As Tata Steel in India closed the financial year 2010-11, its European operations opened a fresh chapter in its quest to create technologies that could potentially allow future building to become zero carbon emitting structures and also generate their entire energy needs. Tata Steel Europe has set a challenging benchmark to generate power from these green buildings at cost on par with conventional grid power. The new building systems that could potentially generate its own power, with zero dependence on any external or grid sourced power, could be ready in the next three to five years, said company officials at the newly-opened Sustainable Energy Envelope Centre in Shotton, North Wales, UK.

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