• We can reduce our carbon emissions significantly through energy efficiency and using renewable energy.
  • Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels is the single biggest human contribution to climate change.
  • Join us in using the sun, the wind, the water, the earth and the trees to generate our future energy needs.
  • Solar Cities Scotland aims to develop and promote the use of renewable energy in all its forms and offer practical advice on low carbon living for urban communities across Scotland.
  • We can reduce our carbon emissions significantly through energy efficiency and using renewable energy.
  • Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels is the single biggest human contribution to climate change.
  • Join us in using the sun, the wind, the water, the earth and the trees to generate our future energy needs.
  • Solar Cities Scotland aims to develop and promote the use of renewable energy in all its forms and offer practical advice on low carbon living for urban communities across Scotland.
  • We can reduce our carbon emissions significantly through energy efficiency and using renewable energy.
  • Carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels is the single biggest human contribution to climate change.
  • Join us in using the sun, the wind, the water, the earth and the trees to generate our future energy needs.
  • Solar Cities Scotland aims to develop and promote the use of renewable energy in all its forms and offer practical advice on low carbon living for urban communities across Scotland.
  • We can reduce our carbon emissions significantly through energy efficiency and using renewable energy.
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Original building at Whitfield, Dundee

Sun City House

Solar Cities Scotland in partnership with Dundee City Council and energy efficiency agency SCARF has developed a demonstration house in the Whitfield area of Dundee. The Sun City House provides a focus for demonstration, education, advice and information about domestic scale renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable construction to households and the general public in Dundee and throughout central and north east Scotland.

Unlike most “eco-house” type demonstration projects, the Sun City House is not new build, but a major refurbishment and remodelling of a poorly constructed and thermally inefficient janitors house built in the 1960s.

It aims to showcase technologies, materials and methods of construction that can be retrofitted to existing housing stock, where the major challenge lies in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the domestic sector in the UK. It acts as a shop window to offer ideas to everyone, on every income, to help them reduce their home’s impact on the environment, be it low energy lighting, a solar water heating system or a sun space extension.

Funding for the Sun City House has come from Dundee City Council, Sust, and the DTI through the University of Strathclyde. The project would not be possible however without the overwhelming support from the private sector through donations of goods and services that has been received.

The Sun City House has been open to the public since November 2008 and since then has attracted over 1000 visitors. SCARF's Energy Saving Scotland Advice Centre Staff are the tenants of the Sun City House. They provide guided tours as well as impartial advice and information for householders on how to do this at home.

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Sun City House Energy Use

Dundee Sun House is Solar Cities Scotland’s demonstration eco house. It contains a number of energy saving and creating technologies that are applicable in domestic and business situations once you have tackled all your insulation and energy efficiency measures. Making decision on what technology is best for you is mainly a decision based on the costs and benefits of installing them in your property and we hope that by providing data on the performance of some of our technologies you can get a feel for how this might apply to your situation. Please contact us if you would like any further details. The data is updated every 70 seconds.

The Solar PV energy output:

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The solar thermal system:


View Combined Solar Thermal and Indoor/Outdoor Temperatures

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Sun City House Contributors

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Solar Cities Scotland
SCARF
Dundee City Council
University of Strathclyde
Sust

Solar Cities Scotland is a registered Scottish charity (SC 037308) and a company limited by guarantee (SC 297817)