1. Northgate 75KWh Solar Delivery Day: 12/18/2008

2. Boom Lift Materials to Roof

3. Material Layout

4. Roll of Solar Cell Material

5. Tools of the Trade

6. Material Layout

8. Material Adhesion

9. Solar Electric Junction Boxes

10. Northgate 75KWh Solar December 29, 2008

11. Preparing the Inverter Foundation

12. Inverter Foundation

13. Available Hook Up

14. Junction Boxes Mounted

15. Junction Box Up Close

16. Placing the Inverter

17. Inside the Inverter

19. Northgate 75KWh Solar January 9, 2009

20. Inverter Complete

21. Northgate 75KWh Solar January 22, 2009

22. Most of the Cells are Wired

23. One of Several Fuse Boxes

24. Looking across the Cells

25. Northgate 75KWh Solar February 1, 2009

26. Aerial View

28. Power Production Cycle Solar Cells PG&E InverterInverter Northgate

29. Quick Defenitions Inverter – Converts DC current into 110v AC KWh – Killowatt hour = 1000 watts for 1 hour Thin Film Solar – new flexible technology Grid – common term for the electric company Base Load – Minimum idle power (power used when no one is home) At 11:00am on April 2, the meter was activated and energy credits begin. The switch is on!