SunEdison Solar Energy Inverter and Grid Interconnection

March 6, 2007
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Broad Adoption of ANSI C12 in Inverter Manufacturing Phase by January 2009 Will Simplify Solar Energy System Output Reporting for Interconnection to the Grid
Source: SunEdison
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SunEdison, North America’s first and largest solar energy services provider, announced that SunEdison, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), and inverter industry leaders SatCon Technology (Nasdaq CM:SATC) and Xantrex Technology (TSX:XTX) will support the adoption of utility industry standard ANSI C12. The adoption of the ANSI C12 at the inverter level by January 2009 will standardize detailed system level output reporting for solar photovoltaic power plants and hybrid grid systems (photovoltaic deployed at traditional utilities).
Currently, utilities and solar energy service providers measure AC power output at the meter to the ANSI C12 standard, but not to the inverter level. At the inverter level, each solar system deployment requires specific knowledge of that particular system’s information technology and software.

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‘Green’ construction

March 5, 2007
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“Reclaimed wood siding, recycled sunflower seed countertops and bamboo flooring are materials you might expect to find in homes that did green construction in Seattle or San Francisco. Green Roofs in the Twin Cities Green roofs are hot. Or cool, actually. The main green-roof go-to guy in the Twin Cities is landscape architect L. Peter […]

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Barbados Renewable Energy: Stands to Benefit

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Source: The Barbados Advocate
Web Posted – Mon Mar 05 2007
By Nicholas Cox
I ONLY recently learned that electric cars were popular early in the last century, outselling vehicles with internal combustion engines during that time period, and boasting greater energy efficiency.
Unfortunately, these electric cars, officially called battery electric vehicles (BEVs), became obsolete after the electric starter was introduced in favour of internal combustion engines. My interest in BEVs was piqued last week because of a headline on television describing an electric car with better performance than a Ferrari or a Porsche.
The story featured the Tesla Roadster, a 100 per cent electric vehicle, which can reach 0 to 60 in about four seconds, and uses the equivalent of 135 miles per gallon, with 250 miles per charge. When it was over, all I could think was I want one!

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A Visionary Plugs In to the Electric Car Race

January 11, 2007
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DETROIT — To say the least, Malcolm Bricklin, chairman and chief executive of Visionary Vehicles, is tenacious.
Bricklin brought Subaru, the gull-winged Bricklin SV-1 and Yugo automobiles to North America from the late 1960s through the early 1980s.
Some of his ventures, such as that with Subaru, were bona fide successes. Others, such as that with the Bricklin SV-1 and the ill-fated Yugo, were failures.
I met and spoke with Malcolm many times recently regarding the new car and he changed positions on the car several times. So, he’s plugged in but readily willing to change direction mid-stream.

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