ENDESA, RWE Energie AG and Unión Fenosa held equal stakes).

The resulting building is energetically self-sufficient thanks to the solar energy - thermal or photovoltaic - captured by its distinctive south facade.

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The "Solar House" is located on the Toledo 1-MW PV Photovoltaic Power Plant site in the municipal district of La Puebla de Montalbán in Toledo, Spain.

The project was begun in November 1992 and the system design completed in December 1994. Construction started in early 1995 and was completed by November of that year.

This exceptional installation was built by conditioning and adding to a concrete structure existing on the site that was formerly part of a gravel pit used during the construction of the nearby Castrejón dam and which now houses various of the bioclimatic building's systems and elements.

The building consists of an assembly room-auditorium (for seminars and other events), vestibule, rest rooms, a small cafeteria, a tunnel carved out of the existing concrete structure to connect the two parts of the building, a pergola adorning the entrance way and an underground machine room.

solar1c.gif (17384 bytes)The seminar room seats up to 40 people.