Solar Electrical Generation

[kenneyjoe330]

THANK YOU for the good news Mr. Rowlands.  Harnessing the energy from the sun is truly a renewable and natural form of energy.  If the sun doesn't come up in the morning - what good is any kind of energy.  And who controls it's rising and setting and how much $$$$ is involved it that or what government/corporation/group has control of it

[Youngstownshrimp]

Go solar!
Rick, Old buddy just moved into town, solar certified from Calif., even went through the Solindra course.  Conservative but knows the limitations of Solar, and has California know how.   I'd like you to meet him.

[Rick Rowlands]

Yesterday down at the Carrie Furnaces National Historic Landmark in Swissvale, PA I put up the three solar panels that will be powering our new electrical generation system that will run all of the 120VAC lighting at the former blast furnace plant turned heritage center.  Each of the three panels is good for 210 watts, giving us a maximum of 630 watts of generation capacity to charge a bank of twelve deep cycle batteries.  The total battery capacity is 8000 watthours, but if we keep the demand below 600 continuous watts on a sunny day we will not be drawing from the batteries at all. 


We are utilizing as many of the original light fixtures as possible but putting in either CFL or LED bulbs.  We will even have enough capacity to run a small refrigerator which draws 62 watts.






The installer of the Carrie system, Zero Fossil, Inc. of Homestead, PA is also being retained by the Youngstown Steel Heritage Foundation to design and provide to us a similar system for the Tod Engine Heritage Park.   Our roof is is oriented east/west, giving a large southerly exposure at the correct angle so we can mount our panels directly to the roof.