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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bas Noij (BonaireTalker - Post #33) on Sunday, July 16, 2006 - 5:35 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

In a previous thread there was mentioning of solar panels (PV panels/modules) being prohibited by WEB. Does anyone have information about this. I would like to bring a few panels to Bonaire to power our pool pump and maybe stuff like fridges during the day. We would install a battery bank so we would NOT be pumping power back into the WEB grid. Would it be allowed in this scenario? Where could we get confirmation about this?

Thanks!

Bas.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rob van de Vechte (BonaireTalker - Post #13) on Sunday, July 16, 2006 - 6:36 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

don't awake sleeping dogs, just install it and never mention again

take care

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hans Bos (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #1) on Sunday, July 16, 2006 - 11:15 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

I have been wondering about this as well. I live in San Francisco (when not in Bonaire) and have a utility intertie system there (where you feed energy back into the grid). We haven't paid an electric bill in three years now and it is a wonderful system, because it feeds the grid exactly at the hottest part of the day when there is most demand on the utility company. Also, you don't need messy and expensive batteries.

I would really like to install a similar system on our house in Bonaire, especially if we are going to spend more time there in the future. In California, the utility intertie system really favors the consumer, because it simply lets the meter turn backwards, which ours does in the summer, making up for our electricity consumption during the darker winter months.

I'm thinking that Bonaire with all its sunshine would be a perfect place for a large-scale residential solar project. You could probably get some of the larger solar power companies interested in contributing to a demonstration project that would electrify a whole island in the Caribbean and I would think that the Dutch government might also be interested in supporting something like this. It would make a real strong point about doing the right thing to reduce global warming.

I wonder if there would be any interest in this on the part of the Bonaire government or the electric company.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Brigitte Kley - Coco Palm Garden (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #490) on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 7:49 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

WEB (the water en electricity company) has a new director (1 year now ??) , you can always try . But in the past is was: you use solar panels or wind energy, no electricity from us anymore....

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rob van de Vechte (BonaireTalker - Post #16) on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 8:07 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Think our infrastructure of the net is not capable that input of power is coming from all directions. it's working pretty well now compared to a couple of years ago. I know there is a demand for more power for expanding projects on the island, but a couple of household panels will not do the job. maybe we better make ourselves strong for a panel and wind plant on the east side and help ourself with independend systems. I want to use solar too for my computer equipment, but not a hair on my head thinks of hooking a reliable system onto the web now.
And last but not least, nature reserve and economics don't go together well anywhere in the world. only up till a certain level

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Antony Bond (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #111) on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 5:01 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

There is a Minnie Kroon who lives on the island and is a licenced supplier/installer of Solar Panels.

If anyone wants more info, please PM your details and I will pass them to Minnie.

Tony............

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hans Bos (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #2) on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 9:15 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

As far as I know the quality of the electricity infrastructure really isn't an issue. The energy being generated by an individual consumer with solar panels gets transformed into exactly the same energy that comes into your house, so the net does not see the difference between what it takes in from your solar panels and what it gives out to your neighbor's air conditioner. It could become a problem if the island would generate more solar energy than it uses, but we're a long way from that...

I don't know if any of you have seen An Inconvenient Truth, but carbon pollution is a worldwide problem and solarizing sunny islands like Bonaire and Australia is a lot more efficient than doing the same thing in Amsterdam or New York, not to mention the economic benefits to the residents of Bonaire.

Next time I'm on the island I would love to meet the new WEB director and raise the issue!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Richard Kessler (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #1) on Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 12:06 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

removed by moderator for self promotion please read TOS

 


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