Subject: More on backwards lamp dimmers

From: [email-masked] (Nick Pine)
Date: 19 Oct 1995 16:48:27 -0400

Today an engineer told me that he was at a DOE review meeting yesterday in
Washington, DC. One of the speakers got up and showed the audience a PV panel
with a line cord coming out of the back and a 110 VAC plug. He then plugged
the cord into a wall socket and put the panel near a window and measured the
power being fed back into the building's AC supply.

The developer was apparently Solar Design Associates, a small company near
Boston, and the eventual seller of this integrated small grid-tie inverter
product will be Solarex, owned by Arco. 

Nick