Archive for August, 2011
Colorado Trip
August 30, 2011Residential Window Wall
August 29, 2011
Glickenhaus House window wall design: Salvador Behar Architects, S. Behar, J. Dayton
Baseball
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.
horsing around with Andy
Arcade in Santa Barbara
August 26, 2011
Sketch Plan for Sloping Site
August 25, 2011
sketch: Salvador Behar Architects
DR 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, 2011
Weekend Links
August 18, 2011
NYC
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.
