Jul 26 2010
The high cost of farming did not deter Trey Pippin from trying out new ideas who is a South Georgia farmer and was growing pecan trees and harvesting nuts all these years has recently moved into starting a solar farm to garner clean energy. Incidentally the state of Georgia is yet to tap the full potential of renewable solar energy that does not release greenhouse gases.
Pippin has installed a total number of 836 solar panels in his farm to harvest solar energy. The harvested energy is stored in batteries as DC power and converted into AC power for the purpose of feeding into the grid which can easily meet the electric power requirement of 40 homes in the vicinity.
Solar Panel
While Pippin just termed his efforts, as simple as taking sunlight to convert into electric energy, Bud Peterson Georgia Tech President, who actually formulated Pippin’s solar farm called Pippin’s effort of producing renewable energy, a good example because Pippin was never known to any type of renewable energy production before.
On talking about his decision of starting a solar farm Pippin said that he has ventured into a proven technology that can continue to exist for as long as 25 to 30 years and meets its running expenses from the electricity produced and he was optimistic about his farm breaking even in 2 to 3 years time.
It is expected that this solar farm of Pippin will serve as a model to enthuse others to start more such alternative energy projects.
Source: http://www.gatech.edu/