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What Does an Off-grid System Actually Do?

From on 03.04.2012 in Category Technology with 0 Comments
SMA_Hybridsystem Kolondieba

Dry red earth. The sun is shining. PV modules are gleaming in the light. The PV plant is operating at full capacity. We’re in Mali. An off-grid system was just recently commissioned here in this western African country. And now it’s supplying electric current to private homes, a school, several workshops, a hotel, and a number of businesses. Building an off-grid energy system like this one requires a reliable inverter that can create and manage a power distribution grid. And ours is called the Sunny Island. It provides a means to supply electricity to under-developed areas or even closer to home in a remote cottage in the German Alps using renewable energy.

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Hollywood A-listers join the solar revolution

From Sian Younis (guest post) on 16.02.2012 in Category Energy Transition with 2 Comments
Hollywood Hills, Source: Alexander Hauk

Over recent years, it appears that many celebrities are jumping on the eco-bandwagon. As going green becomes more chic, celebrities are embracing solar energy, installing it in their homes (or islands, if you are Johnny Depp … more on that later!) and then shouting about it from their solar panelled rooftops.

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