Posts tagged: solar

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 »

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 »

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 »

NC Renewable Energy Certificates Available for Solar Set-Aside

I have NC Renewable Energy Certificates Available for Solar Set-Aside We have two Renewable Energy Facilities registered in the NC-RETS Renewable Energy Portfolio Tracking System.  Both facilities are located inside North Carolina and produce power from certified and calibrated metered systems.  I will consider selling solar PV and metered solar thermal RECS to North Carolina [...]

Wednesday December 28th, 2011 in , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Cost to Run an Electric Car for the First 1000 miles…

Real numbers on the electricity cost to run an all electric Nissan Leaf for the first 1,000 miles.

Thursday December 15th, 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 »

The First All-Electric Nissan in Rowan County

The first all electric production car in Rowan County for a regular family of four. The first charge was all powered by solar.

Saturday November 5th, 2011 in , , , , | 1 Comment »

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 »

August Introductory Solar Classes

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 [...]

Friday July 15th, 2011 in , , , , | 2 Comments »