Re: [RE-wrenches] Professional conduct

[Todd Cory]

Unfortunately, this seems more and more like the fiasco created by the DHW credits 25 years ago. Sadly, this is what I expected and why I am opposed to incentive programs. Most people have no clue about energy or resource depletion issues. For example, I was contacted by a group that runs the interpretative center at a local I-5 rest stop. They wanted to "put solar" on their building to reduce their power bill. As a part of the design/evaluation, I did a light energy audit of the facility. Their average energy use is 125 kWh a day for a ~800 sq foot building, open 12 hours a day! Everyone thinks we can add a few solar panels to buildings and everything can continue business as usual. It is frustrating to see the same old business as usual happening, while people expect different results. Todd Wind-sun.com wrote: We are seeing far more of this in the past 2-3 years, especially for off grid systems.   It seems like very few of these new startup bandwagon places have even a remote clue as to how to size battery based systems. I would guess that half of our tech support calls come from people that bought systems from someone "cheaper" than us.   A couple days ago a cell phone company that has a few small sites called us about how the sites were all going dead. They sent us a copy of what they bought, and the <unnamed> company based their battery system on the yearly average insolation. DUH!

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