Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

OhmConnect is a virtual power plant (VPP) provider and helps balance the electricity grid. Will incentivize people to reduce usage at certain times. VPP definition of OhmConnect“Collection of 100s or thousands of devices that they are controlling all independently, but coordinating in a fashion that the grid can see it.” Topics covered: SunPower relationship Demand Response Thermostat control TV control Fridge control Looking at VPP as reducing demand rather than increasing supply Getting paid to take stuff offline Rewards Virtual currency Gift cards, prizes Smart plug Grid stability NEM 3.0 Resource adequacy CCAs (Community Choice Aggregation) Blackouts Negative energy DSGS (demand side grid support) Power and energy kWh 705.13 Energy Management Systems Power Control Systems UL 916 FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) Baselines Bitcoin Mining Pacific Gas and Electric Clean Power San Francisco Deregulated Grid ISO = Independent System Operator Leveraging smart meter data Text messages Google, Honeywell, Sinse Grid stability Leveraging new asset (energy usage) Moss Landing ESS DOE report need for 160 GW of storage Curtailing $1 Billion per year of solar energy in CA 4 wheeled ESS Value of discharging devices back into grid 120V Lithium-ion battery assisted induction stove Moduly small stand-alone battery unit www.moduly.io Smarter E Intersolar 2024 Year of the VPP Matt Dusterberg www.OhmConnect.com 100% clean energy for everyone Learn more at www.solarSEAN.com and be sure to get NABCEP certified by taking Sean’s classes at www.HeatSpring.com/Sean

This podcast is a reading from Chapter 6 of PV and the NEC 3rd Edition based on the 2023 NEC by Sean White and Bill Brooks. You can buy the book on Amazon at: https://a.co/d/amFqNko   Bonding and Grounding is something that causes a lot of arguments and this book will get to the bottom of it.    Topics: 690 Part V Bonding and Grounding 690.41 PV System DC Circuit Grounding and Protection   Grounding Electrode Grounding Electrode Conductor (GEC)< Equipment Grounding Conductor (EGC) Ground Grounded Conductor Solidly Grounded Functionally Grounded Ground Fault Ground Fault Detector-Interrupter (GFDI) Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI)   690.42 Point of PV System DC Circuit Grounding Connection 690.43 Equipment Grounding and Bonding   UL 2703 UL 3703   250.97 Bonding for Over 250V to Ground Table 250.122 EGC Based on OCPD 690.45 Size of Equipment Grounding Conductors 690.47 Grounding Electrode System   Additional Electrodes vs. Auxiliary Electrodes   To learn more and get all kinds of free information, go to www.solarSEAN.com

Sean White featured on the Clean Power Hour podcast with Tim Montague's co-host John Weaver on September 28, 2023. We are reposting this podcast, which you can also listen to on Tim Montague's awesome Clean Power Hour podcast, which you can find at www.cleanpowerhour.com Sean White was at the University of Colorado in Denver during this podcast. We had a great time chatting to one another and discussing: 1. The events at the just concluded 2023 RE+ Convection 2. White House launches clean energy youth workforce program amid labor shortage concerns 3. We talk about the Erthos technology and what it means to the clean energy revolution 4. Companies that were present at the RE+ and the new upcoming technology Check out Tim Montague on: Website: www.cleanpowerhour.com Youtube: www.youtube.com/@cleanpowerhour Twitter: www.twitter.com/tgmontague LinkedIn:www.linkedin.com/company/clean-power-hour?trk=public_post_follow-view-profile Email: tim@cleanpowerhour.com Tim Montague's co-host is: John Fitzgerald Weaver Known online as “The Commercial Solar Guy,” Solar professional and project developer. John Fitzgerald Weaver works as the General Manager of CSG Developers LLC and a technical writer for pv magazine USA, where he covers solar industry data, equipment and manufacturers, trends, regulations and much more! Reach John Fitzgerald Weaver here! LinkedIn Account: www.linkedin.com/in/johnfitzgeraldweaver/ Company Website: www.commercialsolarguy.com/ RSS Feed: www.commercialsolarguy.com/news/ For more information on solar, storage and everything else, go to www.solarSEAN.com

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 Pro STEM kits STEAM Science Technology Engineering Art Math RE+ Las Vegas Remote Control Race Cars Hydrogen Element Hydrogen Fires Lead Acid Batteries making Hydrogen Fuel Cells vs. Internal Combustion Engines with Hydrogen Toyota Hydrogen Combustion Engine JTB Hydrogen Engine Fuel Cells Need Clean Air Combustion of Hydrogen Makes Water Stoichiometry 2 H2 + O2 = H2O Toyota Murai Electrolysis is same Stoichiometry CPAP Machine is Electrolyzer making Oxygen and Getting Rid of Hydrogen Hydrogen Colors Green Hydrogen = Electrolysis (electricity and water) Brown Hydrogen Grey Hydrogen = Natural Gas Derived = 95% of H2 in the World Steam Reformation = Preexisting Hydrocarbons to make Hydrogen, Such as Municipal Waste Big Bang and Hydrogen Atoms Landfill Gas to Make Hydrogen Carbon Capture Turquoise Hydrogen = Pyrolyses Blue Hydrogen = SMR Steam Methane Reformation and Carbon Capture World Economy Forum Round Trip Efficiency of Hydrogen with Green Hydrogen 35% Hydrogen is Lighter than Lithium-Ion Hydrogen Electric Airplane Rocket Equation World’s Record for Lithium-Ion Battery Electric Trucking Autonomous Driving Cheating with race cars design The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain Bulgaria Team Underdog Los Angeles Team Wins Telemetry Systems Hacking other Team’s Telemetry Systems Anti Hacking Software Danika Patrick and NASCAR Formula E with Lithium-Ion vs. Fuel Cells Symbio from France Fuel Cells Hydrogen is the Future of Racing Sustainable Diesel = Diesel Made From Corn F1 to Hydrogen Explosions with Storing any Energy Recycling Critical Mass Bike Riders Car Explosion One Less Car Horizon Educational Global Headquarters in Czech Republic H2GP Foundation 501c3 Grants Sponsorship STEM Kits with Electrolyzer and Fuel Cell Remote Control Wind Solar Ethanol Solar Hydrogen Science Kits Pinewood Derby Rubber Band Energy Storage Free Hydrogen Curriculum Wind, Solar, Ethanol Science Kits Flinstone power   You can find them at: www.horizoneducational.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/horizoneducational/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/HorizonEducational/ LinkedIn: cz.linkedin.com/in/max-accordino Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCYHcXEZdZp8Zw2kmr3_I2Fw   To find out more and educate yourself, go to www.solarSEAN.com or www.HeatSpring.com/sean

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 Fermata Energy in 2010.   Here are some of the topics we covered: V2G Vehicle to Grid V1G smart charging V2X Vehicle to Everything V2B Vehicle to Building  V2L Vehicle to Load Behind the meter Load management< Power quality VARs CAISO Independent System Operator Grid vs. Utility is different ISO is grid made up of different utilities VPP Duke and Ford F-150 Lightning TEPCO Fukushima brought on V2X CHAdeMO protocol Nissan Leaf bidirectional in 2013 Offboard DC charger Software platform Vehicle battery comes free with leather seats and air conditioning EV battery warranty with V2X AI software Data science< Grid facing market opportunities Vehicle to grid services provider Defining 100% state of charge (SOC) 2000 Ford Ranger EV Setting parameters of SOC to protect battery LFP NCA NMC 4.2 volts per cell (VPC) at full charge Child labor in the Congo and cobalt Climate Early adopters Storage in EVs dwarfs stationary grid storage Beacon power flywheels University of Virginia vs. Virginia Tech UL testing of bidirectional EV chargers UL 1741 SB UL 1741 SA UL 1741 Siemens CCS North American Charging Standard = Tesla <5A continuous = 10,000kWh/yr at 240V Curtailing over $1B/yr of solar and wind in California Discharge behind the meter to reduce demand charges $200-$300 per month with 15kW EV to grid with Leaf Utility demand response programs National Grid summer demand response program< Bidirectional Nissan Leaf makes in 57 hours in a summer for $4500 in the evenings (after work) Onboard and offboard inverter/chargers EV1 Rav 4 EV Chevy S-10 EV Avcon GBT charging standard in China Chao G charging is CHAdeMO in China VW Dieselgate Self certify Electrify America Chademo 3.0 Father of EVs in Japan 99.3% uptime of EV chargers in Japan Much worse uptime in US SGIP (Self Generation Incentive Program) subsidies in California should apply to EV to grid Over 90% of EV charging happens at home Interconnection agreement of inverter is probably going to be a stationary inverter and not a roaming onboard inverter Weight of onboard inverter Using big inverter that spins wheels to feed the grid Raising capital and talking to oil companies Panasonic Chevron Oil companies future is renewables and are important sources of capital Yogaville Buckingham County Dominion Pipeline   David Slutzky  https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-slutzky-2a77875 Fermata Energy  https://fermataenergy.com/   To learn more, go to www.solarSEAN.com or www.HeatSpring.com/sean

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 Pacific in the 80s wearing a solar shirt and Ward Bower, the inventor of the grid-tied inverter, tapped him on the shoulder, which started his solar career full steam. Before that he was a marine biologist trying to figure out how to get electricity on a 12 acre island, so he could study oysters. The moral of this story is to always wear a solar T-shirt. Johnny Weiss is famous for starting Solar Energy International (SEI) in 1991 and has been working with PV modules since the mid 1980s. The story of how we decided to do this podcast goes... Johnny invited me to see the SEI campus a few weeks ago and I asked him to be on the podcast. I told him how Terence Parker was going to be on it, and he had great things to say about Terence, so we decided to make Johnny the surprise guest. Johnny was very helpful at helping me interview Terence, so he is probably going to help me interview more historical figures. Here are some of the names we dropped and things we talked about: Arco Solar MREA SEI Bob Ramlow Solis Solar Bridge Ken Olsen Home Power Richard Perez Borneo Sri Lanka Brazil World Bank Sandia Unisolar Out of the jungle Ward Bower Walked the PCH Diving for oysters Remote work Set Long Beach Convention Center on fire (need a follow up podcast on this one) Vestas Offshore wind Small wind Mick Sagrillo Bob-O Schultze LinkedIn pages   Terence Parker (not to be confused with Trey Parker of South Park) https://www.linkedin.com/in/terence-parker-2844a15/   Johnny Weiss (same last name as mine, but in a different language): https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnny-weiss-b025106/   To find out more, go to www.SolarSEAN.com and get NABCEP certified!

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 batteries. In this podcast we are going to talk about anodes and how these anodes could potentially be used with other types of batteries and other types of electrolytes. Let us hear from Matthew Kappers on how he and his team work with anodes, which is what makes their company so special!    Besides being an informative discussion, it was also a good conversation, which you can now join!   Here is a list of the topics we cover: Coretec Group's Endurion battery technology Silicon nanoparticles Anodes Solid Electrolyte Interface (SEI) layer Increasing lithium ion battery capacity by 100% with 20% silicon Most EV batteries have no silicon 100% silicon anode would increase capacity 10x Drop in solution Partner with battery manufacturer Patents Silicon vs. silicone Specific energy is per weight Energy density is energy per volume Most people say energy density when they mean specific energy Lithium anode battery (not rechargeable) Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) cobalt mining Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) cathodes Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxide (NMC) cathodes Lithium Nickel Cobalt Aluminum Oxide (NCA) cathodes CRTG stock ticker Slurry technology Driving an EV across the country with one charge Rocket equation for Cannonball Run Earth by weight there is more iron than anything else Battery recycling 2nd life batteries Vehicle to grid (V2G) EV less expensive per kWh than home battery Lead toxicity Lithium nontoxic Visit The Coretec Group here: Website: www.thecoretecgroup.com Youtube: www.youtube.com/@thecoretecgroup7034 Twitter: www.twitter.com/CoretecGroupInc LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/the-coretec-group-inc Find out more, educate yourself, go to www.solarSEAN.com   Take Sean's Energy Storage Boot Camp and be in the know!

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 a modern solar module is made.   Here are some of the terms we cover:   Encapsulant An encapsulated mosquito in a solar cell (a Jurassic Park event) Electroluminescent Microcracks Busbars Lamination Half-cells Junction boxes Potting Multi-arm robot Silicon cement High voltage testing (1500V) Flash testing Current voltage curve 1.5AM STC Factory temperature PID (Potential Induced Degradation) PERC (Passive Emitter Rear Contact)< TOPCon = 3 processes on top of a PERC cell N-type P-type Heterojunction Polysilicon Ingot Wafer Cell China Ontario Canada Feed-in-tariff (FIT) Sarnia Ontario Sault Ste Marie Solar modules are like windows   Check out: www.heliene.com   To learn more about how solar is manufactured, and everything else about solar and storage, go to www.solarSEAN.com

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 solarSEAN.com.  Disclaimer: This podcast was recorded in 2021. Keywords NEC Article 706 for Energy Storage Systems, UL 9540, Article 480, nominal voltage, cycling batteries, UL 1973, residential code, UL 1989, AHJ, inspector advice, communications between battery and inverter, flywheels, flow batteries, UPS, Australia and Hawaii, NexTracker, inverter output circuit, nameplate on ESS, apparent power, fault currents limited, maximum output current definition, LG chem battery, power converter, OSHA NRTL, ETL, Intertech, UL, SMA, UL standards writing entity vs. UL testing entity, 2021 International Residential Code, Tesla Powerwall, storage inverter, Ginlong, 9540A, liquid cooled vs. air cooled, Enphase Barbecue, Enphase in boiled water, ESS disconnecting means, readily accessible, unbalanced interconnections, single-phase inverters on 3-phase services, voltage rise, 705.12 Load-Side Connections, 710 Stand Alone Systems, plaque or directory, wire sizing, ampacity, overcurrent protection device, rounding up wire size to common overcurrent protection device size, energy storage is a source and a load, using continuous current instead of surge current, inverter input circuit current, diversion loads, C40 charge controllers without maximum power point tracking and diversion loads, energy storage as a diversion load, hot water loads, pulse with modulation (PWM), 150% correction factors for diversion loads, dc-to-dc converters, required ampacity for continuous current vs. continuous current, commercial and industrial (C&I). Links: Bill Brooks, P.E.: www.brooksolar.com www.solarSEAN.com www.HeatSpring.com/SEAN 

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. Some of their accomplishments pertain to pioneering systems for hospitals and healthcare institutions. Faraday Microgrids constructed the first renewable energy microgrid to interconnect to a vitally important power branch of a California hospital at the Kaiser Permanente site in Richmond. Faraday Microgrids is wide open to develop and design projects. They focus on essential sectors including healthcare, industrial, manufacturing, and community safety. You may also contact David Bliss and his team by checking here! Faraday Microgrids’ Website: www.faradaymicrogrids.com Faraday Microgrids’ Office: 949-305-7820 To find out more and educate yourself, go to www.solarSEAN.com