Here’s the promo video for the Sol-evo PV carport we’ve developed over the last 3 years or so. One of several reasons why this blog has suffered! I try and console myself that at least there’s a good reason.
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Sol-evo PV carport
Posted in feed in tariff, PV, renewable energy, sustainability, zero carbon, tagged Intersolar, PV carport, Sol-evo, Solar EPC on June 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
what rate of return can I get from the PV feed in tariff?
Posted in climate change, consumerism, feed in tariff, PV, renewable energy, uncategorized, tagged DECC on April 25, 2010 | 10 Comments »
It’s taken longer than I’d hoped, but here we go:
solar powered bullsh*t generator
Posted in feed in tariff, PV on April 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The feed in tariff has arrived and my inbox is filling up fast with emails from companies selling PV systems making wild claims about payback periods and rates of return. Some of them are clearly from cowboys. Some of them are from reputable companies that (unless I’ve missed something or they’re temporarily insane) should know [...]
only middle class households to receive PV feed-in-tariff
Posted in feed in tariff, PV on September 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
As currently proposed, the feed-in-tariffs are likely to be the exclusive domain of the middle class with lower income households shut out from participating. To prevent the FiT being accessible only to the middle classes, it needs to be set at a level that allows banks and private equity providers to step in and cover [...]
homespun PV at Alex’s house
Posted in PV on September 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I spent yesterday at Alex Moody’s house (ex-colleague at XCO2) eating barbequed pizza (awesome) and wiring up a home-made PV panel from single cells (even better). Equipped with an almost-hot-enough soldering iron, I was a one man tabbing line while Alex put the wooden box together. When I left in the late afternoon, Alex took [...]
how much PV can you fit on a flat roof?
Posted in energy, engineering, feed in tariff, london, PV, renewable energy, zero carbon, tagged Volker Quaschning on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Following on from discussion about planning reports last week, here’s a chart I put together showing roughly how much PV you can fit on a flat roof. It’s based on the formulas described by Volker Quaschning, the German Godfather of Sol (Thank you! I’ll be here all week. Try the crab). The shading angle is [...]