13th July, 2007: Friday the 13th
There is always apprehension when you talk about doing things on Friday the 13th but that is not stopping us from moving forward with a major project. Bigelow Tea has been working with the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, CCEF, on a 194 kW solar system. Over the last several months this project has been proposed, funded, and approved but the visible work will now finally start to happen.
On Friday the 13th a crane will be lifting the solar panels and associated hardware onto our 3rd and 5th story roof. Then over the next two to three weeks the panels will be installed, wired and tested. By mid August we should be producing power. This solar array will be the 2nd largest in the state and will produce 10 to 20% of our power demand. Now we can make green tea and green power at the same time.
Dean
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Now that the panels are in place, are you measuring the Kilowatts produced and consumed? Does Bigelow have plans to also explore wind energy in places like Boise, Idaho? or another solar plant?
Comment by Terry — October 8, 2007 @ 2:30 pm
The solar panels are going through the final buy off by United Illuminating and can be followed on an internet site when the system is totally signed off. The internet site will show current generated power; weekly generated, and total generated kilowatts. We are evaluating alternate energy (solar and wind) at all our locations, currently the energy Boise uses is mostly hydropower, another green energy.
Dean
Comment by Valorie — October 9, 2007 @ 4:56 pm