Links

Web resources for energy and communications professionals and our clients

Pacific Energy Company: Our trusted vendor of major componenets for many years.

Foley Communcations Services: Jim Foley also works as our project foreman.

Manufacturers

SOLAR WORLD:A We highly recommend these PV Panels. See our "Practices" page for details.

Direct Power and Water: Manufacturers of our racking products.

Outback Power Systems: Manufacturers of excellent battery inverters and "Balance of System" componenets.

SMA America: German manufacturer of grid-tie inverters.

Xantrex: American designer of Grid-tie and battery inverters.

Blue Sky Energy: Makers of high quality PV charge controllers.

Web Tools

PV Watts: National Renewable Energy Lab's on line energy calculator. We recomend version 1

Sustainable by Design: On line tools for calculating sun angles and solar design paramaters

Net Metering

California Energy Commission Energy Rebate Programs

PG&E's Net Metering Page

Southern California Edison

Solar Tools for the Palm Pilot

RiseSet: A nifty program to compute the rise, transit and set times for the Sun and the Moon on the Palm Pilot.

SunAngle: Another program with different displays that is very handy for the field engineer.

Total Trig: Graphical Trigonometry calculator