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WorldWater Completes 400 Kw California Solar Project

WorldWater & Power Corp. (OTCBB:WWAT.OB) has completed and commissioned a 400 kilowatt photovoltaic system project by Quantum Energy Group, the construction and engineering subsidiary it acquired in 2005. The new photovoltaic (PV) system provides solar power to offset electric utility consumption at a complex of four tenant-occupied buildings in Menlo Park, California, south of San Francisco. The buildings house more than 50 different types of businesses, ranging from high-tech, dot-com companies to auto repair businesses. Total system output is approximately 386,125 watts, which is expected to meet virtually all of the current annual electric usage charges for the four buildings. Quantum Energy Group designed and installed PV arrays on the roofs of three of the buildings, with extensions that allow part of the system to serve as an awning over each of the front entrances. For the fourth building, the PV system was installed in the front parking area. Quantum worked closely with the utility company, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), to install the systems and ensure successful interconnection with the local electric grid. Each system has been approved for rebate funding from the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC). The buildings — three concrete tilt-up structures and one metal building […]

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Energy Impasse

Two weeks ago, a brief Russia-Ukraine squabble over natural gas pricing sent a tremor through Europe. One week ago, another tremor swept through the West – this time America joined in the shakes – when Iran broke open internationally monitored seals on its nuclear facilities, clearing the way for uranium enrichment activities that are a big step toward making a nuclear weapon. These two events, in different ways, illustrate the dangers of relying as heavily as the West does on imported energy, much of it coming from chronically unstable countries. The United States, as the world’s biggest and most profligate energy consumer, could do more than any other country to lessen this dangerous dependency, and in that way reduce the geopolitical leverage of capricious supplier nations. In Europe, all it took was Russia’s cutting the flow of the natural gas it pipes through Ukraine, ostensibly in a dispute over pricing and transit fees, to shake world energy markets and leave Europeans reviewing their reliance on Russia for energy. Fast-forward one week, to last Tuesday, when Iranian officials, ignoring pleas and threats from Europe and America, broke the seals on its nuclear facilities. And why not? President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the […]

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