Solar Settlement at Schlierberg

Solar architect Rolf Disch wanted to apply his PlusEnergy concept, created originally with his Heliotrope home, to mass residential production.

[citation needed] It is one of the first housing communities in the world[1] in which all the homes produce a positive energy balance[2] and which is emissions-free and CO2 neutral.

[citation needed] The Solar Settlement at Schlierberg is a 59-home PlusEnergy housing community at Elly-Heuss-Knapp-Strasse/ Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse adjacent to the Vauban quarter about 3 km from Freiburg city centre in South West Germany.

The south facing roofs are covered with photovoltaic modules with a generation potential of 445 kWp of the entire site.

[citation needed] In 1994, Disch had created the first PlusEnergy house in the world with the completion of his private residence, the Heliotrope.