CSKH - waiting for the sun to shine
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ok .05 THIS week
3rd call the charm!
ah, but they might like to be publicly traded.
I'm sure management would love some stock options lol
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=29053039
Imagine the excitement here if we started seeing ads like this one that I just stumbled on...
http://www.solarcity.com/campaigns/2010/backward/default.aspx
Savings Right From the Sun
Isn't it time you went solar? It's easy with a SolarLease from SolarCity.
You pay no money down—just a low monthly solar payment that dramatically lowers your current electric bill.
Even better, when you generate more solar energy than you use, your electric meter actually spins backward. And the utility company credits you! How satisfying is that?
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I knew this company seemed familiar, search this board for "solarcity". CSKH should try and buy them, that would grow the business!
they did, they told me sorry, call the company, lol
see #msg-60609436
The sell pressure on this stock is obvious, we don't need the TA to confirm it. Just look in the ibox to see the printing press in action for all of 2010
Things have changed how ever. The sellers are no longer pressuring the ask lower and lower to entice buying. The toxic aspect of the dilution has run its course. I have a feeling one good volume day could bust this wide open.
cheers.
Capital Resources and Material Known Facts on Liquidity
In the short-term we do not expect any material change in the mix or relative cost of our capital resources. As of September 30, 2010, we had approximately $5,399,000 in cash and cash equivalents and approximately $1,341,000 of restricted cash held in our name in interest bearing accounts consisting of approximately $285,000 with the lender financing our power generation facility, approximately $1,000,000 held by the lender of our customer as collateral for such loan, approximately $35,000 held by our bank as collateral for our merchant account transactions and approximately $19,000 as collateral for a credit card issued to the Company.
The current economic conditions of the U.S. market, coupled with reductions of solar incentives in Europe have presented challenges to us in generating the revenues and or margins necessary for us to create positive working capital. While our sales pipeline of solar system construction projects continues to grow such projects encumber associated working capital until project completion or earlier customer payment, and our revenues are highly dependent on third party financing for these projects. As a result, revenues remain difficult to predict and we cannot assure shareholders and potential investors that we will be successful in generating positive cash from operations. Knowing that revenues are unpredictable, our strategy has been to manage spending tightly by reducing to a core group of employees in our China and U.S. offices, and to outsource the majority of our construction workforce.
Over the past three years we have sustained losses from operations and have relied on equity financing to provide working capital. We have been actively working with additional potential investors to ensure that we have additional equity available to us as needed. In addition, we are working on sources of project financing as well as asset backed credit facilities. The issues involved with closing and receiving payment on two major projects (Aerojet 1 and Aerojet 2) have severely hindered the Company’s ability to create and leverage working capital. The Company had an outstanding receivable of approximately $9 million dollars from its customer, Solar Tax Partners 1, LLC (“STP1”) on the Aerojet 1 project for the first eight months or 2010 which it originally expected to collect in December, 2009. The impact of waiting for that working capital required the Company to optimize cash on hand and negotiate extended terms with our suppliers resulting in increased accounts payable. The limits on available working capital caused by these events and inability to obtain additional credit from our suppliers impacted the Company’s ability to start and complete projects per original schedules. The inability of our customer to complete its purchase of the Aerojet 2 project, resulting in the Company taking possession of the project and recording it as an asset held for sale caused further constraints on our working capital. The company received payment for the majority of the outstanding receivable due on Aerojet 1 from STP1 in August 2010, allowing the Company to satisfy obligations to suppliers and enabled more effective management working capital. To mitigate future impact on working capital requirements the Company is planning to finance future projects through construction financing or payment terms from the end customer.
We believe the funds generated by the collection of our accounts receivable, notes receivable and costs and estimated earnings in excess of billings on uncompleted contracts, the anticipated revenues of our operations, the sale of our asset held for sale and reductions in operating expenses, continued management of our supply chain, and potential funds available to us through debt and equity financing, are adequate to fund our anticipated cash needs through the next twelve months. We anticipate that we will retain all earnings, if any, to fund future growth in the business. Although we believe we have effectively implemented cash management controls to meet ongoing obligations, there are no assurances that we will not be required to seek additional working capital through debt or equity offerings. If such additional working capital is required, there are no assurances that such financing will be available on favorable terms to the Company, if at all.
from the latest 10Q
http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1210618/000095012310105682/f57284e10vq.htm
mm BMIC still owns the best offer - investors are buying dilution
Great Depression vs. Today - New Deal or Raw Deal?
What gas spike? Americans still hungry for SUVs, pickups
Ford Explorers were one of the hot sellers in February, as demand for SUVs and trucks was very strong despite rising gas prices.Ford Explorers were one of the hot sellers in February, as demand for SUVs and trucks was very strong despite rising gas prices.
By Chris Isidore, senior writer March 1, 2011: 5:35 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Rising gas prices did not keep Americans from buying large pickups and SUVs in February, according to sales results from leading automakers.
Industrywide U.S. auto sales shot up 27% compared to a year ago according to sales tracker Autodata. That's well above forecasts of about a 19% increase. The sales rate was the best since the Cash for Clunkers program, and at that pace, sales could reach 13.4 million vehicles over a full year.
The month was particularly strong for the sale of light trucks, such as pickups, vans and SUVs, even in the face of higher gas prices. Truck sales rose 32% and had the best sales rate since before the financial meltdown.
"We're seeing consumer demand coming back stronger than we anticipated, along with loans and leases becoming easier to get," said Jesse Toprak, analyst with TrueCar.com.
Toprak said the two types of vehicles getting the most attention from buyers are small cars and full-size trucks, demonstrating that while fuel economy is becoming more important, there's still a lot of pent-up demand for larger vehicles.
The increase in gas prices isn't making the impact on buyers it did even a few years ago, said Paul Ballew, chief economist for Nationwide Financial.
"Keep in mind, we reset our expectations. Five years ago, $3 a gallon was 'Oh my goodness.' Now it's more of a norm," he said.
$4 gas? Depends where you live
The real benchmark is more like $4 a gallon, according to Sergio Stiberman, CEO of LeaseTrader.com. He pointed to a survey of those turning in leased trucks, which showed only 16% did so because of high gas prices in February, compared to 78% in summer 2008, when gas hit a record $4 a gallon.
"During the uptick, concerns and complaints heat up when we pass certain price benchmarks, but widespread behavior doesn't actually change until we reach $4.00 per gallon," he said.
AAA's estimate for the average price of a gallon of regular gas stands at $3.375, up 9% in the last month. The price hikes are accelerating as unrest in the Middle East raises crude oil prices, causing a 6% rise in just the last week.
General Motors (GM) reported sales jumped 46% from a year earlier, with strong demand for the Silverado pickup truck leading the way. GM's top-selling pickup posted a 60% gain in sales, and an 84% increase in retail sales to consumers.
"There's a lot of speculation about what fuel prices will do for pickups, but these people are buying for needs," said Don Johnson, GM's vice president, U.S. Sales Operations. "I don't see that slowing."
GM executives said they're also seeing strong demand for small cars. Sales of the Chevrolet Cruze were up 32% compared to year-ago sales of the Cobalt model it replaced. And 46% of overall Chevrolet sales were 4-cylinder models, up 6 percentage points from a year ago.
But Johnson said he doesn't think gas prices at this level will eat into industrywide sales, and that even a steady rise in gas prices should leave sales relatively unscathed. He's more worried about a sharp price spike that will put some buyers on the sidelines.
"Nobody knows what will happen with fuel prices for sure, other than the fact that there will be volatility," he said.
Sales gains were more modest at Ford Motor (F, Fortune 500) and Chrysler Group, but both reported strong sales in some large pickup and SUV models. Ford sales rose 14%, helped by a 139% jump in sales of its redesigned best-selling SUV, the Explorer. The strong demand has resulted in a shortage of Explorers in showrooms.
George Pipas, Ford's director of sales analysis, said that while there was an increase in small-car sales in the first two months of the year, new offerings in the segment likely had as much to do with the shift as gas prices did.
Ken Czubay, Ford's vice president in charge of U.S. sales, said even truck buyers are becoming more conscious about mileage, with 30% of Ford's truck sales now fuel-efficient six-cylinder vehicles rather than the traditional eight-cylinder engine.
Chrysler Group reported a 13% gain in sales, almost entirely due to the 81% jump in sales among its Ram truck brand. The redesigned Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV also posted a 31% increase in sales.
Toyota Motor (TM) reported a 42% jump in sales, despite a new problem with recalls. Improved sales in small cars were a key element, with the Prius hybrid posting a 70% sales increase. The company was also helped by a 57% rise in SUV sales and improved sales of its Tundra full-sized pickup. To top of page
http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/01/news/companies/gas_price_hike_impact_on_february_auto_sales/
xero90, well done! simply amazing! outstanding!
did I miss any adjectives, lol.
Looks to me like the middle east powder keg is going to be the next black swan effect that is going to change everything.
The US uses 20% of the worlds oil. Once the price goes ballistic it won't be long before we've exported oil our cash, then what?
"...Ben Bernanke cannot stop Quantitative Easing. Stopping the monetization of debt means that the United States of America defaults on its obligations. That’s right, the government stops sending out Social Security payments, government workers stop getting checks, companies who do business with the government stop getting paid, Medicare stops - well, you get the picture..."
upside from this low is highly probable. Management finally began landing big jobs last year and it appears to be snowballing. Couple that with friendly financiers whose interests are aligned with shareholders (ie they want to see the company prosper) and we have a recipe for a great investment
The bottom is in.... (averaging up is safer than averaging down)
higher prices for this stock are not far away imo
If this company can land enough work to pay its way and stop using its stock to raise capital, management and its employees with their stock options could make a small fortune. I sure hope they are thinking along these lines. Not many penny companies breakout into profitability and soar but I have a strong feel this will one that does.
$4M in work lined up and underway in Q1, and the Q is not over yet!
The beauty of solar, that most people fail to grasp, is that after the system cost is offset, ITS ALL GRAVY!
no amount of buttering them up will get the desired result.
Maybe I should offer Justeene a $100 bribe, lol
Please contact the Company for this information.
Justeene Blankenship
Action Stock Transfer Corp.
7069 S. Highland Dr., Suite 300
Salt Lake City, UT 84121
(801) 274-1088 office
(801) 274-1099 fax
justblank2000@yahoo.com
www.actionstocktransfer.com
thats crazy, 540k print well below the best bid
definitely an errant trade
because you would have used vinegar? lol
.034(etmm,auto) x .0343(ubss) vol:310k
NITE stayed away from the inside offer all day (and gave UBSS the pole position, lol) What happened to the 3 or 4 MM's that have been lined up for weeks at .035? Do they now see a greater upside potential? Investors will "find" this stock just as soon as starts to move!
10M, 15M, even a 20M volume day is not far off imo.
I just mailed them, lets see what they say
Action Stock Transfer Corporation
7069 S. Highland Drive, Suite 300
Salt Lake City, UT 84121
Telephone: (801) 274-1088
Fax: (801) 274-1099
Email: justblank2000@yahoo.com
http://www.actionstocktransfer.com/
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Good afternoon.
I'm a shareholder of Clear Skies Solar and have been for over a year.
Could you kindly give me the current outstanding share count for CSKH.
Warm Regards
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Did I put enough butter on it, lol.
valid points, however...
Demand is exploding and what is needed today, more of will be need tomorrow. Think population....
"...Anyone who examines world population growth over the past two centuries certainly must be astounded, and quite possibly alarmed. The global population reached one billion in 1804. In 1927, some 123 years later, it passed two billion. Sixty years later, in 1987, the world population was five billion, and 12 years later, in October 1999, it is estimated to have passed six billion. Small wonder that many are concerned about what this bodes for our future. Due to the momentum represented by steeply pyramidal age distributions, population growth surely will continue for one to several generations. Most of that growth will occur in developing nations. An eventual world population of 8-12 billion is expected by the end of the century..."
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/09/29/29greenwire-study-worlds-peak-coal-moment-has-arrived-70121.html
World's 'Peak Coal' Moment Has Arrived
September 29, 2010
Two researchers say so. In a peer-reviewed article published in the journal Energy, they write that the world will hit "peak coal" production next year or shortly thereafter, and then mining would begin a long, steep decline.
Bottom line, say the paper's co-authors, Tadeusz Patzek, a University of Texas engineering professor, and Greg Croft, a St. Mary's College of California earth science professor, is that the 7 billion tons of coal the world is now mining and burning each year is about the best it can do.
"Our ability to produce this resource at 8 billion tons per year, in my mind, is a dream," Patzek said.
The pair's prediction is based on the "Hubbert Cycle," the resource-depletion theory that American geophysicist M. King Hubbert used in the 1950s to correctly forecast that U.S. oil production would peak two decades later.
Patzek predicts coal will peak not because supplies are running out but because the remaining deposits are increasingly difficult to mine. Alaska's North Slope, for example, has coal reserves that rival those of the continental United States, but turning that coal into energy would be practically impossible, Patzek argues.
"It would take 10 or 11 of the largest coal terminals on the Earth operating 24-7, 365 to load ships above the Arctic Circle during the polar night," he said.
Russia, China and other energy consumers face similar logistical difficulties with coal, Patzek said.
And while global supplies are set to trail off, the stage is set for demand to spike, Patzek said. U.S. consumers use slightly less than 1 billion tons of coal annually, the Chinese use an estimated 3.5 billion tons, and emerging energy giants like India and Indonesia are hungry for more.
"In the past, any time we demanded something, we got it. Well, this time around, it may be different," Patzek said. "The message of this paper is that we really have to be a little bit smarter and less energy-intensive."
Patzek and Croft's peak-coal prediction is being contradicted by government economists and industry groups.
The federal Energy Information Agency estimates the United States alone has about 260 billion tons of recoverable coal, enough to support current consumption levels for at least two centuries, said George Warholic, an EIA coal economist.
And the National Mining Association said the United States is sitting on enough recoverable coal to power the country for the next 440 years. U.S. coal production dipped last year, but that was not because of a shortage of available reserves, spokeswoman Carol Raulston said.
"We mine based on demand, and when the economy went down, coal production went down by about 9 percent as well," she said.
But as the economy reheats and demand rises, U.S. coal companies will still be sitting on plenty of viable reserves, Raulston said.
A foggy crystal ball?
So how can the two camps be so far apart?
For starters, they are making forecasts using different methodologies. The Hubbert cycle analysis looks at past production trends to predict future results. EIA and the mining trade group prefer to measure current consumption rates against estimated future reserves.
But much of the disparity comes because there are too many variables contributing to coal production to make precise predictions, said Jerry Taylor, a resource economist and senior fellow at the libertarian CATO Institute.
New mining technology could boost production by making previously untouchable reserves cheap to recover, Taylor said. Alternatively, coal production would drop if an influx of cheap oil and natural gas curbed demand, he said.
Taylor noted that three years ago there was a near consensus that natural gas prices were set to spike because recoverable U.S. pools were running low. Then hydraulic fracturing -- a technology that uses liquid injections to unleash gas -- became affordable, and gas prices have fallen by nearly a third since the start of 2010.
"History is fraught with forecasting failure. As a whole, its record is abysmal," Taylor said. "That doesn't mean we shouldn't forecast; you just have to realize these forecasts are extremely difficult to make."
While Patzek and Croft's plug for energy efficiency and rapid development of renewable energy sources please green groups, the environmental community may find some of his team's other conclusions more unsettling.
Namely, they are skeptical about emissions from burning fossil fuels causing catastrophic climate change.
The paper's authors accept the science connecting human greenhouse gas emissions to global warming, but the world's remaining coal "is not enough to really mess up our climate," Croft said.
The remaining accessible fossil fuel stores only contain enough carbon to raise global temperatures by about 0.8 degrees Celsius, said Croft, who funded the study through his University of California, Berkeley, graduate student fellowship.
Croft took aim at projections from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that assume much larger coal supplies. "That 2-degree rise won't happen," Croft said, making reference to a scenario that the U.N. panel said would be a global catastrophe.
Therefore, Croft said, a cap-and-trade law for carbon emissions is unnecessary, and investment in technology to capture carbon from coal-fired power plants is a waste of resources. Instead, policy should focus on incentives for renewable energy and possibly a carbon tax to promote efficiency, he said.
Enviro groups call for action
Environmentalists take issue with that point.
"On some level it's nice to think that maybe the worst-case scenario isn't as likely as some thought, but I would certainly never count on this to protect us from runaway climate change," said Barbara Freese, a senior coal policy analyst for the Union of Concerned Scientists. "We need to be aware of that risk and tackle it head on."
Freese said she could not judge whether the peak-coal prediction was accurate without more analysis but that the study should prompt policymakers to question some of their assumptions about the fossil fuel.
"We spend a lot of time talking about whether we can rely on renewables and efficiency and whether that's practical and affordable, but we've kind of given a pass to coal proponents," she said. "We need to see evidence that we have the economically recoverable reserves."
I think tradinguru has a valid point. Although a 250M AS (with the 100:1 r/s) is a higher number than the 100M AS (with the 500:1 r/s), relative to the OS's after the split, the 100M AS results in a greater dilution to investors that hold through the RS and see the entire AS eventually finding its way into the OS.
Looking at the market capitalization of the company however its a different story. The more the OS increases the less the pps can rise to give a realistic market cap. So the lower AS would mean a greater possibility of the pps attaining a higher value.
Personally I'd take the 100:1 over the 500:1 with their respective AS:'s The AS is always changed by management at their whim anyway and I'm sure that what ever it is, it will be upped in the future, again and again, all the way back to 7B (and them some if need be)
coal is ~50% of the US's electric generation, and it won't be going down in price. Actually its breaking out to the upside this week!
"...In 2009, less than 1% of the Nation's electricity was from solar power..." (lots of room for growth here)
http://www.eia.doe.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=electricity_in_the_united_states
How valuable will solar be went Oil prices go vertical in a big way?
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From 2005 to 2009, Saudis used about 2.3 million barrels daily, leaving about 8.3 million barrels for export. Only if Saudi Arabia continues to provide at least this much oil to international markets could the world even meet its anticipated low-end oil needs. This is not likely to occur. The Saudi royals have expressed reluctance to raise output much above 10 million barrels per day, fearing damage to their remaining fields and so a decline in future income for their many progeny. At the same time, rising domestic demand is expected to consume an ever-increasing share of Saudi Arabia’s net output. In April 2010, the chief executive officer of state-owned Saudi Aramco, Khalid al-Falih, predicted that domestic consumption could reach a staggering 8.3 million barrels per day by 2028, leaving only a few million barrels for export and ensuring that, if the world can’t switch to other energy sources, there will be petroleum starvation.
In other words, if one traces a reasonable trajectory from current developments in the Middle East, the handwriting is already on the wall. Since no other area is capable of replacing the Middle East as the world’s premier oil exporter, the oil economy will shrivel -- and with it, the global economy as a whole.
Consider the recent rise in the price of oil just a faint and early tremor heralding the oilquake to come. Oil won’t disappear from international markets, but in the coming decades it will never reach the volumes needed to satisfy projected world demand, which means that, sooner rather than later, scarcity will become the dominant market condition. Only the rapid development of alternative sources of energy and a dramatic reduction in oil consumption might spare the world the most severe economic repercussions.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175362/tomgram:_michael_klare,_oilquake_in_the_middle_east/#more
check this out, solar sailing!
This should be the companies yacht to wine and dine clients, lol.
pressure is building under the lid here, at some point this pot is going to boil!
mooooo, lol.
funny how they left that out.
They can't hold more than 5% so
say the OS is 200M, 5% is 10M, 4M at .03, and another 7M at ???
They would have to sell a million shares to exercise all those warrants. But what is the incentive to exercise them now. I'd wait until the pps is north of .12 (or something like that) and then exercise them. Its the warrants that sweetened the 4M now at .03 deal imo.
They could have bought 4M at .03 in the open market last week. Somehow I don't think a 4M buy would have moved the pps the way this trades.
at least .03 is very close to the market so there should be little reason to selloff tomorrow. Also the "investors" didn't get a discount so selling at say .035 is not much of a return on their investment. There is still a chance the company could give investors a reason to bid up this stock even if they've been unlucky so far.
Only if their accredited investors wants to sell north of .12 will I be happy.
$15M/year in revenues is not enough I guess
On the bright side its not a toxic convertible debenture note, so I guess we should be ecstatic, lol.
One can see why shorting penny stocks is really the way to go as these type of company's basically live off selling freely minted shares.
Will this chart ever turn up in the face of never ending dilution?
Will My Meter Really Spin Backwards?
YES! Any time your PV system is producing more power than your home is using, your electrical service meter will physically spin backwards. This is what’s called “net metering”, which allows us to sell power back to the utility at retail rates. This does not apply to “off-grid” systems since they are not hooked up to a utility.
What Incentives Are in Place for Solar Energy Systems?
Homeowner’s can take advantage of a variety of federal, state, and local incentives to help make solar more affordable. Here is a breakdown of the most current federal and state incentives. Please contact us to find out if any additional incentives exist in your local area.
Federal – Applicable to Solar Electric (PV) and Solar Hot Water (SHW) Systems:
* Homeowner’s will receive a Residential Income Tax Credit of 30% of the total installed system cost. This incentive is available until 2016 and can be “carried over” each year until it is completely used up, or until 2016, whichever comes first.
* Businesses can take advantage of either a Renewable Energy Grant or a Tax Credit, each of 30% of the total installed system cost. Applications must be submitted by 10/1/2011 and are only applicable to commercial, industrial, and agricultural sectors. Payment of the grant will be made within 60 days of the grant application date or the date the system is placed in service, whichever is later.
What is a Renewable Energy Certificate or REC?
Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), also known as Carbon Credits, Green tags, Renewable Energy Credits, or Tradable Renewable Certificates (TRCs), are tradable, non-tangible energy commodities in the United States that represent proof that 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity was generated from an eligible renewable energy resource.
What does this mean for your installation? It means that you can sell the "green attributes" of the power you're producing with your PV system to someone else. If you've heard of companies like Whole Foods or New Belgium Brewing going "100% Wind Powered," they haven't installed lots of turbines, they've bought RECs to offset their usage. By selling your RECs on the open market you're allowing other companies to do the same with solar power. Locally, RECs are collected or aggregated by the NW Solar Cooperative. Click on their name to find out more about their program.
How Long Does a Solar Energy System Last?
The lifetime of a solar energy system varies depending on the technology and the climate the equipment is placed in. Thanks to our mild weather, we should see the lives extended somewhat. In general, solar electric panels should produce power for 30-50 years. Most manufacturers warranty the power output for 25 years, but most people agree that they will continue producing well beyond that point. For solar hot water, collectors traditionally have ten year warranties and are expected to last about 15-20 years. In most cases, the balance of system (BOS) components will need to be replaced at some point during the life of the system. This includes equipment such as pumps, automatic valves, inverters, and some storage tanks. A&R Solar offers an industry-leading 5-year craftsmanship warranty on all of its solar installations.
How Much Maintenance is Required?
Solar energy systems require very little maintenance, and will continue to operate effectively even with no maintenance. If you would like to see your system consistently operate at its maximum potential, the following can be performed on an on-going basis:
* Hose off panels and collectors approximately 1-2 times per year. This can significantly increase performance if large amounts of pollen, dirt, or debris has accumulated.
* Regularly monitor your system's production, looking for any significant changes in output.
* It can be a good idea to completely drain and refill your solar hot water system with new antifreeze solution every five years. A&R Solar offers flat fee service calls to customers in our service territory.
How do I get started?
Give us a call. We'll ask you some questions about your home or business, and even give you a preliminary site analysis over the phone using satellite imagery. We can walk you through how solar might help you achieve your goals, and help you set a budget.
Once we've gathered some of this basic information we schedule a time to come out to look at your site to measure your solar resource, look at existing site conditions, and let you know more about how our company operates. After that we'll be able to design a system that specifically meets your needs. So go ahead and give us a call! 800-714-1834 or e-mail us.
This should be on the companies website!
Satellite based monitoring
SPYCE (Satellite Photovoltaic Yield Control & Evaluation) is based on more than ten years of research by well-known European institutions. The SPYCE methodology was developed by the EU project PVSAT. Some of SPYCE's features are: Automatic failure detection and alarm dramatically minimizes any down time. Failures may be detected before expiry of warranty. No on-site radiation measurements are required. The SPYCE website allows access to the system's yields, reference values and analyses at any time. SPYCE is based on the latest EU research results. Data from the latest generation of weather satellites is employed. Data flow and the web portal are adaptable to the requirements of different manufacturers of PV systems and inverters. SPYCE is a service designed and provided by METEOTEST, a Swiss company, internationally known for its meteorological expertise. METEOTEST is independent of PV system manufacturers.
http://www.pvresources.com/en/monitoring.php
SPYCE monitors your PV system
> Logging: A data logger registers your PV system’s hourly yields. The data is sent to the main SPYCE server daily.
> Monitoring: Solar radiation at your site is determined from satellite data. Based on radiation, your PV system’s reference yield is calculated.
> Internet platform: All yields, reference values and analyses of your PV system can be accessed via the SPYCE website.
> Alarm: If your PV system is not producing what it should, you are alerted by e-mail or SMS and informed about the probable reasons.
Offers for PV trade
> SPYCE Reseller, Basic, Portal, Plugin: Provide your clients with an enhanced service and added value. Special SPYCE versions are now available for different PV industry requirements, e.g. inverter manufacturers, system providers or system installers.
http://www.spyce.ch
http://www.google.com/search?q=Satellite+based+solar+monitoring
http://www.google.com/search?q=solar+monitoring+software
Looks like XtraX is behind the curve to me.
There are plenty of solar monitor apps out there to choose from. I hope they are not wasting money on something that will cost a lot of overhead (ceo salaries, etc, lol)
11/11/2008 09:01 AM
Clear Skies Solar Launches Carbon 612 Corporation
Clear Skies Solar (OTCBB:CSKH), a developer of solar energy products in the U.S. and abroad, announced the launch of Carbon 612 Corporation, a subsidiary which was created to commercialize the company's proprietary technologies.
Carbon 612 will offer full-service energy monitoring internationally via its in-house designed and produced XTRAX® system, a patented device that provides accurate readings of energy produced by a solar photovoltaic system.
As net metering programs become increasingly popular across the U.S., verifying exact solar energy production levels has become similarly important as a means of legitimatizing the renewable energy credit programs.
The XTRAX® program is the first of its kind to handle the trading of carbon credits, renewable energy credits (RECs) and the comprehensive billing procedures associated with this service. Currently, energy production from sub-100 kilowatt solar installations are only estimated, leaving carbon credit aggregators with unverified production values that can result in substantial financial loss for the owner of the system. With Carbon 612's XTRAX®, production values can be guaranteed to be accurate, taking any uncertainties out of the equation.
"The XTRAX® system will revolutionize energy monitoring. Currently, in the U.S. and abroad there's no technology in place that monitors the exact amount of energy produced by a solar PV system. This often causes a disconnect between the utility companies and the solar energy system when it comes to energy credit distribution. With XTRAX®, we'll no longer have that problem," says Ezra Green, Chairman and CEO.
XTRAX® was designed to maximize data management efficiency by removing all the unnecessary fields and concentrating solely on production values. Because XTRAX® transmits on a cellular phone frequency as well as satellite, clients are guaranteed an unprecedented level of reliability at an extremely affordable price. The comprehensive XTRAX® program will be the first of its kind in the U.S. that will fully support the energy production industry.
The XTRAX® hardware was conceived, designed and built in its entirety in-house which makes the cost of the unit, designed specifically for the mass markets, particularly low. The XTRAX® unit and Carbon 612's entire XTRAX® program are designed specifically for the sub-100KW market, targeting the underserved small residential and commercial markets. The advantage of XTRAX® is its ability to autonomously monitor monthly output and distribute verified data accordingly, compiling and preparing it ready for trade.
Among the unique elements of the Carbon 612 plan is that customers will incur no out-of-pocket expenses for XTRAX® monitoring. This is made possible though Carbon 612's model of producing revenues through monthly monitoring fees supported entirely by RECs or carbon credits. Additional revenues will be generated through XTRAX® licensing fees paid by remediation companies, pollution control authorities, demand reduction programs, water management, oil production and general monitoring services.
With over 100,000 solar PV installations that produce fewer than 120,000 KWhs a year, the annual market for XTRAX® in the U.S. exceeds $20 million in monitoring and support fees. The XTRAX® technology in its entirety will open up the billion dollar market previously unavailable through current methods due to the high cost of support. Additionally, the XTRAX® system can also provide monitoring of energy production from wind, solar-thermal, geo-thermal, tidal and other types of facilities and installations that are fossil-fuel independent.
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We had no revenue in either three month period ended September 30, 2010 or 2009, nor since inception. While we had no selling expenses in either of these periods our general and administrative expenses were $79,769 for the three months ended September 30, 2010 compared to $8,192 in the three months ended September 30, 2009. The increase of $71,577 is largely accounted for by increases in accounting fees of $16,000, in salaries of $7,000, legal fees of $30,000, outside laboratory fees of $9,000 and rent of $3,000.
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Real-time monitoring:
We use Enphase Enlighten and SunPower to monitor and analyze the performance of systems we have installed.
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SunPower remote monitoring
Performance Monitoring Services
Your dealer can also monitor your system for you remotely to ensure your system is performing optimally. If your system is not producing energy, your dealer will receive an automatic notification and can diagnose problems quickly before making a service call, saving you time and money.
Monitoring On-The-Go
Our monitoring application for the iPhone™ or iPod touch® mobile device lets you access your information wherever you are and share your SunPower experience with friends.
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Enphase Enlighten enables a new level of performance, reliability and management for solar energy installations. Enlighten is integrated into the Enphase Microinverter System and provides unprecedented visibility into the performance of every solar module. Upon logging in to the online portal, home owners and installers get an at-a-glance view of the status their entire system is performing as well as provide visual alerts for anything that requires attention.
- Per-Module Monitoring
The Enphase 24/7 monitoring service ensures optimal uptime. System owners and installers can rest assured that Enlighten is monitoring their installation and will notify them of any issues that need attention.
- Plug-and-Play Installation
Enphase Energy's per-module monitoring technology is integrated into the micro inverter which means that you do not need to purchase or install a bolt-on or stand-alone third-party monitoring tool. The Enphase Envoy (EMU) communications gateway plugs into any standard AC outlet and collects micro-inverter performance information over the existing power line. No additional wiring is required. By plugging the Ethernet cable of the Envoy into a broadband router, performance data is automatically transmitted to Enlighten using the site’s existing internet connection, further simplifying installation.
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.033 (AUTO,ETMM) .0335 (NITE) vol: 370k
We're still looking at a bullish flag pattern (flag up the pole) and the fast ADX (green) has retraced and now has plenty of room to run. All we need is spark. 6 PR's in 30days, apparently not one on them supplied the necessary spark. Will the next one? or can this just explode on its own now? Lots of great things happening if we can believe the recent spat of PR's, $4M in jobs, all in various stages (design, permit, funding, actually started, etc) --- then ANY and ALL sellers should just step aside, why sell here when more coin can be made selling LATER.
The RS was too large here.
another company succumbed to shareholder outrage and lowered the proposed split from 500:1 to 100:1
Jim should have considered that to keep some morale alive in his shareholder base imo
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