Looking for an old website....can't seem to find it.

[SkyBum]

I recall a website I used to visit now and then which provided a forum for people who had implemented their own personal solar arrays, yet were unable to navigate all of the red tape associated with selling any excess power back to the utility companies. In the end, they chose to connect to the grid "under the radar" so to speak.

Their trademark was was a photo of a person standing in front of their solar array wearing a ski mask to mask their identity. I would swear the site was renegadepower .com but this domain is no longer associated with the organization I remember. I am having no luck finding it again.

For anyone who is wondering what the hell this is all about, just imagine watching your electrical meter spin backwards as your solar array sends excess power back into the grid....ideally you would be compensated, yet most utilities are very adept at creating roadblocks to the process.

Anyhow, a buddy of mine is considering a business plan which involves solar energy for the masses and this website was a goldmine of information for helping people to find their way through the requisite red tape required to legally sell their excess power back to the utility companies (which is required by law, hence the RED TAPE).

Anyone know what happened to this site? Has it gone out of business or am I remembering the name wrong?

Thanks if you can point me in the right direction,

SB

 

[Jeff7]

Fieldlines.com perhaps?

No ski masked person though.

Just be sure to use an approved grid-tie inverter. If you have a battery backup system and a homemade grid-tie inverter, and the power happens to go out, there's a chance you could wind up pumping power back into an otherwise dead power grid. This is bad news for work crews trying to make repairs to the "dead" power lines.

I figure that the power companies don't like dealing with the trouble of grid-tie inverters, because it means less profit for them. There's also the added expense of making sure that the grid-tie system is properly installed and fully functional, all for what will most likely be a very small amount of power being produced.

 

[SkyBum]

Nope, but thanks for the link anyhow.....

I think I found it, (not certain it was the same but it seems so......)

http://www.homepower.com/magazine/guerrilla.cfm

I found it using a search for "net metering" which led me to the "Guerilla Solar Rogues Gallery" (link above).

Bit of further info linked here:
http://www.utne.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.disp...printable?client.id=utne&story.id=1128