Archive for August, 2010

Early Adopters of the New Micro Inverters

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

If you’ve been keeping up, you’ll know that Ardenham Energy have generously agreed to replace our original solar inverter, since the shaded panels were pulling down the performance of the whole array of 16. So in the pouring rain the scaffolding was put up again - amazingly in only about 3 hours.

Then the installers brought […]

Turbine Trip

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

We received an invitation from the energy company Segen to visit a wind turbine that has been installed near us. I was particularly interested to see it and get some practical information, with the idea that perhaps we could have a turbine in the clearing at the top of our wood, if it were on […]

Even in London

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

We were so moved to come across this tiny piece of evidence that greening has its own power - in spite of everything. And reminded of the lines from Yeats:
While I stand on the roadway,

or on the pavements grey,

I hear it in the deep heart’s core.