A solar panel project at Mount Olivet Lutheran Church of Plymouth was completed and interconnected to Xcel’s grid on March 9, 2026. This system consists of 330, 415W DC panels (136.95 kWp) and two 50kWAC 3 phase SolarEdge inverters. The system is projected to supply 76% of the church building’s annual electrical load and is […]
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The National Solar Tour is October 3 – 5 and we will be hosting in-person visits as part of the Minnesota Sustainability Tour. With installation of our Mitsubishi Hiper-Heat cold climate air source heat pump (ccASHP) in January 2024, we are essentially fully electified for all home energy uses. What this means is we no
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On June 24 I joined a group of Climate Reality – Central Minnesota Chapter members on a tour of the Xcel Energy Sherco Solar Project. When completed, Sherco 1, 2 and 3 will form one of the largest solar power plants in the United States at 710MWac nameplate generation capacity covering 4680 acres (7.3 sq
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On Sunday, April 27 the MOPLY community will celebrate Earth Day with a Vegan/Vegetarian Lunch, Eco Fair, and Electric Vehicle car show. Details are at https://www.moply.org/solar-at-mo. The headline news is that the church is having a large solar panel system installed on the roof. This system will have a 123 kW nameplate capacity and will
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I am on several Sierra Club North Star chapter mailing lists and recently got an invite to a Degrowth Team meeting. The meeting invite included a link to an article for shared reading by Christopher Marquis, published on the Harvard Business Review and titled, In Defense of Degrowth. I saved a copy of the article
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A few months ago, the idea of an alternative reality occurred to me: What if our personal contribution of green house gasses from driving a car was confined to our own share of the global atmosphere? This is not how the world works, of course. Every time we burn a fossil fuel, the CO2 produced
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I was asked to be a guest on a locally produced podcast, along with Phil Adam, another inveterate EV communicator and educator. The Ikonokast podcast has a science advocacy theme, so a discussion of electric vehicles, about which there is a lot of unscientific false information going around, is a good fit. The hosts are
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