Archive for August, 2011
Colorado Trip
August 30, 2011Residential Window Wall
August 29, 2011Baseball
August 27, 2011* Derek Jeter has tied Mickey Mantle for most games as a New York Yankee. Go to www.jurinko.com for more images of Mantle.
Arcade in Santa Barbara
August 26, 2011Sketch Plan for Sloping Site
August 25, 2011DR Today
August 24, 2011* Will electric vehicles affect demand loads if time of charging is uncontrolled? No.
* Johnson Controls has applied for a patent integrating EVs and buildings for demand response.
* Exide Recycling Material Identification Guide
* Rare earth metals make EVs an un-sustainable transportation solution.
Earthquake
August 23, 2011* Virginia was hit with a 5.9 magnitude earthquake today, equaling the highest magnitude earthquake ever to hit the commonwealth, going back to 1897. The quake was felt here in the Bronx, and a friend in Connecticut reports his building shook.
Single Line Diagrams
August 23, 2011Weekend Links
August 18, 2011NYC
PV
* NYC has three incentives which may be applied to PV projects: a $62,500. property tax abatement, a sales tax exemption, and NYSERDA’s $1.75 / watt rebate funded by the Systems Benefit Charge collected by Con Edison
* Oversupply is the recurring theme in the solar industry.
UNCATEGORIZED
* “Safety” is a crowded trade; Harvard Business Review article on embracing risk.
Demand Response
August 16, 2011* NYSERDA has a program for new construction wherein they provide NYISO-ICAP participating customers $100 per kW of curtailed summer on-peak load or 60% of incremental costs, whichever is less, for on-site DR-dedicated emergency generation, plus $1,500. for a PSC-approved, advanced interval meter. Additional funding is available for the cost for a feasibility study which we can perform, rebated by NYSERDA at a rate of $2./kW of peak load.