Posts tagged: Renewable Energy

New Going Green Class on March 24 at RCCC

New Energy Saving Class at RCCC on Saturday, March 24 from 9-11 AM. Topics include Electric Cars, Charging Stations, Energy Audits, Hyper-Insulation, Solar Thermal, Solar PV, Biomass, Pellet heating, biomass and much more.

Tuesday February 21st, 2012 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Power Your Home from a Leaf

Nissan is reported to be working on a home adapter to allow a Leaf EV to provide power to a home, according to (click to read stories referenced) [Bloomberg and PC World via Consumer Reports] So perhaps sometime this year our Leafs could stand in as a generator!

Monday January 30th, 2012 in , , , , , , | No Comments »

Any RV Park or Campground is a Charging Station

It occurred to me a while back that with a portable or plug-connected Level-2 charger, such as the Leviton Evr-Green 160, any RV Park could be a charging station for an electric vehicle.  This really increases the coverage for someone with a portable station. Apparently, someone else has thought of this too. Read the story [...]

Saturday January 28th, 2012 in , , , , , , | No Comments »

Trouncing the EV Powered by Coal Generated Electricity Argument

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.

Sunday January 22nd, 2012 in , , , , , | 4 Comments »

Welcome!

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) [...]

Saturday January 7th, 2012 in , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Story on Our Solar-Powered Nissan Leaf by the Center for the Environment

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

Wednesday December 28th, 2011 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Going Green via Solar with WordPress ™

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 [...]

Saturday November 26th, 2011 in , , , | No Comments »

Time to Charge an Electric Car (really…)

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.

Tuesday November 8th, 2011 in , , , , , , | 6 Comments »

Solar Presentation at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church

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.

Wednesday October 12th, 2011 in , , , | No Comments »

Why Would A Solar Producer Go With NC GreenPower?

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 [...]

Sunday September 25th, 2011 in , , , | No Comments »