http://www.lowcarbonproductions.com The latest news on low CO2 communitities Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:07:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.lowcarbonproductions.com/2011/05/solar-panels-blossom-in-new-jersey/#comment-230 solar panels New Jersey Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:07:50 +0000 http://www.lowcarbonproductions.com/?p=389#comment-230 While the special meter will be nice, you don’t need it to claim your SREC and you haven’t lost anything. What’s important to keep is your electric bill, where hopefully there is an accounting of how much power you are sending back to the grid from your panels and how much you are consuming. If there is not, you definitely need to hound them to get the meter in because there’s no accounting of how much power you’ve created. With any sort of accounting on your bill, you will be able to prove you are generating your SRECs and can sell them. I’m surprised PSE&G has taken this long to get back to you. I’d recommend contacting them directly for the status of their meter installation. While the special meter will be nice, you don’t need it to claim your SREC and you haven’t lost anything. What’s important to keep is your electric bill, where hopefully there is an accounting of how much power you are sending back to the grid from your panels and how much you are consuming. If there is not, you definitely need to hound them to get the meter in because there’s no accounting of how much power you’ve created. With any sort of accounting on your bill, you will be able to prove you are generating your SRECs and can sell them. I’m surprised PSE&G has taken this long to get back to you. I’d recommend contacting them directly for the status of their meter installation.

]]> http://www.lowcarbonproductions.com/2011/05/how-do-passive-house-retrofits-actually-perform-in-california/#comment-221 Katy Hollbacher Tue, 10 May 2011 18:47:16 +0000 http://www.lowcarbonproductions.com/?p=393#comment-221 Mary, great post, thank you for taking the time to share this. Long-term performance data is so important to get skeptics past the natural tendency to think the dramatic energy reductions predicted by Passive House are all "rainbows & unicorns". Mary, great post, thank you for taking the time to share this. Long-term performance data is so important to get skeptics past the natural tendency to think the dramatic energy reductions predicted by Passive House are all “rainbows & unicorns”.

]]> http://www.lowcarbonproductions.com/books/recreating-the-american-home/#comment-207 Passive House – Ultra Efficiency • GreenDream Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:40:29 +0000 http://www.lowcarbonproductions.com/blog/?page_id=11#comment-207 [...] Book Alert! – Recreating the American Home: The Passive House Approach (This excellent book will be covered in more detail in a future column.) Spread the [...] [...] Book Alert! – Recreating the American Home: The Passive House Approach (This excellent book will be covered in more detail in a future column.) Spread the [...]

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