Planetenergynow

After more than a decade in business and seven years since the first website, we're so excited to announce our new website www.planetenergynow.com thanks to the amazing Danilo Krahl. It's updated with the work we've been doing the past 10 years, our evolution and our projects, as well as integrating information about Holistic Management and of course Curly Creek Ranch. And we promise to be better about keeping it up to date! Check it out and let us know what you think! Spanish and Basque versions coming soon.

www.planetenergynow.com

We're very excited to share our progress with the new lithium ion battery bank we installed last month.

We had a couple of weeks of testing to make sure we had the settings right so they worked best within our existing system, which once established saw two full days without any generator use...a first for us! That was followed by eight days of snow and several weeks of heavy rain, bringing nearly 500mm of precipitation in 20 days, which meant little solar radiation as well.

But we're exceptionally pleased to show that we've now gone nine days (hopefully 10-12 based on the weather predictions) without any generator use at all. You can see on the very sunny days we boosted our consumption extensively to take advantage of the free resource. Not bad at all considering we've been experiencing winter-like conditions since they were installed! Great timing too as petrol prices are soaring.

Happy holidays everyone!

So excited about our new lithium ion battery bank that is now up and running. With this investment, replacing the gel batteries we had before with 6x more energy storage, we'll be 99%+ powered by renewable energy. We were already 90% but this upgrade will take us the rest of the way and amortised in just a year (or less, considering how quickly oil prices are rising).

We didn't mean for the new installation to line up with but it's a nice coincidence!

After seven years, we brought down the wind turbine for some long overdue maintenance, and now we've got to get it back up, just in time for winter.

We've been quiet over here at PE for a while but we've got some important news to share soon, so keep an eye out!

No, it's not a recreation of the famous WWII (or was it Korean War) photo and statue, it's wind turbine maintenance day! All hands on deck! Thank god the neighbours and cousin came to help. It's expected to rain a lot tomorrow so the clock is ticking...

Planetenergynow updated their address.