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NYT: The Secret to Solar Power

The Secret to Solar Power

Stephen Lewis for The New York Times

By JEFF HIMMELMAN

Published: August 9, 2012

Most mornings, Danny Kennedy hops on a bike with orange saddlebags and rides half an hour from his home to Oakland’s Jack London Square. He makes for quite a picture cruising down Telegraph Avenue, decked out as he often is in an orange helmet, orange jacket and orange leather Adidas shoes. When he arrives at his office, he often makes his rounds on an orange indoor bike. (He’s not joking around with the orange thing.) Though Kennedy was once a young environmental activist documenting the horrors of the oil and mining industries, he’s now a 41-year-old company man. The orange that he wears daily — which extends even to the checks on his shirts, and which drives his wife crazy — is the brand color for his rapidly growing residential solar company, Sungevity, whose revenues grew by a factor of eight in 2010 and doubled again in 2011, and whose employees have grown to 260 from 3 since the company’s inception five years ago.

Harvard Athletics sports solar panels | Harvard Gazette

Harvard Athletics sports solar panels | Harvard Gazette


Harvard College senior Justin Lanning had been running the stairs in Harvard Stadium since January, but it was early this spring when he noticed something different as he reached the top of the steps and took a quick rest before heading back down. Across a parking lot, on the roof of the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis building, workers were beginning to install rooftop solar panels as part of what has become Harvard’s largest solar energy project.

I've just saved a ton of money on my electricity

I cut my electricity bill to more than half for the billing period ending April. It was only $22 this month! Also note that the panels were only connected the last week of March. We will see how this looks for the summer as I being using the A/C more. Panels are averaging about 20kwh each so far

If you're interested in getting a free quote from Sungevity. http://bit.ly/sungevity This referral will provide both you and I a $500 gift card.

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Turn on your system!

Finally get the go ahead to turn on my system. However, I'm out of town at the moment.

Completion Documents Needed

Received an e-mail from Sungevity that one more document needed to be signed. I was proactive and talked to NStar on Feb 21st. 

The following items are needed to complete the interconnection process.

1. photos of the array, the inverter & the external AC Disconnect
2. a copy of the Certificate of Completion
3. a copy of the signed final electrical permit (if the electrical inspector did not sign the Cert of Completion)
4. Terms & Conditions signed by Sungevity
5. Exhibit G signed by you (this will be sent upon receipt of Terms & Conditions from Sungevity)
6. Schedule Z signed by you

Please send these items at your earliest convenience.

Didn't get a notice from Sungevity that Exhibit G needed to be signed until Mar 15.

System Inspection Complete

The electrician finished up their job a few days ago but Sungevity needed to have one of their reps to make sure the job is complete.

Darden now has Florida's biggest privately owned solar array

By Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel

10:20 p.m. EST, February 9, 2012

Darden Restaurants Inc. dedicates today a new array of solar panels that is so large it creates a canopy over the four-story parking garage at the company's headquarters in south Orange County.

It is, essentially, a utility-scale power plant, rated at 1.1 million watts.

Sungevity - Step 7 of 8

Inspection took place today and now NStar needs to provide the interconnect.

Sungevity - Step 6 of 8 Sequence

Sungevity - Step 6 of 8

Finally!

Pushing the Green Button for Energy Savings

By JIM WITKIN

The White House hopes that someday soon everyone will be able to monitor and control their home energy usage, and lower their monthly utility bills, with a few swipes on a smartphone app. At least that’s the vision of the Green Button initiative, a recent White House effort to bring together the nation’s utilities, energy consumers and private industry to develop Internet and mobile phone-style technologies and business models aimed at reducing energy consumption.