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Mr Dennis Garde

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RE: Solar Noon Tuesday - Grid Defection, is it time to disconnect from the electrical grid?

Posted By Dennis Garde 06-19-2026 10:45 AM
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Thanks William, You're right, it is difficult to explain transformer details / principles without classroom & teacher tools. However, you succeeded. The images below are of a single phase META, pole transformer manufactured in Florida, and the specs. Following your description, the primary side / utlity ...

RE: Solar Noon Tuesday - Grid Defection, is it time to disconnect from the electrical grid?

Posted By Dennis Garde 06-18-2026 10:29 AM
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William, Your depth of knowledge is appreciated and enlightening. I'm also a regular attendee of Jay's "Solar Noon" series and have heard the banter regarding utility transformers. In Jay's defense, his stated point last Tuesday, regardeing the capacity of utility transformers for accepting back feed ...

RE: balcony solar (aka plug in solar) interview on Living on Earth

Posted By Dennis Garde 10-29-2025 07:28 AM
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Hello Colleagues, This concept is as old as the existence of the PV panel; and, as simple as adding a few deep cycle batteries and inverter to the kit. My son lives in Savannah, GA where storms regularly take out utility power. His portable set-up can keep the fridge in operation, power occasional laundry, ...

RE: Solar Incentives under Threat Update

Posted By Dennis Garde 05-21-2025 01:10 PM
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Steve, You are correct but these are not ordinary times. Churches are non-profit as well. Yet Christian Nationalism is fast becoming the most dangerous 'ism' of the 21st century. I ask again, what are we afraid of? Seems to me we are in danger of losing the Republic, so 501c status and rules are less ...

RE: Solar Incentives under Threat Update

Posted By Dennis Garde 05-21-2025 12:06 PM
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Mr Fitch, You have a way of squeezing more juice out of the dry quince, more so than most. The French consider this a compliment by the way. And the French live to debate politics. The political calculus that makes your analysis correct is FEAR - fear of a verbal challenge, fear of being humiliated, ...

RE: Solar Incentives under Threat Update

Posted By Dennis Garde 05-19-2025 01:05 PM
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Ella, and Members who heed this warning. I have a fundamental gripe with this sort of blanket, hair-on-fire, contact your representative approach to trying to influence congress. It is a half-truth to pretend that a general pleading to every legislator has the same impact - thus it is also a half-lie ...

Solar Noon Tuesday - Using Open Solar, free online design tool Attachments

Posted By Dennis Garde 03-06-2025 01:57 PM
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RE: Solar Noon Tuesday - Using Open Solar, free online design tool

Posted By Dennis Garde 03-06-2025 01:57 PM
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Colleagues,And thanks Jay for all you do.A recent Tuesday evolved into a conversation regarding the selection of competent contractors. Coming from the architectural profession I take the approach of pre-qualifying competent bidders based upon their initial proposals, then writing a scope of work that ...

RE: Jimmy Carter's environmental legacy set the foundation for today's climate action

Posted By Dennis Garde 01-11-2025 09:35 AM
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ASES Colleagues, This is another report / link describing the Carter solar panels as well as his larger role in renewable energy policy foundations. https://www.ecowatch.com/jimmy-carter-environmental-legacy.html Cheers, Dennis Garde, AIA, LEED APTurkey mobile +90.536.910.15.69US mobile: +1.847.624.1983 ...

RE: Solar thermal for residential

Posted By Dennis Garde 01-02-2025 12:01 PM
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Keith, you have offered the best advice thus far. Recommendations cannot be offered until more is known about the existing structure / site / mechanical systems. May I suggest that we include this topic and this specific residence in the Tuesday ASES webinar. 30 minutes of group Q&A could be very valuable ...

RE: Jimmy Carter's environmental legacy set the foundation for today's climate action

Posted By Dennis Garde 12-31-2024 03:35 PM
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Happy New Year ASES Members. No apologies for this political commentary injected into the admiring eulogy, very deserving by the way, for James Earl Carter. His legislation during the energy crisis focused mostly on passive energy solutions; but, it also set the political stage for later legislation ...

RE: Solar Oversupply?

Posted By Dennis Garde 12-09-2024 12:21 PM
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Just read the full article referenced in the post. What's the problem again? What has occured in Australia was and remains completely predicable and solvable. The past couple decades of legislative incentives has brought about the current conditions. An abundance of solar energy is a good thing. The ...

RE: Trump/Musk Alliance

Posted By Dennis Garde 11-12-2024 09:38 AM
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I am not ready to turn over government control to the "billionaire class." Musk is not an engineer, not an inventor, nor artist. He has no experience in government and that is much more important than most voters understand it to be. He is rightly called an entrepeneur who surrounds himself with competent ...

RE: best deal for PV energy going to the grid in northeast ohio ?

Posted By Dennis Garde 06-19-2024 06:38 AM
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Mike, William, & Ken, A collective thanks for the details and the explanations. Good Copy... The bottom line is that every utility, perhaps a hundred plus across the country, have their own contracts relative to grid-tide renewables - so buyer beware. Thanks due as well to this forum for existing as ...

RE: best deal for PV energy going to the grid in northeast ohio ?

Posted By Dennis Garde 06-18-2024 04:18 PM
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Mike,Thanks for sharing the utility statement. As William suggests the graphics are interesting. The line item on the statement, what is the "Bank?" How does it work? Does it zero out? Do you risk losing it?Thanks -- Dennis Garde, AIA, LEED APTurkey mobile +90.505.186.27.85O&M Transition Coordinator, ...

RE: best deal for PV energy going to the grid in northeast ohio ?

Posted By Dennis Garde 06-14-2024 07:15 AM
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Ken, Thank you for the clarification. Understood - and of course these meters are sophisticated enough to read the kWh in both directions. But does it matter? Unless the Utility is converting the kWh into dollars (low rate credits v high rate usage) the delta is still acceptable to the overproducing ...

RE: best deal for PV energy going to the grid in northeast ohio ?

Posted By Dennis Garde 06-13-2024 03:09 PM
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Colleagues,I am perplexed with the concern regarding disparity between the cost and credit of kWh when your facility is consuming more than your PV System is producing. My understanding of Net Metering may be antiquated so please correct me if I am wrong. The reality is the kWh produced are deducted ...

New Embassy Compound - Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Posted By Dennis Garde 06-08-2024 08:51 AM
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Colleagues, my current work involves bringing a new US Embassy online in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Pertinent to ASES members, the project includes extensive photo-voltaics and a good deal of solar thermal for domestic hot water. The project is going for LEED Silver and may achieve Gold. The dedication and ...

World Population - 8 Billion Cannot be Ignored

Posted By Dennis Garde 12-24-2022 06:20 AM
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I will add this bit of serious trivia regarding our global condition for your consideration and year-end reflections. The world population has reached 8 billion. Only one decade ago in 2010 the population was 7 billion. It is frightening to imagine where we will be in another decade or two? Some say ...

RE: Accountant specializing in community solar

Posted By Dennis Garde 12-24-2022 02:13 AM
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Hello Ella, This is not a direct answer to your question; but, rather some advice to pass along to the inquirer and anyone else who may be befuddled by the accounting and tax incentives of solar. Most of our readers who participate in this ASES Forum probably know of the website Database of State Incentives ...