הפודקאסטים הטובים ביותר ב-Solar Energy (2023)

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Hydrogen RC race cars at RE+ with Max Accordino 43:24

6h ago43:24

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If you were walking around RE+ in Vegas, you may have noticed a track and all of these remote control race cars and wondered what that was about. That was the Horizon Hydrogen Grand Prix Pro (H2GP Pro)! Here is what we talked about: Horizon Hydrogen Grand Prix Pro = H2GP ProSTEM kitsSTEAM Science Technology Engineering Art MathRE+ Las Vegas Remote …

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Vehicle to Grid (V2G & V2X) David Slutzky Fermata Energy Founder and Chairman of the Board 56:25

11d ago56:25

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Learn about bidirectional EV charging/discharging with former White House and EPA policy advisor Clinton Administration, former County Supervisor in Virginia, Faculty at University of Virginia 23 years, Commerce, Architecture, Engineering who has a Philosophy degree and is an entrepreneur who started multiple companies. David Slutzky started Fermat…

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Terence Parker gets surprised by Johnny Weiss, Solar PV History! 1:12:09

23d ago1:12:09

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This podcast is full of solar history, so we give a shout out to the solar historians 100 and 1000 years from now!! Hey people who have not been born yet! Check us out!! Terence and Johnny have been doing solar PV since the 1980s and have known each other since the early days. Terence tells the story how he was on a small airplane in the South Paci…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Lithium-Ion Battery Silicon Anodes with Matt Kappers CEO The Coretec Group 34:15

1M ago34:15

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Matthew Kappers is the CEO of The Coretec Group. The Coretec Group is known for their expertise in silicon nanoparticles to push the boundaries of silicon engineering and battery development. They are using their main expertise to develop an anode with a high concentration of silicon that will significantly boost the performance of lithium-ion batt…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Martin Pochtaruk CEO of Heliene Solar Manufacturer in US and Canada 36:31

2M ago36:31

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Learn how solar is manufactured right here in the USA with a long time CEO of a US (Minnesota) and Canada (Ontario) solar manufacturer. Heliene Solar started up in 2010 and is still growing, especially with the Inflation Reduction Act climate. In this podcast Martin Pochtaruk takes us down an assembly line so you can learn from start to finish how …

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Energy Storage Systems (ESS) and the NEC with Bill Brooks and Sean White Part 2 44:27

2M ago44:27

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In this podcast we have Bill Brooks talking energy storage system (ESS) Codes, with emphasis on the National Electrical Code (NEC). Be sure to get Sean and Bill’s latest book, which is the 3rd edition of PV and the NEC, based on the 2023 NEC. To find where to get different versions of the NEC including the 2023 NEC for free check out the NEC tab at…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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David Bliss, CEO of Faraday Microgrids 39:33

3M ago39:33

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David Bliss is the CEO/Founder of Faraday Microgrids. Besides being a renewable energy CEO, David Bliss also has a medical degree and is a qualified General Surgeon and Licensed California Pediatric Surgeon. There are many people in the renewable industry with a wide variety of skills! Faraday Microgrids is a licensed general contracting company. S…

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Podcast Episode 100! What Brings Us Together 18:45

3M ago18:45

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There are so many reasons to go solar and so many people with different opinions of why. Rather than arguing about why everyone needs to go solar, let's get together, as humans and install more solar and storage! Forgetting about our differences and working together on this project, is what will have the greatest effect. Instead of letting politics…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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ASES Conference: Sean White on Clean Power Hour Podcast with Tim Montegue and John Weaver at the American Solar Energy Society Conference in Boulder Colorado 52:22

3M ago52:22

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Sean White was the guest on the Clean Power Hour podcast at the American Solar Energy Society in Boulder Colorado on August 10, 2023. We are reposting this podcasst, which you can also listen to on Tim Montegue's awesome Clean Power Hour podcast, which you can find at www.cleanpowerhour.com The main topic we discussed was, "Can renewables replace f…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Virtual Power Plants (VPP) and Energy Storage Systems (ESS) with Geoff Ferrell, Senior Vice President of Sonnen Inc 49:07

4M ago49:07

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Geoff Ferrell is the Senior Vice President of VPP and C&I Projects Business at Sonnen Inc. He also worked as a Chief Technology Officer in Mandalay Homes at Arizona. As the former Chief Technology Officer of Mandalay Homes, Geoff Ferrell was a leader in the development of technology in the construction industry and a specialist in building science.…

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Energy Storage Systems (ESS) and the NEC with Bill Brooks and Sean White Part 1 37:04

4M ago37:04

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In this podcast we have Bill Brooks talking energy storage system (ESS) Codes, including the NEC, IFC, IBC, IRC, IEC, but mostly the NEC. Be sure to get Sean and Bill’s latest book, which is the 3rd edition of PV and the NEC, based on the 2023 NEC. To find where to get different versions of the NEC including the 2023 NEC for free check out the NEC …

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NEC Article 690 Part IV Wiring Methods & Materials from PV and the NEC 3rd Edition book by Sean White and Bill Brooks 1:16:15

5M ago1:16:15

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Buy this book here:https://www.amazon.com/PV-NEC-Sean-White/dp/100318099X This long podcast is a reading of chapter 5 of the book, which covers NEC Article 690 Part IV of the 2023 NEC. Every 3 years when the NEC comes out, it is a tradition for me to read and post a poetry reading of Article 690 Photovoltaic Systems. I have already posted parts I t…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Rod Matthews of Brevian Energy on Microgrids 26:59

5M ago26:59

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Rod Matthews specializes in commercial and industrial (C&I) scale micro-grids and we get into the details of what a microgrid is and how they can benefit customers. Some of the topics we cover include: Microgrid definitions (NREL and NEC, which are different). Minigrid definition (never connected to the grid) Time-of-Use (TOU) Rates up to $0.74/kWh…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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World’s Largest Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) 11:22

6M ago11:22

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There are many ways to define the largest BESS and since the industry is growing so excitingly fast, it is difficult to explain exactly which is the largest. We are going to talk about 7 big ones here: 1. Vistra: Moss Landing California US 2021 400MW/1600MWh2. Crimson Storage: Blythe California US 2022 350MW/1400MWh3. Manatee: Florida US 2021 (larg…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Lithium-Ion Battery Chemistries 26:37

6M ago26:37

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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 included in the course. In this podcast, we will go over different battery chemistries, focusing on the three main types of lithium-ion batteries used …

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Jeffrey Max, CEO of Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., Serial tech entrepreneur and investor 42:34

7M ago42:34

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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 entrepreneur and investor. In over 30 years he has founded, built and incubated different global companies with multiple exits in financial services, payments…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Microgrids 15:30

8M ago15:30

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"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 NEC has renamed AC Coupling and DC Coupling to be AC Interconnected and DC Interconnected. Have fun and listen and by the way, go to www.solarSEAN.com a…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Herve Billiet, Co-founder and CEO, Ipsun Solar and Ipsun Sunvoy 42:10

8M ago42:10

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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 transportation initiatives. He went on to design his first residential solar PV system in 2009 using the 2008 National Electrical Code. Herve is from Eu…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Climate Change Activism Coupling (CCA-coupling) 4:00

8M ago4:00

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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 of other issues that are not directly about solving the CO2 crisis. Human rights, sexual rights, indigenous rights and economic injustice are all very im…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Bill Brooks Talks PV IV Curves 14:24

9M ago14:24

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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 Power Point (MPP), Light Emitting Diodes (LED) in reverse is a solar cell or aka photo diode and if you put power into a solar cell it makes invisible lig…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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2023 NEC Article 690 PV Systems Part 3 Disconnecting Means can be fun! 13:45

11M ago13:45

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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 disconnecting solar circuits. To learn more, go to www.solarSEAN.com or www.HeatSpring.com/sean Sean White teaches in-person and on-demand online solar and storage c…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Egypt COP27 10:41

1y ago10:41

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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 other organizations are the parties. Sometimes I look at what our countries are doing and it is like we are having a big fossil fuel party! It is literally…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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2021 International Residential Code (IRC) and Energy Storage Systems (ESS) with Bill Brooks (BB) 27:44

1y ago27:44

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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 living space, SolSmart.org PV, Future SolSmart ESS material Bill is developing, 2024 IRC Proposals, lithium-ion not good on the outside of a house in …

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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2018 International Fire Code (IFC) for Energy Storage Systems (ESS) with Bill Brooks and related topics 34:08

1y ago34:08

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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 state to see which version is adopted. At the time I am writing this, the 2018 IFC is the most widely used version, although the 2021 IFC has already been …

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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2023 NEC Poetry Reading Article 690 Part 2 Circuit Requirements 37:04

1y ago37:04

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The 2023 NEC has been released and it is time to see how voltage, current and rapid shutdown look in the future! 2023 690 Part 2 includes: 690.7 Voltage690.8 Current690.9 OCPD690.11 DC Arc Fault Protection690.12 Rapid Shutdown Reading the NEC can be heavy stuff, so if you do not get it the first time around, try listening to it backwards synced wit…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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UL 3741 Rapid Shutdown solution where the PV array can stay up to 1000V using SMA inverters with Sollega or Ironridge racks! 13:36

1y ago13:36

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Rapid Shutdown has traditionally meant putting module level power electronics in the array for PV systems on buildings. There has always been this part of the NEC 690.12(B)(2)(1) that gave you an option to comply with rapid shutdown inside the array with a listed hazard control system. Surprisingly, we can now go back to having something to what ra…

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Radio 690! 2023 NEC 690 PV Systems Part 1 22:34

1y ago22:34

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Every time the NEC comes out, I do a reading of my favorite NEC articles. I like to think of it as sort of a poetry reading, since I will try to make it as least dry (wet) as possible. This time I am going to give some commentary, so it is up to you to figure out what is Code and what is me interpreting and making Code fun by understanding the tone…

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Sean Gets interviewed on the Clean Power Hour Podcast 46:38

1+ y ago46:38

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This is a re-posting of a podcast where Sean White is interviewed by Tim Montegue on the Clean Power Hour Podcast. If you have not already, be sure to save the Clean Power Hour podcast to your favorites. Tim is very active and has all kinds of experts on his podcast, including Jigar Shaw of the Department of Energy (Episode 83). I was honored to be…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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2023 NEC preview with Bill Brooks at Intersolar 2022 Part 3 10:33

1+ y ago10:33

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Some of the areas of the NEC that we cover in this podcast are: NEC Article 702 Optional Standby Systems, Load Control, Disconnecting Means, UL 1741 for Power Control Systems, 706.15 Location Control for 1 and 2-family Dwellings Quotes: Bill Brooks (soon to be famous quotes). “Tesla, Enphase, SolarEdge, are all getting listed as energy management s…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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2023 NEC preview with Bill Brooks at Intersolar 2022 Part 2 16:41

1+ y ago16:41

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Some of the areas of the NEC that we cover in this podcast are: Ground Fault Protection, Ground Fault Detection and interruption (GFDI) term clarified (not to be confused with GFCI), 690.45 Equipment Grounding Conductors (EGC) includes DC and AC not having to increase size of EGC when upsizing current carrying conductor for voltage drop (now also a…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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2023 NEC preview with Bill Brooks at Intersolar 2022 Part 1 26:03

1+ y ago26:03

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Bill Brooks is instrumental in the process of coming up with material for the NEC for renewable energy systems, especially for solar, energy storage and interconnections. Although the 2023 NEC has not been finalized or published, this is as good of a preview as you can get for knowing what the future will bring. Many manufacturers, engineers, CEOs …

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Keith Cronin: Solar MBA instructor on HeatSpring! 1:03:01

1+ y ago1:03:01

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Keith Cronin: Solar MBA instructor on HeatSpring! Keith sold his Hawaii solar company Island Energy Solutions to Jigar Shaw of SunEdison in 2007 after knowing Jigar since 2002. Keith has been teaching his Solar MBA class for just over a decade with co-instructor and attorney Chris Lord. They have taught many students, including oil and gas refugees…

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Pre-Celebrating 1TW of PV installed in 2022 13:48

2y ago13:48

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Welcome to 2022, the year of the Terawatt! That's right, this year will cross the trillion watt mark! 2022 will be remembered as the year that humanity reached the magic number of 1 trillion watts, aka 1 terawatt or 1TW of solar installed since the beginning of time. We do not have to take into consideration the amount of solar taken out of service…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Net-metering, bypass diodes, solar & storage and NEC Article 480 vs. Article 706 Q&As 19:31

2y ago19:31

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In this question we have the following questions and answers: 1. Net metering: Why it is different in different places whether or not you can and should feed energy back to the grid when you have an excess. 2. How bypass diodes work and also with half-cell PV modules. 3. Why solar goes so well with energy storage systems (ESS). 4. National Electric…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Deep dive on Energy Storage and Renewables: Sean White Interview on Cory Vanderpool’s “Solar Broadcast” podcast. 44:22

2y ago44:22

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Sean White (solarSEAN.com) is interviewed on his former student Cory Vanderpool's podcast. The talk about various subjects including: Solar and wind are finally cheapest forms of electricity EVs bringing down the cost of lithium-ion Energy Storage Systems (ESS) Battery benefits including being a load, besides being a source of power Wind power’s cu…

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Grounding, Microhydro Hybrid Systems, Batteries & Mono vs. Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cells 29:32

2y ago29:32

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In this podcast we answer 2 questions: 1) Grounding is important and can be confusing with many different theories of how and why it should be done. Here we are going to talk about the basics, including the neutral (grounded conductor), the equipment grounding conductor (EGC) and the grounding electrode conductor (GEC). We will even make a mention …

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EV to home, Recycling Lithium Batteries & 30% Efficient PV questions answered 19:14

2y ago19:14

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This podcast answers 3 questions on solar and storage. 1) EV to home can mean EV to grid and EV to backup. Ford has announced that their F-150 Lightning Electric Pickup will be released next year and will have the ability to backup a house. What does that mean? Will it be able to work with a PV system and keep the battery charged or will it only wo…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Energy Storage, PV & NEC Workshop at the ASES Conference August 2021 1:36:34

2y ago1:36:34

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This is an audio version of the workshop that Sean White taught at the ASES conference at the University of Colorado Boulder on August 6, 2021. To see a video version, go to www.solarSEAN.com for a link to Sean's YouTube channel or find some of this material in Sean's classes at www.HeatSpring.com/sean You can also find most of the material form Se…

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ASES Solar 2021: Solar PV Intensive Workshop with Sean White 1:08:49

2y ago1:08:49

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This podcast is a recording of a workshop Sean taught at the ASES Solar 2021 Conference at the University of Colorado Boulder on August 6, 2021. This Solar PV Intensive Workshop was fast paced and covered a lot of information. This workshop was in a way covering the same material Sean covers in his Solar PV Boot Camps, which are often 40 hours long…

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Backfeeding the grid Hawaiian Style with Customer Grid-Supply Plus, which is the future 11:38

2y ago11:38

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Hawaii has more solar PV per capita than any other state. Since PV is the least expensive energy in the world now, this concentration of PV will soon hit other states and Hawaii is paving the way with new policies that will be able to deal with this abundance of noontime energy. California, which has a lot more people and by for more solar than any…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Latitude’s Effect on Solar Resource, Cheap Electricity and PV, Battery Equalization and then Bill Brooks talks about the NFPA 855 Energy Storage Standard 23:51

2y ago23:51

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In this podcast, Sean answers 3 questions and then we finish it off with some wise words from Bill Brooks where Bill and Sean discus the purpose of NFPA 855 Standard For The Installation Of Stationary Energy Storage Systems. To find out more about solar and energy storage or classes with Sean White and Bill Brooks, go to www.solarSEAN.com…

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Net-Metering Sustainability, PV Wire Sizing and East vs. West Facing PV 18:12

2+ y ago18:12

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In this podcast, Sean answers questions about net-metering sustainability, with examples from the most mature PV markets in the US, Hawaii and California and how energy storage solves problems when intermittent renewables are on the grid. There were some changes in the 2017 NEC, where the requirement to have a temperature adder with conduit in sunl…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Grounded vs. Ungrounded Inverters, Battery Combiner Boxes and Community Solar 21:19

2+ y ago21:19

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In this podcast we once again cover questions from you and those like you by popular demand. We will get into the different terminology and how it changed in different versions of the NEC, when we talk about ungrounded, grounded and functionally grounded inverters. We talk about the correct terminology for combining batteries in parallel and differ…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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Solar PV Seasonal Tilt, 60 & 72-cell PV Modules, Net-Metering with Energy Storage Q&A Podcast 23:11

2+ y ago23:11

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In this episode, we cover tilting PV modules, and seasonal tilting, why most PV modules at 60 cell and 72 cell modules, net-metering and energy storage. To find out more about solar and energy storage or to ace any NABCEP exam, go to solarSEAN.comעל ידי whitehousesolar

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Q&A: NABCEP NEC adoption, Higher Power PV modules & Solar Manufacturers Going out of Business 11:16

2+ y ago11:16

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In this podcast, we are going answer questions related to solar and energy storage. The first question is about NABCEP and how they are going about adopting the latest version of the NEC. The next question is about higher power PV modules and are they bigger and more dangerous to install. The last question is about how to deal with and what to do a…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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New UL PV Listing 61730 replacing UL 1703 for making the test work around the world and UL 3741 listing for Rapid Shutdown (Hazard Control Systems) with Bill Brooks PE 14:53

2+ y ago14:53

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In this podcast we talk about the new UL standard for PV, which replaces UL 1703 for PV with UL 61730, which took place in December of 2020. You can still use UL 1703, just if you come out with a new module design, it needs to comply with UL 61730, which makes things easier, since it is the same test around the world, instead of having a different …

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International Fire Code (IFC) and Energy Storage Systems (ESS) with Bill Brooks 8:57

2+ y ago8:57

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In this podcast we cover the requirements of the International Fire Code and Energy Storage Systems and sizes of these Energy Storage Systems in the International Fire Code. There are special size requirements as we will learn soon. We were primarily covering the 2018 IFC, the 2021 IFC does not come out yet as of this podcast and even when it does …

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2021 International Residential Code (IRC) and more with Bill Brooks 18:51

2+ y ago18:51

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In this podcast we cover the 2021 IRC has not been published yet and which Bill is helping write. We also discuss the relationship with the International Fire Code (IFC) and the International Building Code (IBC). The IRC, IBC and IFC are published by the International Code Council (ICC). Some of the subjects we cover are vehicle impact protection f…

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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International Residential Code (IRC) and Energy Storage Systems (ESS) with Bill Brooks 30:02

2+ y ago30:02

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In this podcast Bill Brooks covers the International Residential Code from the International Code Council (ICC), which are rules in addition to the NEC for installing ESSs in 1- and 2-family dwellings. Bill Brooks is instrumental in writing the material that we cover and sits on many different panels, such as the UL 9540 standards technical panel, …

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Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

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BIPV and Tesla Solar Glass with Bill Brooks 6:18

2+ y ago6:18

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Building Integrated PV (BIPV) has been around forever as far as the solar industry is concerned (4 or 5 decades). It has never taken off like people think. There has always been a lot of hype around BIPV, especially amongst laypeople. Will Tesla change BIPV forever? I would think not, except I will never underestimate a guy that turned a small EV c…

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