Solar Tour #3 Grid Intertied Solar PV plus Geothermal Heating

Participants will gather and carpool to the home of Terra Nova Community, a Peaceworks member household, that, in August, 2008, installed a photovoltaic array and the equipment to produce alternating current and to tie their home electricity-generating system to the grid, allowing excess power to feed the grid and, in effect, turn their meter backwards. In the summer of 2009, they installed a ground-source heat pump at their adjacent house. The tour will take no more than one hour, allowing participants to return in time for the next workshop.