Solar Wolf Energy Blog

Protect Your Home From Power Outages With Battery Backup

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Home Battery backup systems are the wave of the future. Home Batteries offer seamless backup power, with or without solar! When paired with a home solar system they can virtually eliminate blackouts in an off-the-grid lifestyle. It's time to ditch those loud gas eating generators for a virtually silent backup power source.What Is a Self-Powered Home?A self-powered home combines solar energy and home battery backup to independently power your...

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Mike "Tech Overlord" Collette

Product Spotlight - Generac PWRcell Home Energy Storage Battery

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Power your home, save money and prepare for power outages with the Generac PWRcell Solar + Battery Storage System. A PWRcell system can provide up to 9kW of continuous backup power to a home's essential power needs, or to the whole home. A single PWRcell battery can provide enough motor starting power to backup large loads like air conditioners and well pumps.The PWRcell battery is not only the most powerful battery on the market, it is...

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Mike "Tech Overlord" Collette

Product Spotlight - LG Chem RESU Home Battery Energy Storage

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LG is a leader in the home electronics industry and manufactures some of the most popular solar panels. Outside of making solar panels, LG's battery subsidiary, LG Chem, produces one of the most popular batteries in the U.S. market: the LG Chem RESU 10H battery.LG chem is ranked as one of the world's largest lithium-ion battery manufacturers with 29,000 employees and manufacturing facilities in South Korea, China and the US. The company supplies ...

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Mike "Tech Overlord" Collette

Owning Your Own (SOLAR) Gas Station

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In 1974 I was just turning 17 years old. My hair was long and my goals were yet to be figured out. Many do not know that this was the period of the gas crisis. Escalating prices and shortages were the bane of drivers of motor cars. I owned a 1964 VW beetle that was my pride and joy. I was on the verge of going to college for physics where my thoughts would change.  You see this was the era of gas lines and escalating prices. This was...

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Jeff Hickson LEED AP

Vampire Loads Are Costing You Money!

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There's a vampire on the loose! Whether you're at work, at home or out on the town, this vampire is taking a bite out of your wallet and raising your electricity costs. But, there's no need to barricade the house and stock up on garlic just yet. This vampire works entirely though your electrical outlets and stopping this monster can be as easy as pulling a few plugs.Vampire Power can go by many names. For example - Standby power, vampire draw,...

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Mike "Tech Overlord" Collette

Solar Wolf Energy Launches Brand New Website

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This week we are excited to announce that Solar Wolf Energy launched a brand new website! The goal of the new website has many facets which I will share with you all below. Beware, it might get a little technical.

Any Device, Anywhere
To begin with, we wanted the website to work flawlessly across any device whether it be a Phone, Tablet, Laptop, PC, TV, etc... People access information in many different ways so we wanted to cater to everyone as...

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Mike "Tech Overlord" Collette

Solar Wolf Energy Expanding to Auburn & Hiring 40 Employees

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Solar Wolf Energy will purchase the former Cabot House Furniture location in Auburn in an expansion where the company will add 40 employees.

The Douglas clean energy installer has secured a lease-to-own agreement for the building located at 771 Washington St. in Auburn. CEO Ted Strzelecki said the 38,000-square-foot location will house areas for training, an employee gym, library as well as audio and video facilities for the firm’s YouTube...

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Ted "The Wolf" Strzelecki

How Do You Size a Solar PV System?

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I have been thinking about how I size a solar PV system. The answer seems simple. You size it to the customer's electrical load.  Is that the right answer though? On the face of it, it would seem so. Over more than a decade of designing my thought has changed and frankly I am better at what I do.  It has been driven by my exposure to the processes of others as well as my thoughts on results. I see other designs, the promises made and...

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Jeff Hickson LEED AP