Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
Luisa Fernanda Carrillo Maza
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Estudio Solar integrates architectural design with sustainable energy through the design, sale and installation of solar panel systems.
Through their work, they are helping business and residential customers have responsible consumption and reduce emissions to the environment. With sustainable energy, these customers are contributing to the preservation of the planet while reducing their costs.
Estudio Solar was stablished on 2013 by two friends, Enrique Tapia Galindo and Reynaldo Cervantes Calderon, young architects offering design, sale, and installation of solar panel systems.
They are located in Mexicali, Baja California, a city in the middle of the desert with very extreme weather, where the habitants pay the highest electrical bills in the nation each summer.
Through solar energy, they contribute to responsible energy consumption, cost savings for their customers, return on their investment in the short and medium term, and they help with climate control.
Being both partners, architects and close college friends with a Masters in Sustainable Energy, their interest was born to create a space focused on Sustainable Architectural and Integral Design. Tapia noted "How can we design in order to be more efficient and consume less energy?"
Sharing this concern, they decided to put into practice the knowledge acquired in the architectural career and in their master's degree in renewable energies, developing architectural projects focused on energy efficiency, sales and installing solar panel systems for the generation of clean energy while reducing carbon emissions.
Cervantes added that "It was something that came naturally. Wills came together."
"The Mexican government spends 50 million pesos a year on subsidies for electric bills," he continued.
When the Estudio Solar Mexicali customers decide to install a solar panel system, they start saving money immediately on their first electrical bill and they become part of a group of people that will reduce 18.4 tons of polluting emissions and also reduce electricity expenses.
In addition, they will have an investment return within four to six years as a commercial customer and eight to ten years as residential one.
Estudio Solar, in collaboration with local authorities, worked on a specific project at a local park, "Bosque de la ciudad," called "SOLAR PLAZA"
While educating Mexicali children, they promote their business solutions and work on creating a mindset for future generations. Now they can reach lots of people to know about this innovation and how they can help our planet in the near future.
Their name is clearly advertised on the solar plaza and, based on this, a lot of potential customers have reached them. The idea is to do something permanent that visitors can learn from as they try to change a mindset for the vision they have for the future.
The main benefits of this innovation are the savings obtained by families and organizations on electricity expenditures. Their projects are developed considering the solar path to obtain clean energy and have smarter construction compared to conventional methods. The panels and solar modules generate electricity thru photovoltaic cells to provide clean energy to the buildings where they are installed.
For their residential customers, where panels are installed, the investment return will take place within the next eight to ten years, and for commercial customers, it will be within six to eight years. Solar panels installed by the company are guaranteed for 25 years.
The environmental benefit, thanks to the generation of electricity through photovoltaic cells, is reduced emission of greenhouse gases since the production of a high percentage of electricity in the world comes from fossil fuel use which contaminates the environment.
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M.Arq. Enrique Tapia Galindo, owner
M.Arq. Reynaldo Cervantes Calderon, owner
Estudio Solar is a company located in Mexicali, Baja California, one of Mexico's warmest cities, where habitants pay up to 300% more than the Mexican national media on electric bills during the summer months.
They are developing projects to provide alternative energy sources such as solar panel systems and looking for comfortable and energy efficient spaces. Meanwhile, they help their customers save money by reducing damage to the environment.
The founders, a couple of young architects, share the vision of a world where people are aware and responsible in taking care of the planet.
