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Museum shines with solar power
The Eden Killer Whale Museum has stepped into the age of renewable
energy after the installation of grid connected solar power last
week.
The museum received a federal grant of $13,500 for the project, which can generate two kilowatts of power, covering the museum’s needs and ideally selling surplus power back to the electricity grid.
The system begins with 12 solar panels on the museum’s roof. The photovoltaic solar panels on the roof produce DC power, which is converted to AC power through a bi-directional meter.
Power not used by the museum is then fed into the grid and credited against any power used in times of low solar energy.
Museum president Jack Dickenson said the solar panels achieved three goals.
It lessens our reliance on mains power and the cost associated with that, second it reduces our carbon footprint and thirdly, we hope to put green power back into the grid.
We consider ourselves one of the leading groups in the community in terms of innovations and this helps us achieve our objectives.
Mr Dickenson said the system has potential for educate our community. There's a little portable radio unit which calculates how much carbon you have saved, what you produce, date and it will be a great educational tool. Its quite an amazing bit of equipment.
The system was installed in a day and a half by Pyramid Power of Pambula.
Links:
Pyramid Power
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
The museum received a federal grant of $13,500 for the project, which can generate two kilowatts of power, covering the museum’s needs and ideally selling surplus power back to the electricity grid.
The system begins with 12 solar panels on the museum’s roof. The photovoltaic solar panels on the roof produce DC power, which is converted to AC power through a bi-directional meter.
Power not used by the museum is then fed into the grid and credited against any power used in times of low solar energy.
Museum president Jack Dickenson said the solar panels achieved three goals.
It lessens our reliance on mains power and the cost associated with that, second it reduces our carbon footprint and thirdly, we hope to put green power back into the grid.
We consider ourselves one of the leading groups in the community in terms of innovations and this helps us achieve our objectives.
Mr Dickenson said the system has potential for educate our community. There's a little portable radio unit which calculates how much carbon you have saved, what you produce, date and it will be a great educational tool. Its quite an amazing bit of equipment.
The system was installed in a day and a half by Pyramid Power of Pambula.
Links:
Pyramid Power
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts