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Solar electricity basics : powering your home or office with solar energy / Dan Chiras.

Chiras, Daniel D, (author., Author).

Summary:

"Solar Electricity Basics is a highly readable introduction to a promising technology, ideal for homeowners, business owners, builders, and students. It covers everything you need to work with solar electricity including sizing a solar electric system, types of systems, how systems operate, and costs and benefits."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780865719255
  • ISBN: 086571925X
  • Physical Description: vii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Second revised edition.
  • Publisher: Gabriola Island, British Columbia : New Society Publishers, [2020]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Subject: Photovoltaic power generation > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Solar energy > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Genre: Handbooks and manuals.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Prince Rupert Library 621.31 Chir (Text) 33294002075935 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -

Dan Chiras, Ph.D., is the author of numerous books on renewable energy, including Power from the Sun, Power from the Wind and The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy. He has taught workshops on solar electricity through various organizations including the Evergreen Institute, the American Solar Energy Society, the Colorado Renewable Energy Society, Missouri Solar Energy Industries Association, and the University of Colorado. Over the past 40 years Chiras has published articles on natural building, green building, solar electricity, passive solar design, self-sufficiency, and sustainability in publications such as Solar Today, Home Power, and Mother Earth News. He has installed solar electric and wind systems in Missouri, and has lived on solar electricity since 1996. He lives in Gerald, MO.


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