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A little solar analysis..

bsaitz — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:34:11 +0000

For the pending sale of the house, I whipped up a few slides on the savings, pretty compelling stuff.

Namaste Bringing the Solar Love to a new stage!

bsaitz — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:33:58 +0000

The CEO of Namaste Solar, our installer, was at President Obama and Vice President Biden’s signing of the stimulus package.. sooo cool.

Some old pics that may have gotten lost..

bsaitz — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:26:01 +0000

When I moved servers, I may have lost links to these cool pics:

solar roof
solar
solar3 – just a bunch of random shots
solar box – the conduit and goodies

Keeping track of the solar trends

bsaitz — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:29:28 +0000

Interesting trends here.. in October, our YOY solar use went UP! But that looks to be because last year at that time we had one of our lowest months ever (254). Still, Oct of 2008 was 54% less than 2 years ago (pre-solar). November returned us to good trends, with a 36.5% decrease YOY in solar consumption. And, like October, 54.6% over 2 years ago. So, in general, the trends continue to be good. These are good months, we don’t use the A/C and the sun remains strong on our panels. It’s kind of cool to use the clothes line, but Aviva is great and will if it’s warm enough.

The raw data:

Updated chart:

Arrow highlights recent period.

Xcel seeks rate increase in Colorado

bsaitz — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:53:44 +0000

Xcel seeks rate increase in Colorado – The Denver Post.

An $5 a month or 8.4% increase in the price of electricity just helps the solar panels ROI get achieved faster..

Nice to work for a Green company

bsaitz — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:01:23 +0000

good article on c|net

with sweet datacenters!

Only a 61% decline in electric consumption ;-)

bsaitz — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:36:06 +0000

Solar rocking continues.. and I’m trying to embed my Google Spreadsheet

I better bolt down the panels!

bsaitz — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:21:15 +0000

Scary to read, but I won’t let it worry me – people stealing solar panels..

Green Tech – CNET News

bsaitz — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:04:05 +0000

Green Tech – CNET News. Love a blog dedicated not just to green, but green & tech!

Whats Your Solar Potential? – RoofRay

bsaitz — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:03:31 +0000

Whats Your Solar Potential? – RoofRay.

holy moley that is cool! they worked up an estimate of my solar intake.. i dont have time to check the accuracy of it…

Summer sucks, but solar hanging tough

bsaitz — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:30:50 +0000

July/August this year was just H-O-T! We had like 26 days straight where it hit 90 degrees.. and it felt it. To compoud things, the dogs were home all day, we had workmen in the house – so had all their tools working and run both zones of the A/C to keep them from sweltering. After all that, we still managed a 53.4% reduction in YOY (year over year) electric consumption, thanks to the solar system. This is about what I expected, knowing the kind of weather we’d been enduring and how much A/C had been used.

For those keeping score at home:

Colorado to Ditch Two Coal Plants, Moving to Solar and Wind : Red, Green, and Blue

bsaitz — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:49:51 +0000

Colorado to Ditch Two Coal Plants, Moving to Solar and Wind : Red, Green, and Blue.

Colorado is way ahead in these areas.. real nice to see, I like to think they are following my example