November 14, 2011

Iowa’s first community-owned solar garden is now generating electricity! Your solar module began producing clean, renewable power for the cooperative last week. Watch for your first actual monthly production credit on the December bill* ... and remember, power production will increase as the days get longer.

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Inverter shed houses two Germanengineered, SMA Sunny Boy inverters to convert DC to AC. There’s room in the shed for more inverters as the solar garden expands.

Sixty solar modules (six per array) are now online. Two empty array racks (front, right) are in place for twelve additional modules. These are now available for $500 per module. Contact FEC for details. As you can see, there’s plenty of space to expand the solar garden. We’ll be adding more arrays in the future. FEC Solar Garden Owners (November 2011) Array #1 Myron Hochstedler Tom Bailey Ed Lindsey Scott & Beth Swartzendruber Walter Beachy Vince Yoder

Array #2 Mike Brenneman Clarence Leichty Lance Brenneman Mike & Midge Brenneman Bill Kinneer Rex Miller

Array #3 Firman Hershberger Stan Yoder/Yoder Auction Service Dale Britton Robert Miller Rob & Cindy Miller James Graham

Array #4 Gary & Donna Yoder Michael Welsh Ken Bender Galen Graber Paul Schumann Roger & Sally Stutsman

Array #7 Maria Urice Ruth Fountain Ed Gingerich Errol Bontrager Linton Weaver Jacob Schrock

Array #8 Phil Winborn Wilmer Yoder Daniel Bender Jon Gingerich John Mast Jeff Whetsone

Array #9 Reg & Cheryne Yoder Patrick Melroy Dick Yoder-Short J. Scott & Nancy Ritter David Beachy Milford Yoder

Array #10 Keith Troyer/ Troyer Farms Steve Groenewold Doug Slaubaugh Warren McKenna Marvin & Betsy Slabaugh Roger Stutzman

Array #5 Jessica Stutsman Dean Steckly Calvin M. Yoder John Mark King Galen Yoder Daniel Keith Yoder

Array #6 Bruce Bock John Schrock Robert Shaw Jamey Errthum Laurel Schlabaugh Donovan Bender

Coming Soon ... Web interface to track energy production in real time. We’ll let you know when it’s online.

*Since there won’t be a full month of production in November, you’ll receive a $3 credit this month.