The BatteryMINDer Solar Charging System is an ideal choice for 12 Volt battery operations. This complete system is specifically designed for charging and maintaining up to four 12V batteries of any size/type/brand. Extends performance and life of 12V lead-acid, maintenance-free, marine deep cycle and sealed AGM batteries. Fully automatic desulfator dissolves life-shortening sulfate using safe low voltage high frequency pulses. Charges: Yes, Maintains: Yes, Desulfates: Yes, Conditioner: Yes, Works With: 12V lead-acid batteries, Amps: 1.25, Trickle Charge Amps: Regulated up to 1.25A, Charges Multiple Batteries (qty.): 4, Overcharge Protection: Yes, Polarity Reversal Protection: Yes, Power Source: Solar panel, Power Cord (ft.): 20in. from panel to controller Built-in automatic desulfator Not for use with aircraft batteries
PowerG Grid-Tie Solar System offers this grid-tie solar system that is designed for residential and commercial applications. The kit provides an investment-grade array of solar panels, inverters, racking and technical support to capture the power of the sun for your home or business. High-performance 240 Watt, 72 cell monocrystalline solar panels (64.6in.L x 39.1in.W x 1.8in.H) collect power and heavy-duty, 60Hz based inverter converts solar energy to grid-tie compliant AC power. Call 888-955-3469 for free online evaluation and quote. Common Usage: Grid-Tie System, Panel Type: Monocrystalline, Solar Panel Wattage: 240 Per panel, Rated Watts (kW): 2.88, Dimensions L x W (in.): 64 5/8 x 39 1/8, Thickness (in.): 1 13/16, Material Type: 72 Cell monocrystalline, Solar Panels Included (qty.): 12, Battery Qty.: 0, Mounting Hardware Included: Yes Reduce or even eliminate electrical bills; in some cases system can spin meter backwards and sell excess electricity back to the utility
PowerG Grid-Tie Solar System offers this grid-tie solar system that is designed for residential and commercial applications. The kit provides an investment-grade array of solar panels, inverters, racking and technical support to capture the power of the sun for your home or business. High-performance 240 Watt, 72 cell monocrystalline solar panels (64.6in.L x 39.1in.W x 1.8in.H) collect power and heavy-duty, 60Hz based inverter converts solar energy to grid-tie compliant AC power. Call 888-955-3469 for a free online site evaluation and quote. Common Usage: Grid-Tie System, Panel Type: Monocrystalline, Solar Panel Wattage: 240 Per panel, Rated Watts (kW): 2.18, Dimensions L x W (in.): 64 5/8 x 39 1/8, Thickness (in.): 1 13/16, Material Type: 72 Cell monocrystalline, Solar Panels Included (qty.): 9, Battery Qty.: 0, Mounting Hardware Included: Yes Reduce or even eliminate electrical bills; in some cases system can spin meter backwards and sell excess electricity back to the utility
PowerG Grid-Tie Solar System offers this grid-tie solar system that is designed for residential and commercial applications. The kit provides an investment-grade array of solar panels, inverters, racking and technical support to capture the power of the sun for your home or business. High-performance 240 Watt, 72 cell monocrystalline solar panels (64.6in.L x 39.1in.W x 1.8in.H) collect power and heavy-duty, 60Hz based inverter converts solar energy to grid-tie compliant AC power. Call 888-955-3469 for free online evaluation and quote. Common Usage: Grid-Tie System, Panel Type: Monocrystalline, Solar Panel Wattage: 240 Per panel, Rated Watts (kW): 7.92, Dimensions L x W (in.): 64 5/8 x 39 1/8, Thickness (in.): 1 13/16, Material Type: 72 Cell monocrystalline, Solar Panels Included (qty.): 33, Battery Qty.: 0, Mounting Hardware Included: Yes Reduce or even eliminate electrical bills; in some cases system can spin meter backwards and sell excess electricity back to the utility
PowerG Grid-Tie Solar System offers this grid-tie solar system that is designed for residential and commercial applications. The kit provides an investment-grade array of solar panels, inverters, racking and technical support to capture the power of the sun for your home or business. High-performance 240 Watt, 72 cell monocrystalline solar panels (64.6in.L x 39.1in.W x 1.8in.H) collect power and heavy-duty, 60Hz based inverter converts solar energy to grid-tie compliant AC power. Call 888-955-3469 for free online evaluation and quote. Common Usage: Grid-Tie System, Panel Type: Monocrystalline, Solar Panel Wattage: 240 Per panel, Rated Watts (kW): 5.76, Dimensions L x W (in.): 64 5/8 x 39 1/8, Thickness (in.): 1 13/16, Material Type: 72 Cell monocrystalline, Solar Panels Included (qty.): 24, Battery Qty.: 0, Mounting Hardware Included: Yes Reduce or even eliminate electrical bills; in some cases system can spin meter backwards and sell excess electricity back to the utility
Optimizes all solar panels charge rates. Prevents over/under charging. Full time desulphation pulses safely extends life and performance of all batteries. Features exclusive U.S. Patented PulseMode desulphation circuitry, designed to safely remove sulphation. Charges: Yes, Maintains: Yes, Desulfates: Yes, Conditioner: Yes, Works With: All batteries / 12V lead-acid, Amps: .45, Trickle Charge Amps: Regulated up to 0.45 as needed, Charges Multiple Batteries (qty.): 1, Overcharge Protection: Yes, Polarity Reversal Protection: Yes, Power Source: Solar panel, Power Cord (ft.): 20 Not for use with aircraft batteries
First story that I have seen coming out of Kentucky. I don’t believe that any net metering was available in the state until this project. This is the first step in bringing solar power to the Blue Grass State.
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BGMU customers can now ‘sell’ solar energy
ALIVE Center first to install panels; power to be bought back by TVA
By JIM GAINES, The Daily News, jgaines@bgdailynews.com
Sunday, December 16, 2007 1:03 AM CST
Electric customers of Bowling Green Municipal Utilities can now “sell” solar or wind power they generate back to the utility and its supplier, under an agreement approved Monday by BGMU’s board.
The utility buys all of its power from Tennessee Valley Authority. But starting early next year, it will have one small-scale local supplier: the ALIVE Center, which will install solar panels on the roof of its facility at 1818 U.S. 31-W By-Pass.
As a center for building community partnerships, the ALIVE Center is interested in regional issues like environmental sustainability, and so wanted to demonstrate its own commitment, interim director Paul Markham said.
Kaveh Khatir, associate professor of architecture and manufacturing sciences, had the solar panels left over from other research, Markham said.
“It’ll be installed after the first of the year,” he said.
Markham said Nancy Givens was instrumental in getting the center into TVA’s Green Power Switch Generation Partners program.
“She has done the real footwork with getting that together,” he said. “The equipment itself is equipment that Western has from a previous project.”
Givens is instructional coordinator at Western’s Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching, and chairs the BG Green Partnership for a Sustainable Community.
BG Green has been trying to publicize solar energy in the last year, Givens said.
“We thought, really, if we’re going to interest people in solar energy, they’re going to have to see it,” she said.
The price TVA is paying for wind or solar power is twice what the utility charges customers for electricity, Givens said, which will help offset some of the higher start-up cost for generating green power. Of course, that’s going to be cheaper for the ALIVE Center than for most people, since Western already had the materials.
“The actual installation is going to cost in the neighborhood of $5,000,” she said; there are no solar installers in this area, so one is being hired from Berea.
At a guess, Givens figures it will take five to eight years for the system to repay its installation costs. Once the new meters are in place by early February, the ALIVE Center will start collecting financial data, which it will share with others interested in solar power.
Since it costs quite a bit to set up solar or wind generators, not many people may do so, but BGMU will welcome more households and businesses doing so as long as TVA offers the buy-back program, said Miles McDaniel, BGMU’s manager of business development and marketing. Signing up will mostly involve some paperwork for TVA, BGMU and the potential generator, he said.
Those small generators do have to meet certain electric codes, and there are some potential safety issues, McDaniel said. For example, if BGMU crews are out working on a downed power line, they have to be sure not only that power from TVA is cut off, but also any current from small generators like the ALIVE Center.
It’s taken a couple of months of negotiations to work out details of the deal, Givens said. Since this is a first for BGMU, there were a lot of questions and decisions to be made on connecting the two systems. That, she expects, should be easier for the next applicant.
As of October 2007, TVA was buying solar power from 26 households and six small businesses, TVA spokesman Jim Allen said. Together, they generated about 200,000 kilowatt-hours, getting credits of $32,600, he said.
TVA buys the power at the rate of 15 cents per kWh, which appears as a credit on monthly power bills, Allen said. According to the TVA Web site, residential generators could qualify for a $500 incentive to offset start-up costs.
Although solar power generators are very expensive to install, there’s a lot of research going on that should eventually make them cheaper; and with a state goal of generating 25 percent of Kentucky’s energy from renewable sources by 2025, solar should be given a big push soon, Givens said. She expects that will result in a dramatic drop of prices for solar power in one to three years.
More information on solar energy can be obtained from the Kentucky Solar Parntership at http://www.kysolar.org, or the American Solar Energy Society at http://www.ases.org.
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First story that I have seen coming out of Kentucky. I don’t believe that any net metering was available in the state until this project. This is the first step in bringing solar power to the Blue Grass State.
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BGMU customers can now ‘sell’ solar energy
ALIVE Center first to install panels; power to be bought back by TVA
By JIM GAINES, The Daily News, jgaines@bgdailynews.com
Sunday, December 16, 2007 1:03 AM CST
Electric customers of Bowling Green Municipal Utilities can now “sell” solar or wind power they generate back to the utility and its supplier, under an agreement approved Monday by BGMU’s board.
The utility buys all of its power from Tennessee Valley Authority. But starting early next year, it will have one small-scale local supplier: the ALIVE Center, which will install solar panels on the roof of its facility at 1818 U.S. 31-W By-Pass.
As a center for building community partnerships, the ALIVE Center is interested in regional issues like environmental sustainability, and so wanted to demonstrate its own commitment, interim director Paul Markham said.
Kaveh Khatir, associate professor of architecture and manufacturing sciences, had the solar panels left over from other research, Markham said.
“It’ll be installed after the first of the year,” he said.
Markham said Nancy Givens was instrumental in getting the center into TVA’s Green Power Switch Generation Partners program.
“She has done the real footwork with getting that together,” he said. “The equipment itself is equipment that Western has from a previous project.”
Givens is instructional coordinator at Western’s Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching, and chairs the BG Green Partnership for a Sustainable Community.
BG Green has been trying to publicize solar energy in the last year, Givens said.
“We thought, really, if we’re going to interest people in solar energy, they’re going to have to see it,” she said.
The price TVA is paying for wind or solar power is twice what the utility charges customers for electricity, Givens said, which will help offset some of the higher start-up cost for generating green power. Of course, that’s going to be cheaper for the ALIVE Center than for most people, since Western already had the materials.
“The actual installation is going to cost in the neighborhood of $5,000,” she said; there are no solar installers in this area, so one is being hired from Berea.
At a guess, Givens figures it will take five to eight years for the system to repay its installation costs. Once the new meters are in place by early February, the ALIVE Center will start collecting financial data, which it will share with others interested in solar power.
Since it costs quite a bit to set up solar or wind generators, not many people may do so, but BGMU will welcome more households and businesses doing so as long as TVA offers the buy-back program, said Miles McDaniel, BGMU’s manager of business development and marketing. Signing up will mostly involve some paperwork for TVA, BGMU and the potential generator, he said.
Those small generators do have to meet certain electric codes, and there are some potential safety issues, McDaniel said. For example, if BGMU crews are out working on a downed power line, they have to be sure not only that power from TVA is cut off, but also any current from small generators like the ALIVE Center.
It’s taken a couple of months of negotiations to work out details of the deal, Givens said. Since this is a first for BGMU, there were a lot of questions and decisions to be made on connecting the two systems. That, she expects, should be easier for the next applicant.
As of October 2007, TVA was buying solar power from 26 households and six small businesses, TVA spokesman Jim Allen said. Together, they generated about 200,000 kilowatt-hours, getting credits of $32,600, he said.
TVA buys the power at the rate of 15 cents per kWh, which appears as a credit on monthly power bills, Allen said. According to the TVA Web site, residential generators could qualify for a $500 incentive to offset start-up costs.
Although solar power generators are very expensive to install, there’s a lot of research going on that should eventually make them cheaper; and with a state goal of generating 25 percent of Kentucky’s energy from renewable sources by 2025, solar should be given a big push soon, Givens said. She expects that will result in a dramatic drop of prices for solar power in one to three years.
— For more information on TVA’s Green Power Switch Generation Partners program, visit http://www.tva.gov/greenpowerswitch/index.htm or call BGMU at 782-1200.
More information on solar energy can be obtained from the Kentucky Solar Parntership at http://www.kysolar.org, or the American Solar Energy Society at http://www.ases.org.