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Episode 95
Sean is recording this podcast from Australia where he is about to teach a utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) course for CPD International. This is some of the material that will be …
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Jeffrey Max, CEO of Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., Serial tech entrepreneur and investor
Episode 93
Jeffrey Max is the CEO of Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. otherwise known on the stock market ticker as ASTI. Jeff is a turnaround CEO and we're going to find out what that means, Serial tech entrepr…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Microgrids
Episode 91
"Microgrid" is a term that is thrown around a lot and a lot of people using this term are not using it as it is defined in the NEC. The 2023 NEC has a few new microgrid terms. Additionally the 2023 N…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Herve Billiet, Co-founder and CEO, Ipsun Solar and Ipsun Sunvoy
Episode 92
Herve Billiet is an electro-mechanical engineer who co-designed the first Belgian solar car way back when he was 21 years old. Soon after, he was invited by MIT in Boston to advance its sustainable t…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Climate Change Activism Coupling (CCA-coupling)
Episode 90
At the COP 27 conference there was a lot of talk about other issues besides climate change, which I thought was interesting. Here were my notes:
I find it interesting at COP27 that there are a lot …
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Bill Brooks Talks PV IV Curves
Episode 89
In this podcast Bill gets down to the basics talking about PV IV curves, Short Circuit Current (Isc), Maximum Power Current (Imp), Open Circuit Voltage (Voc), Maximum Power Voltage (Vmp), Maximum Pow…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
2023 NEC Article 690 PV Systems Part 3 Disconnecting Means can be fun!
Episode 88
We take something that can be boring and run it through the Sean White "boring-to-exciting converter" and out comes something sounding fun!
In this podcast we go over different ways of disconnectin…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Egypt COP27
Episode 87
This podcast was recorded at the COP27 climate conference in Sharm El Sheikh Egypt on November 16 2022.
COP stands for something boring, Conference of the Parties, which means that countries and o…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
2021 International Residential Code (IRC) and Energy Storage Systems (ESS) with Bill Brooks (BB)
Episode 86
2021 IRC requirements for ESS units to be less than 20kWh, 3-foot separation between ESS units, exceptions due to large-scale fire testing (UL 9540A), distance of ESS from garage window vs. window of…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
2018 International Fire Code (IFC) for Energy Storage Systems (ESS) with Bill Brooks and related topics
Episode 85
This video is based on the 2018 IFC and there are many places that are using the 2018 IFC, in fact I just taught an ESS class to inspectors based on the 2015 IFC. You will have to check your own sta…
Published on 3 years, 2 months ago