Once and for all, a collection of references to trounce the *baseless* debate / question of comparing the CO2 released by an Electric Vehicle charged with coal generated electricity to a gasoline car.
We powered up our second electric vehicle charging station today! It is a General Electric Wattstation made in Mebane, North Carolina. I was really pleased to know that this product was made in the USA and even better about 100 miles from my home in NC. The WattStation is a level 2 charger. It charged [...]
Story on our solar powered all-electric car by the Catawba Center for the Environment Campaign for Clean Air: http://www.campaignforcleanair.org/news-reader/items/salisbury-family-powers-car-with-solar-rays.html
Real numbers on the electricity cost to run an all electric Nissan Leaf for the first 1,000 miles.
I released a new plug-in for the very popular WordPress blogging and CMS system ! UPDATED: 11/24/2011 new version 3.01, features noted below. The plug-in retrieves solar production from the outstanding Enphase solar microinverter system. Features include: An Administration page to save the API key used to retrieve solar production, near real-time. A side-bar widget [...]
Graphs and comments on the time to charge an all-electric Nissan Leaf. Graphs include total power produced by solar and total consumption by the home.
The first all electric production car in Rowan County for a regular family of four. The first charge was all powered by solar.
Giving another talk about my process of using solar energy to run our home at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on October 13, 2011 at 7PM in Salisbury NC. Download the presentation here.
Big News! We are proud to be a part of Duke Energy’s Charge Carolinas Electric Vehicle (EV) pilot project. I applied to the pilot program after reading about it in an email from Duke’s PEV newsletter that I subscribed to at the Nissan Leaf event at Concord Mills. After a site assessment and filing out [...]
Perhaps someone can clear this up for me since I do Net-Metering… Why would a small solar producer go with NC GreenPower? From my understanding, with NC GreenPower you are required to have a second meter, with a monthly charge of around ($15 per month), then pay some administrative charges to the power company ($2-3 [...]
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