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TVA: Killing Solar with 3 Easy Steps:
1. Step one. Develop and publicize a “beneficial” solar program. Accept accolades for being a “solar proponent.” TVA has for the past few years been fine tuning and running a solar program in the Tennessee Valley. This program started small, … Continue reading
Waste is how we “do” energy
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory released it’s 2011 energy usage flow chart graphic… And it is amazing. It looks overwhelmingly complicated at first, but once you have looked at it for a while and figured out what the image is portraying it … Continue reading
TVA’s solar program phasing out Incentives…
All good things must come to an end. And TVA has again changed their Generation Partner Program. They have publicly stated that they are making the change over from a “pilot program” to a “regular program”. I have previously explained … Continue reading
Obama, Be Nice, the Chinese are our Friends!
The news is filled with speculation and consternation about the complaint filed by Solar World claiming that the Chinese are flooding the market with inexpensive PV modules and damaging American manufacturing. The complaint requests that the ITC (international trade … Continue reading
SketchUp for solar- 3D modeling brings home the sun!
Site designs have been 2D for years, simple sketches that show where the solar array will be mounted to the house. That is normally effective and can give the general idea of what a solar system will look like installed … Continue reading
Troubleshooting PV- for the Lazy (and frugal)!
“Happy MegaWatt Day” I didn’t realize it, but the solar system on our house recently produced one full Megawatt hour of electricity (1000 kwhs). I haven’t been tracking closely, but my friend has! I realized it when I got an … Continue reading
Solar’s “Breaking Dawn”
Ok, I’m not much for Vampire movies. I’ll admit it. I have watched a few of them with my wife (to be social), and wouldn’t say that I was bored….. They just aren’t my movie preference. Of course, I would … Continue reading
Those “Evil” Free Market Chinese- Part 1
Last month SolarWorld (a German company) and 6 un-named “Co-conspirators” filed a complaint in Congress alleging that China is “dumping” their solar panels in the US and that US manufacturers need to impose a tariff of 30% to 100% on … Continue reading
Enphase launches big!
Enphase has finally put their new generation of microinverters on the market. They have done it right. With the new product they have fixed the two MAIN compaints that anyone has ever brought up against the micro-inverters. 1. They … Continue reading
MicroInverters on Steroids
Enphase is coming out with the next (3rd) generation of microinverter and we will have them for sale in July. These new microinverters work with larger modules, are more efficient and will be coming in at about the same … Continue reading
