Welcome to Ken Clifton’s blog. This site is powered with the open-source WordPress blogging software connected to a MySQL v.5 database. If you are a student, you will be most interested in the “teaching” category content. Please feel free to explore the “About” and “Resume” links at the left. We have Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) [...]
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 [...]
I will be teaching two introductory solar energy classes in August, 2011 at the RCCC North Campus in Salisbury, NC. Each class is 2 hours long. To register for any of the following classes, please call continuing education registration at 704-216-3512 or 704-216-RCCC (7222) to register over the phone. Class information follows: Basics of Solar Electric [...]
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