Solar Richmond is lighting the way for communities to take part in a clean energy future that not only repowers homes and businesses but also empowers people. We promote solar power and energy efficiency, provide green job training in solar panel installation, and open doors to employment in secure solar industry jobs. Each of our intensive five-week training sessions includes two installations of full solar-electric systems on low-income Richmond residences. Weve already come a long way. Recently, we convinced the City of Richmond to pass a solar thermal rebate program linked to local green jobs a groundbreaking first nationwide! As our eighth solar training wraps up, we have placed more than ten of our graduates in temporary solar jobs and 21 graduates in well-paying, full-time, green-collar positions. Through our solar staffing agency, Solar Richmond has helped install over 700kW solar power throughout the Bay, which amounts to more than a football field of panels and will offset more than 14700 tons of dangerous pollutants from entering our atmosphere. As Solar Richmond grows, we have been blown away by media attention. Van Jones, the visionary leader of the green jobs movement, highlighted us as a national model in his New York Times bestseller, The Green-Collar Economy. With him, we have also been featured in sources as popular as Time Magazine, Dan Rather Reports, NPR, and Oprahs O Magazine. Van and his organization, Green For All, deserve a huge Thank you! for …
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Mppt charge controller. Helps get the maximum power out of your solar panels. It wasn’t cheap but I think it was worth the money in the long run. Also a shot of the amperage being produced from the 3 panels on the roof at 10 AM. I had a morningstar TS-45 pmw controller that I was using for the wind turbines but that seemed to hold back the charging so I switched it out for the MPPT. The turbines aren’t putting enough out to worry about needing a dump load right now so I am now running them directly into the batterys.
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