Installation details [RE-wrenches]

[Graham Owen]

Matt,

I don’t know anything about the parent company or the politics, or 
stealing water. I just thought there were a lot of interesting pages and 
pictures of a PV installation.  I have nothing to do with this job. If 
you click on "next" at the top of a page there are many more pages to 
check out.  This system does use Sunny Boy's  
http://www.worldwater.com/locke/11-15-2002.htm

Graham


matthew tritt wrote:
> Graham,
> 
> I was to be the California installer for World Water, but somehow got
> by-passed for a larger company of some kind. (I assume that's the Locke
> connection?) It's actually all right with me, as they are reportedly
> involved in "stealing" water from a river in Northern California, for 
> the
> purpose of selling it to Southern California. I've got problems with 
> this.
> (The parent company of World Water is doing this project.
> 
> Their system includes, primarily, an inverter and an in-house designed 
> pump
> control and inter-face with utility power. The advantage to this system 
> is
> that it will run the pump load with PV and/or utility power, and act as 
> a
> net metered inter-connection. The advantage with this design is that it 
> can
> run pumps when the grid is down. I don't see why a Sunny Island and 
> SunnyBoy
> system wouldn't accomplish the same thing.
> John, any thoughts?
> 
> These people are very aggressive marketing-wise, and have some very 
> powerful
> members on their board. They are very active in the third world in
> developing water sources using solar/utility power. I believe that the 
> World
> Bank is somehow involved. Something about all of it concerns me a great
> deal, which is the growing trend to "privatize" water, especially in
> under-developed countries.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Graham Owen" <graham at solarexpert.com>
> To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 9:40 AM
> Subject: Installation details [RE-wrenches]
> 
> 
> > I thought this website link was worth forwarding.  They have many pages
> > of photo's and text detailing their PV current project.
> >
> > http://www.worldwater.com/locke/11-19-2002.htm
> >
> > Graham
> >
> >
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