1) The document discusses a solar assistance program that aims to make solar power accessible to low-income families to help address fuel poverty and rising energy costs.
2) It outlines four programs focused on solar assistance, contracting, youth training, and research and describes typical solar system performance reductions in fuel usage.
3) Eligibility requires being an energy assistance recipient with a good solar site and weatherized home, while emphasizing efficiency improvements before renewable options to maximize energy savings.
George Whiting, of EcoHeat Solutions, LLC, will discuss how to create a home heating system that is highly efficient in addition to using low-cost fuels. Paul Marquis, Education Coordinator at The Green Roundtable, will discuss strategies for energy conservation by creating a right building envelope. The presentation will cover the following topics:
-The relative importance of energy use in the home: Energy for Heating vs. Energy for Electricity to run appliances, lights, etc.
-The relative importance of efficiency, conservation, and fuel costs
-The pluses and minuses of typical Heating Systems in the home, such as forced air, forced hot water, steam, gravity and stoves.
-And the pluses and minuses of typical fuels: oil, gas, propane, electricity, wood, wood pellets, geothermal and solar.
The presenter was George Whiting from Ecoheat Solutions.
Solar Power - Sustainable energy solutions for your homenpower_pdf
npower is at the forefront of developing new technologies and we see Solar Photovoltaic (Solar PV) as an important and increasingly popular way for homeowners to generate their own electricity.
Basic presentation by Solar Skies Manufacturing LLC about their solar thermal hot water collectors and other products, with lots of photos and case studies of specific applications.
George Whiting, of EcoHeat Solutions, LLC, will discuss how to create a home heating system that is highly efficient in addition to using low-cost fuels. Paul Marquis, Education Coordinator at The Green Roundtable, will discuss strategies for energy conservation by creating a right building envelope. The presentation will cover the following topics:
-The relative importance of energy use in the home: Energy for Heating vs. Energy for Electricity to run appliances, lights, etc.
-The relative importance of efficiency, conservation, and fuel costs
-The pluses and minuses of typical Heating Systems in the home, such as forced air, forced hot water, steam, gravity and stoves.
-And the pluses and minuses of typical fuels: oil, gas, propane, electricity, wood, wood pellets, geothermal and solar.
The presenter was George Whiting from Ecoheat Solutions.
Solar Power - Sustainable energy solutions for your homenpower_pdf
npower is at the forefront of developing new technologies and we see Solar Photovoltaic (Solar PV) as an important and increasingly popular way for homeowners to generate their own electricity.
Basic presentation by Solar Skies Manufacturing LLC about their solar thermal hot water collectors and other products, with lots of photos and case studies of specific applications.
Should You Buy an Alternative Vehicle for Economic and/or Environmental Reasons?University of Minnesota
By Douglas G. Tiffany, Assistant Extension Professor at University of Minnesota. This presentation discusses capabilities of four vehicles: Conventional Vehicles (ICE); Hybrids (HEV); Electric Vehicles (EV); Extended Range Electric Vehicles (PHEV). It will also: Demonstrate a consumer decision tool to anticipate consumer behavior; Determine costs of ownership and operation; and Compare GHG emissions of the four cars. Presentation given at CERTs electric car event in Rochester, MN on April 26, 2011. More at http://bit.ly/mhPyGE.
Should You Buy an Alternative Vehicle for Economic and/or Environmental Reasons?University of Minnesota
By Douglas G. Tiffany, Assistant Extension Professor at University of Minnesota. This presentation discusses capabilities of four vehicles: Conventional Vehicles (ICE); Hybrids (HEV); Electric Vehicles (EV); Extended Range Electric Vehicles (PHEV). It will also: Demonstrate a consumer decision tool to anticipate consumer behavior; Determine costs of ownership and operation; and Compare GHG emissions of the four cars. Presentation given at CERTs electric car event in Rochester, MN on April 26, 2011. More at http://bit.ly/mhPyGE.
The present study focuses on the development of software (general mathematical optimization model) which has the following characteristics:
• It will be able to find the optimal combination of installed equipment (power & heat generation etc) in a Shopping Mall (micro-grid)
• With multi-objective to maximize the cost at the same time as minimizing the environmental impacts (i.e. CO2 emissions).
• To date, this tool is scarce to the industry (similar to DER-CAM, Homer).
During this seminar we will discuss the design and operational characteristics of a geothermal HVAC system. We will explore the different configurations of a geothermal system including standing column, horizontal loop, vertical loop and pond loop systems. We will compare geothermal HVAC systems with conventional HVAC systems relative to first costs, operating costs, functionality and maintenance focusing on commercial buildings.
Learning Objectives:
-Develop an understanding of how a geothermal heat pump system operates.
-Have the ability to assess if a building is a candidate for a geothermal heat pump system.
-Understand the environmental, operational and cost benefits of a geothermal heat pump system.
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-Develop an understanding of how a geothermal heat pump system operates.
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-Have the ability to assess if a building is a candidate for a geothermal heat pump system.
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-Understand the environmental, operational and cost benefits of a geothermal heat pump system.
Canadian Solar Heat Pump - Introduction4smartheating
Canadian Solar Heat Pump Institute introduces 4th Gen Solar Heating using Solar PV & Solar Thermal, plus Waste Heat Recovery, and advancements on Ground & Air Source Heat Pumps as a breakthrough in economical space heating and domestic hot water. Economical $1/watt installed, all inclusive Levelized Cost Of Energy $0.04 kWht, under 5 year Payback, and 1 year 100% Return On Investment.
Australia’s commercial sector is feeling the fallout of the economic downturn. A sharp reduction in demand for office space, along with increasing unemployment and declining economic growth forecasts are beginning to take a toll on the sector.
However, the time ahead could also pose some significant opportunities.
In this report we investigate how building owners can use this ‘down time’ to reposition their assets, increase energy efficiency and improve value. By rethinking the way building owners invest, there are opportunities to achieve greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions while creating a raft of employment opportunities across the nation. This effectively leads to a stimulus ready productivity and performance improvement of a significant part of our built environment.
Presentation from half day workshop on duplicating results achieved in the Department of Energy\'s Gulf Coast High Performance Affordable Housing Demonstration Project
In 2019, the Minnesota Legislature allocated funding to the Environmental Quality Board to study the potential for solar development on Minnesota’s Closed Landfill Program sites. Solar development on these sites would put underutilized, contaminated land to use generating clean energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and creating jobs and revenue. Siting solar on brownfields like closed landfills—called "brightfield" development—can also reduce development pressure on other lands, such as farmland and natural areas. The Environmental Quality Board delivered a report to the legislature in December 2020, and data about Closed Landfills Program sites is now available.
On May 15, 2019 over 80 people gathered in Moorhead, MN to learn about electric vehicle (EV) use and infrastructure and how it's growing in the region.
This presentation by Shane Stennes, Director of Sustainability at the University of Minnesota, was given at the MnSEIA Midwest Gateway to Solar Conference on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 and details solar installation and procurement across the organization.
On Tuesday, December 5th nearly 30 hardy Minnesotans ventured out on one of the first really cold days of the season to join Northeast Clean Energy Resource Team (NE CERT) to learn about Hartley Nature Center’s solar plus battery storage project. While solar and storage are frequently discussed, there are few examples up and running in Minnesota that one can actually visit and learn from. Not only that, there are even fewer such systems that are done as retrofits to older solar arrays. Hartley’s project is an excellent example of both!
Presentations from the 10th Metro CERT Annual Resource and Networking Event on September 13, 2017. Learn more and see photos at https://www.cleanenergyresourceteams.org/blog/over-100-people-celebrate-10th-annual-metro-cert-event
This presentation from the Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) offers a case study of a poultry farm in Minnesota switching to a wood chip burning furnace to heat their barns.
This presentation from the Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) covers: [1] Property-Assessed Clean Energy (PACE); [2] Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) program; and [3] US Department of Agriculture (USDA) program.
Biomass Opportunities for Agricultural Operations: Feed, Fuel, and BeddingUniversity of Minnesota
This presentation by the Agricultural Utilization and Research Institute (AURI) covers: [1] new and existing biomass product opportunities; [2] project examples; [3] utilizing biomass for thermal requirements; [4] alternative feeds; and [5] what's on the horizon.
In the fourth year of benchmarking, Minneapolis is releasing individual building results for public commercial buildings greater than 25,000 sq.ft. and private commercial buildings 50,000 sq.ft. and greater in size.
Presentation covers:
CITY-WIDE ENERGY GOAL& STATISTICS
SOLAR INITIATIVES
STREET LIGHT IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
RESOURCE RECOVERY & ENERGY EFFICIENCY MASTER PLAN R2E2
Efficiency Improvements & Upgrades
Biofuel Utilization
COMMUNITY ENERGY ACTION PLAN
FUTURE INITIATIVES
On September 20th, 2016 nearly 40 people gathered at the Shoreview Community Center to learn about community solar gardens and network with experts and developers. <a>Click here to learn more</a>.
The mission of the University of Minnesota’s Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) is to “foster the economic development of Minnesota’s natural resources in an environmentally sound manner to promote private sector employment.” On a recent Northeast CERT tour, participants were given a sneak peek at the innovative ways NRRI is fulfilling their mission in the realm of energy. See the slides to learn more.
Is a community solar garden subscription right for your local government?University of Minnesota
Community Solar Gardens can be an excellent opportunity for cities, counties, and other local governments to get involved in solar energy and engage community members. In this webinar, Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) staff provide an overview of community solar and then dig into the details that will help you make decisions. More at http://www.cleanenergyresourceteams.org/blog/webinar-community-solar-garden-subscription-right-your-local-government
This succinct document outlines all USDA Rural Development programs--across the areas of Housing, Rural Business & Cooperative, and Community Programs & Utility Services.
This presentation walks you through the dairy production process and opportunities for efficiency each step of the way. Learn more at http://mncerts.org/dairy
Annie Levenson-Falk with the Legislative Energy Commission presents about the 2025 Minnesota Energy Action Plan at four CERTs regional events to engage people about the state's energy future. Learn more at http://www.cleanenergyresourceteams.org/blog/weigh-minnesota-2025-energy-action-plan.
Community Solar Gardens are centrally-located solar photovoltaic (PV) systems that provide electricity to participating subscribers. Could it work for you? Are you interested in going solar but unable to do so on your own? Perhaps you live in an apartment, have a shaded roof at home, or don’t have space at your organization. This presentation can help you learn more. For further resources, visit http://www.cleanenergyresourceteams.org/solargardens.
Mayor Rita Albrecht shares information about the City of Bemidji's Guaranteed Energy Savings Performance Contract to do energy efficiency work across 9 city buildings and to install LED street lights. More information at http://www.cleanenergyresourceteams.org/blog/saving-energy-city-wide-bemidji-guaranteed-energy-savings-program.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
7. Energy Assistance in
Minnesota:
• $60-80million each year!
• 250,000 families apply
•125,000 Families Served
• Average allotment: $400-500
Does Energy Assistance
offer a long-term
solution?
12. Types of Solar Heat
Passive Active
Solar Water
Air Thermosiphon
Force
Hot Water
d Air
Thermosiphon
Closed Loop
Air Heater
Antifreeze
Drainback
Passive Home
Design
17. Typical Solar
Assistance
System Performance
• 3 Collectors (72-96 Square Feet)
• 9 Million Btus per heating season
• $4700 installed cost
18. MN Power
Electric Utility Study
Site 1 Site 2 Site 3
Pre Solar Heat
671 993 738
Avg. Use in
Therms
(Normalized
for Weather)
Post Solar
590 782 622
Heat Use in
Therms
Annual
81 211 116
Therms
Reduction
19. Solar Assistance
Program Eligibility
• Energy Assistance Recipient
• Good Solar Site
• Weatherized Home
• Home Ownership
• Sweat Equity (Conditional)
21. Costs and Benefits of
Solar Assistance
Fuel Source Payback Simple Return on
displaced Years Payback investment**
Years
Propane 13 10 9.2%
Fuel oil 16 13 7.9%
Natural Gas 20 15 6.6%
Electricity 26 15 6.0%
LIHEAP 17 14 7.1%
Weighted
Average
22. Average Annual Pollutant Reduction (Pounds)
Pollutant Electricity Fuel Oil Wood LPG
Natural LIHEAP
Gas weighted
average
CO2 822 4,495 1,118 1,649 921 1,374
NOx 1.05 13.41 0.905 NA 1.05 2.02
SO2 0.004 15.87 NA NA 0.004 12.30
PM-10 0.013 5.05 0.011 NA 0.013 0.62
VOC 0.038 6.95 1.33 NA 0.038 0.94
CO 0.168 68.57 1.73 NA 0.168 8.46
Negligible 7.489e-05
Hg Negligible 30.25
23. State and Federal Initiatives for
Renewable Heat for Low-income
Heating Assistance
MN House File
Federal Weatherization
Energy Independence and 2137 –
Assistance Program
Security act of 2007 Sec. 411 Petroleum
Rule Change
Authorizes Secretary of Inspection Fee to
encouragingmake funding
Energy to solar heat be used for
for low-income
available to local Weatherization
weatherization (Federal funding for
weatherization programs for
Register v.71 n.120. Solar Heat for
residential renewable
Low-income
6/22/06)
energy projects.
Families
24. Benefits of Solar Assistance
• Long-term Solution Fostering Self-reliance
• Ending program dependency
• Clean technology
• Compliant with RES
• Promotes National Security
• Hedge against energy insecurity
• Social Justice and Environmental Issues
Addressed with the Same Dollars!