Articles by
Paul Gipe
Ecovision’s Stuttgart School Solar PV Funds
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Paul Gipe
Ecovision, a developer of solar investment funds in Freiburg, created an investment vehicle to install solar PV systems on the roof tops of several schools in Stuttgart.
Links to Real Time Solar Generation
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Paul Gipe
The following are links to web pages that log real time performance of solar PV systems.
Rate of Return Calculation of Solar PV Using @IRATE Function
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Paul Gipe
My thanks to Simon Boone of Generation Solar Renewable Energy Systems for calling my attention to a simple spreadsheet function for calculating the rate of return.
Solar Radiation & Yields on Tilted Surface
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Paul Gipe
The following table gives the typical yields (kWh/kW/year) that can be expected at various locations mostly in North America.
The Aachen Solar Tariff Model
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Paul Gipe
In the early 1990s the city of Aachen (Aix-en-Chapelle) Germany set the world of solar energy on its ear. Until that time development of solar PV depended entirely on direct and substantial subsidies.
Freiburg’s Solar Siedlung (Settlement)
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Paul Gipe
Craig Morris, author of Energy Switch, recently gave me a whirlwind tour of the Solar Siedlung in Freiburg, Germany. The ... Read more
German Solar PV for Free Says Walter Fischer
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Paul Gipe
Protecting creation. Lutheran church with a roof top of solar PV in the village of Schönau, Baden-Württemberg. In Germany, ... Read more
Gore Calls for Renewable Energy Tariffs
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Paul Gipe
Gore Calls for National Renewable Energy Tariffs in Congressional Testimony In testimony before the Senate Environment and Public ... Read more
Germany Installed 1,150 MW of Photovoltaics in 2006 Says Magazine
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Paul Gipe
Photon magazine is reporting that 1,150 MW of solar photovoltaics were installed in Germany in 2006. If confirmed this another world record for the German solar industry and the first time that annual installations in any one country exceeded the gigawatt level.
Germany Installed 1,150 MW of Photovoltaics in 2006 Says Magazine
By
Paul Gipe
Photon magazine is reporting that 1,150 MW of solar photovoltaics were installed in Germany in 2006. If confirmed this ... Read more
