Solar and Renewable Energy ...
Published by Scott Sklar, The Stella Group, Ltd. - President
Solar and Renewable Energy Municipal Water & Sewage
There are many examples of using solar photovoltaics in municipal solar water facilities throughout the world. Actually, some solar UV systems are also used to reduce water contaminants. For sewage, biogas systems are more commonly used because you have both biosolids and the off-gas is methane which is commonly flared for safety. Solar photovoltaics makes sense to drive pumps, and security systems and senors, but biogas generators could meet most of the energy load - even use of CHP systems converting the waste heat of the pumps to electricity. - Scott
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Scott Sklar
President
The Stella Group, Ltd.
1616 H Street, N.W., 10th floor
Washington, D.C. 20006
Phone: 202-347-2214
Fax: 202-347-2215
E-mail: solarsklar@aol.com
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The Stella Group, Ltd.. is a technology optimization and strategic policy firm for clean distributed energy users and companies which include advanced batteries and controls, energy efficiency, fuel cells, geo-exchange, heat engines, minigeneration (natural gas/propane), microhydropower, modular biomass, photovoltaics, small wind, and solar buiding apps l (including daylighting, water heating, industrial preheat, building air-conditioning, and electric power generation), and advanced water energy, pumping, purification technologies. The Stella Group, Ltd. blends distributed energy technologies, aggregates financing (including leasing), with a focus on system standardization. Scott Sklar, the Group's founder and president, lives in a solar home in Arlington and both his VA and DC office buidings have multiple renewable energy applications, Virginia and his coauthored books:The Forbidden Fuel (updated and just re-released in 2010), and A Consumer Guide to Solar Energy, ( re-released for its third printing), and his ongoing commentaries and Q&A's are on the largest renewable energy web portal: www.RenewableEnergyWorld.com. and the National Journal energy experts blog.
Scott Sklar serves as Steering Committee Chair of the Sustainable Energy Coalition, composed of the renewable energy and energy efficiency trade associations and analytical groups, and sits on the national Boards of Directors of the non-profit Business Council for Sustainable Energy, and The Solar Foundation. Sklar is an Adjunct Professor at The George Washington University teaching two unique multi-disciplinary sustainable energy courses, as well as an Affiliated Professor with CATIE, an international graduate university based in Costa Rica. In December 2012, Sklar was appointed and named as Vice Chairman by Acting Secretary Rebecca Blank to the Department of Commerce Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Advisory Committee, term ending June 2014.