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Works fine but client wanted in place meetings. It was a 5 MW combined heat and power plant construction project so boots on the ground...

There are warehouses full of panels all over the world right now. China needs cash and is dumping as many as they can. Even with tariffs...

The wind loading calculations appear to change significantly once the panel sticks past the ridgeline. Wind uplift starts to become...

Years ago, I worked for a small regional public utility (water) and we had lots of easements obtained over the 100 years of operation. A...

I spent 4 months driving from the Northern Whites in NH to Worcester Mass (near Marlborough) once a week for a weekly meeting, 405 miles...

Just think of it as going to a Patriots game (same town as Alt E) ;)

I think the Lucas mill has a 20 HP onan on it.

No idea, its the biggest model the local logging supply store normally stocks for New England logging. They make them bigger for west...

My neighbor and I are doing a project creating benches and tables to sell for wounded warrior project. Not only fun, but satisfying.

In my area exposed conduit where it comes out the ground needs to be metal of sch 80 extra heavy conduit. It also needs to be equipped...

Microinverters are sort of like the musicians in a marching band, they do their part but there still needs to be conductor setting the...

These flexible panels popped up while looking for something else. Seems to check off the right boxes. https://merlinsolar.com/ Of...

Converting a big white pine into firewood. About 48" at the base, it was around 120 feet high. I hired a tree climber to climb it, He...

Trusting a supplier to size a solar panel for my solar hot water system criculator pump. They sent me a 40 watt panel and it needed 60...

I needed a bit more pump head on my setup. My pump is set about 15 feet (4.5 meters) below ground. The tank is a plastic IBC tank that...

FWIW I have about 100 watts of "antique" Siemens panels hooked directly to a submersible pump that pumps up to an elevated tank with a...

It's worth reviewing this old video clip and the attached PDFs on how frost and frost heaves work in Maine. Dick Hill passed away but...

I had a Delta on my deceased Fronius Inverter after a utility hit nearby. My neighbor got it the worst but I lost the inverter and a...

What you probably want is power quality analyzer. Very pricey but fantastic for tracking down intermittent issues.

You need to look up your local tariffs as they are specific to every utility. Some rare utilities have programs that would allow you yo...