Thought on this approach? [RE-wrenches]

Tom Elliot, Guffey Energy Works telliot at wagonmaker.com
Fri Dec 15 10:25:18 PST 2006


Thanks Michael, that's good to know.  But if it is still really vaporware 
and they don't have a stable and tested product it seems a bit early to be 
lining up internet sales people and trying to push that vapor out the door. 
It might be an interesting concept but it hardly seems market-ready.

It also strikes me that our power supply and our electricity costs are going 
to vary wildly and widely across the country as different areas of the 
country pay the price for their dependence on particular energy sources. 
What might be attractive in Hawaii with 26 cent per KWHr electricity costs 
won't be very attractive in the NW with cheap hydro.

Tom


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Welch" <michael.welch at homepower.com>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:14 AM
Subject: RE: Thought on this approach? [RE-wrenches]



Hi Gang. I'm singing a slightly different tune. Still "vaporware," but...

They apparently ARE working quite hard on developing an inverter. They even 
have hired some folks that many of us know, to work on the engineering. (Rob 
Wills is one, a long-time solar bozo that I greatly respect. Part of Rob's 
career was with Advanced Energy, the inverter manufacturer that got absorbed 
by Beacon. I remember when Rob showed up at a SEER fair in Willits with the 
first MPPT controller I'd heard of, all breadboarded out.)

But most important, notice the citizenre concept of installing RE systems 
and financing them based on utility savings. This may very well be the way 
that all of you will be marketing RE systems some day soon. I do not think 
this is something that can be ignored, and I hear is already having some 
success with 30+ KW systems ( http://www.sunedison.com ).

Mark Frye wrote at 08:16 PM 12/13/2006:


>Tom,
>
>See Michael's reply to my post earlier. They have postings on Craigslist
>and Findsolar. To summerize, it's a scam of some sort.  I haven't figure
>it out but they give me the creeps.  It feels like a cross between
>Amway, EST and the mofia.  Be careful.
>
>
>MPF
>
>Tom Elliot wrote:
>>
>> Well, this ought to be interesting.  A sales person for this website
>> http://renu.citizenre.com/index.php showed up in an online community I
>> belong to and is really pushing this stuff.
>>
>> I'd love to know what "micro-inverter" they are using to harvest power
>> from
>> their panels, what the "Advanced Hybrid Controller" is and just how the
>> heck
>> they think they are going to get local installers all lined up to
>> install
>> and maintain this stuff.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>
>
>
>Berkeley Solar Electric Systems
>
>
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