GE Solar Carport Installation for EV Charging at Plainville, CT

The solar carport's 100kW system includes10 EV charging stations and can fully charge as many as 20 electric vehicles every day. It generates enough energy to power up to 20 homes for a year and feeds excess energy back to the grid. Designed by Inovateus Solar in conjunction with the GE project team, it incorporates GE EverGold(tm) solar products. Learn more at: http://www.geindustrial.com/solar/vform.htm

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Solar
• EV Charger
• GE
• EverGold
• Inovateus
• Carport
• Plainville
• Electric Vehicles
• Energy

[keefriff99]

I used to work at this facility in Plainville.

The building itself is quite old but it's been renovated and the interior is really nice. The time-lapse camera was mounted to the building, and the view is pointed at the employee parking lot, which is where this carport was built next to.

Cool idea...I really don't know if this will ever be practical on a large scale, but simply from a proof-of-concept standpoint, it's pretty neat.

[keefriff99]

@yakyakyak69 "Social-fascist"? Nice made-up terminology.

I see you went to the Jonah Goldberg/Glenn Beck school of trying to tie both communism AND fascism (opposite ends of the political spectrum, btw) to "liberals" and "progressives."

Nice try, but it's a completely bogus assertion, as any reputable scholar will tell you.

Crony capitalism IS a problem, but the Republicans are even worse than the Democrats when it comes to the corrosive intersection of government and corporate interests.

[darrenrodd]

yakyak you are right and the 180 bill to nuclear energy, and the 400 billion to the highways departments, and the 200 billion for the internet..why can't we get the country back the way the Indians had it and get rid off all these subsidies..Im with you

[yakyakyak69]

Is part of the cost of these systems was paid for by the taxpayers?

In return, the taxpayers got what? Higher taxes!

This is not capitalism, it is crony-capitalism aka social-fascist "public-private partnerships.

The "green special interests" have the nerve to blame capitalism for failing economies when the real problem is the power of gov't to regulate & redistribute to favor THEIR "special interest" campaign backers aka cronyism.

THIS political cronyism is why GE pays no taxes!

[TheKoodude7]

I support this

[eeikman]

Ok, if GE didn't use the gov't tax breaks to subsidize these projects, they wouldn't exist. This is how GE got away with paying $0 in federal taxes, isn't it?

[RIEMANNISM]

Here im trying to watch Aviation turbojet engine PT-6 vids i get this as a "promoted video" that has 6000 views. The other one was a Honda Eco system or some shit and the other was a GM volt car deal.

[johnstondonley]

@jkienzle25 about 3 months and through a pretty rough New England winter!

[jkienzle25]

How long did this take to construct?