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O.K ! Now what are your needs ? A suite of energy efficient appliances for a start. Click here to examine a typical scenario of an energy efficient home.
Now Click here to go to my energy estimation sheet, to formulate an energy budget for your particular lifestyle
Once you know how many daily watt-hours you're going to consume, the power system can be designed. Click here to size the system.
Every installation is different but I have designed systems for most applications the "Planet Suite" is our collection of perfectly balanced "heavenly bodies".
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To my master's at the Royal Hospital School. (1965-1970 AD)
Who handed me the key's to a new age. www.royalhospitalschool.org.
"Harry Potter eat your heart out ! "
"Every Star a Sun ! Sun's have planet's !! Is your world flat???
In an attempt to present solar power to you all in an attractive,
inspiring, and comprehensible manner, I have designed the following standard solar power systems, for domestic and light industrial purposes, and named them after the planets in our solar system. " The Planets Suite" They are based on my quarter century of practical experience in designing and installing such systems..
The average daily solar energy delivery is calculated at the "equinox" ( mid season) with a daily average solar insolation level of 5.5 peak sun hours, as typical of Mediterranean climates, such as Perth, Western Australia, Lat 32 deg South. The watt-hours produced are nett,ie, genuine energy available for use, after system losses.
So That 1000 watt-hours = 1 Kilowatt-hour = 1 unit of electricity, as you would be familiar with on your power bill.
The "Planets Suite" is designed to be used in conjunction with the existing mains supply. If you wish to use them as "stand alone" then battery capacities will need to be increased by a factor of 3 to 5 times depending on latitude and cloud factor.
Is more cost effective and stable than "grid feed", especially in areas where the mains is unreliable. Furthermore, "grid switched"because it incorporates energy storage,
substantially reduces the electrical load on the power distribution network during peak periods. Grid feed systems cannot do this, because the Sun's output is out of sync with demand, and more often not available when most needed !
Grid switched systems supply certain power points with solar electricity, and other power points from the mains. Non priority appliances automatically revert to mains power depending on weather conditions and state of charge of the energy storage system ( battery), leaving priority circuits such as computers, lighting, office equipment, communications etc continuously on pure, stable solar power. Grid switched systems, because they can be electrically isolated from the mains, provide an "electrical firewall",in "solar mode", protecting sensitive, valuable appliances from damaging mains borne disturbances and outages.
Is mainly politically motivated, to entice the unwitting consumer to invest in public infrastructure, with minimal benefit to themselves.
Is appropriate if you wish to invest in serious "energy farming", and are prepared to install solar energy capacity way above your own daily average requirements. The solar grid feed inverter synchronizes to, and runs in parallel with the grid, feeding excess production into the grid, and drawing from it as required depending on the availability of solar energy and the electrical load presented by appliances at any given time.
Simple grid feed systems do not provide any electrical isolation or protection from mains borne disturbances and outages because they are in parallel with the mains. Neither can they guarantee supply, because they have no battery back up, and, in my opinion, if you are spending many thousands of dollars on an advanced power system, it should be failsafe, and guarantee stable supply !
More sophisticated solar "grid feed" inverters do have provision for battery back up, but they are expensive, and still do not provide isolation and protection from mains disturbances except during complete mains failure, when they are running on battery supply.
Utility companies favour grid feed, because it gives them access to renewable energy generating capacity without any capital outlay of their own, and enables their marketing gurus and spin doctors to tell consumers how clean and green they are, and to on sell this energy to others at a premium rate. Utilities and Unions do not favour batteries in solar power systems because it gives the consumer independence and choice of supply. They often denigrate batteries, claiming they are expensive, maintenance prone and inefficient, but in cunningly crafted systems such as my "Planets Suite" this is not the case at all, on the contrary, they enable a new standard in quality, stable power to be realized !
As environmental and fuel crises deepen with every passing month, and fossil based society begins to convulse, renewable energies will take their rightful place at centre stage.
As far as photo-voltaic power generation is concerned, it is the "Thin Film" technologies that offer the greatest advantages.
The factories that produce them, can be built at a small fraction of the cost of factories producing 50 year old crystalline types, and consume comparatively miniscule amounts of raw materials and energy.
Thin film panels offer the ultimate in sustainable, mass production potential, and this will prove critical, for to stabilise the environment, time is of the essence. If you unwittingly purchase crystalline solar panels, sadly, you are merely grafting wings onto a brick ! Click on the following link and arm yourselves....with knowledge and truth, and make a difference ! Manufacturing processes.
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As of August 2008, all our UNI-SUN thin film panels will be
manufactured from a "state of the art" Copper / Indium / Selenium compound. This is another major step forward, offering superior performance under all sunlight conditions, for enhanced average daily energy delivery.
Our USN-65 panel is available in 24 volts, and may be wired in series ( daisy chained ) to achieve higher voltages. This ground breaking 65 watt panel will produce equal or better output to an 80 Watt crystalline unit.
I urge you to consider the future, and support our superior technologies, for they are the key to the widespread and meaningful application of solar generated power on this planet.
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