A newly completed commercial solar installation on a Washington County, MD, farm will generate more electrical power annually than five average homes use in 12 months. Incorporating 186 Panasonic 330-watt HIT® modules, six SolarEdge inverters and 186 SolarEdge optimizers, this best of class system is rated at 61.4 kilowatts (DC) and is expected to produce more than 85,000 kilowatt-hours…
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Don't let power outages ground your business
You may not have heard what caused last week’s Delta Airlines computer shutdown that grounded 15,000 flights and stranded hundreds of thousands of travelers worldwide for more than 24 hours. It was a local power outage in the part of Atlanta where Delta is headquartered. There’s a lesson for businesses of all sizes in…
There's no telling when the power will go out – or why
Power outages can happen at the worst times and for the strangest reasons. Take the morning of Friday, September 20, when the new iPhone5 was set to go on sale. It was minutes before 8 AM in Bethesda, MD. A line of customers, eager to buy, stretched from the door of the Apple store all…
A squirrel leaves downtown Lynchburg powerless
Yesterday morning, a squirrel knocked out electrical power along Main, Commerce and Twelve Streets in Lynchburg, VA. According to WSET-TV, some 1,159 Appalachian Power customers – not just homes, but also downtown businesses – were without electricity for hours. Even downtown traffic lights were knocked out. Lots of things can cause outages – high winds…
Not just for Virginia homes
The Roanoke Times reports that starting a few weeks from now, a solar array will provide the Salem, Virginia, Veteran Affairs Medical Center with 1,620 kilowatts of free electricity – about 10% of their power needs. Another VA hospital, in Alexandria, has a 1,995 kilowatt solar system under construction. The Norfolk Naval Station gets 2100…