John Sarter
Co Chairman and Chapter Liaison to PHAUS National
Passive House Alliance, US. SF Chapter, (affiliated with US DOE)
Website:
http://www.OffTheGridDesign.org
Twitter:
Sarterfish
Areas of Expertise:
Clean Energy, Climate Change, Demand Side Management, Electric Vehicles, Energy Economics, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Energy Storage, Innovation, R&D, Renewables, Solar, TransportationAdditional Areas of Expertise:
Microgrid Building System Design and Development
Founder at Microgrid Development Group, SF Bay Area
CEO at Off The Grid Design, LLC
www.OffTheGridDesign.org
Co-Chairman, PHAUS-SF
www.Phaus.org
Personal Summary:
Facilitating a local and worldwide synergy of suppliers, builders, architects, planners, educators, and visionaries committed to Creating a Sustainable Future for ourselves and generations to come.
My goal is to promote and create, encourage and facilitate, the concepts and realities of “sustainable planning and architecture for living” in such a way as to reduce individuals’ and communities’ “footprint” on the earth. To reduce consumption of finite resources in order to enable a more sustainable and inhabitable future for ourselves and our generations to come. To provide comfort and shelter, a new sustainable luxury, in such a way as to reduce our tendencies as a culture and a species toward constantly increasing demands on our remaining natural resources.
Off The Grid Design Summary:
Off The Grid Design and partners are designing and developing net positive energy microgrid buildings. These structures are capable of complete islanding, but would perhaps be better utilized as integrated co generators within a community microgrid, making them essentially "community microgrid ready". Currently, excess generation will be used for building integrated EV systems, until such time as policy and regulation encourages such over generation and transference to the grid. EV integration will remain a focus of our structures, as the EV's will also soon be "mobile energy storage devices", and an integral part of the energy storage systems on a building, and community level. Here is a link to one of our projects;
https://www.honestbuildings.com/sol-built-alpha/?mode=public#.UZVJSWOnbD0
Specialties:
Planning and architecture, affordable high efficiency design and construction, energy use analysis and reduction; consulting and retrofitting for existing homes and commercial structures; Design and development of site based co-generation facilities, energy storage, and integrated EV transportation infrastructure.
Recent Comments by John Sarter
- "I think large scale renewable projects have their place in the mix, for the next five to ten years or so. There is unfortunately still the issues not "
What Is The solar companies Future of Solar Energy? - "After reading through the various posts here from various sectors there seems to be some vague consensus;
1. Make your end use of energy as efficie"
Should U.S. Climate Policy Focus More on Innovation? - "Scott, I completely agree...there is no way to turn back the clock, nor should there be. We are entering into a newly developing energy paradigm in wh"
Clean, Reliable, Affordable….can energy policy deal with its own increasing demands? - "This is great to hear. Yes I agree that any microgrid development should be an "open market", encouraging the IOU's to participate and compete equally"
Are Microgrids the Answer to the Increasing Complexity of Electricity Markets? - "Christopher Sand's observations and comments hit the nail on the head. The main issue is not at all about the pipeline. The problem is the precedent t"
The Keystone Pipeline Controversy: What’s Really At Stake? - "Dave,
The two alternatives you propose would both likely have the net effect of moving microgrid development forward, depending of course on the ra"
Are Microgrids the Answer to the Increasing Complexity of Electricity Markets? - "It appears the link I placed to the article in the IEEE Xplore magazine was broken, I will try again
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Are Microgrids the Answer to the Increasing Complexity of Electricity Markets? - ""
Are Microgrids the Answer to the Increasing Complexity of Electricity Markets?