DON'T FORGET YOUR POWER
Consider this situation in a company:Technician: The server is down!!! The server is down!!!
Boss: What's all the fuss about? Go put on the generator.
Technician: (After a few minutes) Sir, something is wrong with the generator.
Boss : (Starting to panic) What of the inverters?
Technician: There's been a break in connection, there's no output.
Boss: (Now in a state of dilemma) The UPS?
Technician: They'll be off in less than 2 minutes.
Boss: Ahhhhhh!!
This must have been a 15th century company. They don't know about backup and must be ignorant of the saying,"Precaution is better than cure." If your company falls in this category, then you'll need a whole lot of restructuring to do. Believe me, it's nothing personal, it's just for your own good.
By now you must have guessed that I'm not referring to big companies that have multiple branches or multinationals or corporations. This mainly goes to business startups who have a little 'know-how' of IT or have limited capital to get the right office power appliances.
SAVE ON ENERGY BILLS
As a business start-up, one of your major concerns should be energy. It's part of the whole business make-up. It's also one of the utilities that tend to zap cash from your account, especially if you don't know what form of energy to use and how to use it.
Sources of energy vary from wind to fossil fuel to solar energy. Being that global warming seems to be the order of the day, solar energy as a source of electricity has become reliable and "cheap" as the case should be. Harnessing the power of the sun for your business operations should be your priority.
Solar panels are one of the basic components of any photovoltaic system. Some top manufacturers of solar panels include GE, Evergreen, Sharp, and Schott.
Panels themselves are only a part of what it takes to run a PV system.
Your current usage is probably the single most important fact to bring into the discussion of obtaining solar power. Knowing what you use (that is, the number of appliances you want to power) will allow you to accurately assess how many solar panels it would take to meet part or all of that usage. Looking at your current usage also gives you a great idea of what steps you can take to reduce your power consumption.
In addition to solar panels, a good PV (PhotoVoltaic) system includes an inverter, batter storage/backup, and possibly a grid tie-in. An inverter is necessary because your panels produce direct current, while your home uses alternating current. This simply means that an inverter converts DC (direct current)to AC (alternating current). It is important to remember that the conversion from DC to AC does take a voltage hit, so you will need to budget extra power to ensure that enough is left after the transfer to meet your needs.
Battery backup allows you to run off of solar power even when the sun is down. Studies have shown that peak power usage lasts from about 6pm to midnight in most areas. This is when everyone gets home, turns on the TV, the oven, lights, what have you. For most of the year, half of the 6-12 timeframe is too dark to produce meaningful power. To get around this, solar systems can store excess power they produce in batteries and then use that power once it is needed.
Solar power is so necessary and useful, therefore it should be made available and cheap, especially for developing countries, since it will reduce the cost of energy.
