Last week I put out a post based on a CBC article about a school in Saskatchewan which generated a lot of interesting discussion about the economics/merits of a solar flower vs rooftop solar. I had noticed the reporter used the term microgrid in describing this project but thought that was perhaps creative license because […]
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Inconceivable!! A line I love to use from The Princess Bride when seeing something that makes no sense. We’ve been working at more precise ways to determine shading and clipping losses in actual performance of PV systems that traditional modeling and performance analysis misses.This week we were doing some analysis for a customer with underperformance
In a recent search through endless online information, I couldn’t find any articles where someone had looked at the Tragedy of the Commons and our public electric utilities. I thought I might write one. Never heard of the Tragedy of the Commons? This is a brief but dense summary from Wikipedia “The tragedy of the
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Happy International Women’s day! Today we celebrate all those who identify as women, their achievements, passions, and contributions they make each and every day. We especially want to thank the wonderful, hardworking and dedicated women of Boxbrite. Thank you for all you do, we wouldn’t be the same without you.
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When seven Tesla solar systems caught fire on Walmart stores, it made the national news and led to a lawsuit; 240 systems were subsequently removed. Why do some problems make the news and others don’t? Problems that can cause major issues barely make the news. At Boxbrite Technologies, our focus is making sure that investments
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Last week I did two things I’d like to talk about: One, I watched the movie Don’t Look Up, a new Netflix Original; and two, I looked at some public solar power systems. The movie is a satire about climate change, and our company monitors the solar systems that are intended to help solve that
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WATERLOO REGION – Nine months after permanently moving to home-centred offices, a local solar tech start-up is using the workspaces at the Accelerator Centre to supplement its commitment to virtual space. Boxbrite Technologies joined the Accelerator Centre’s TD Sustainable Future Lab this month. In October 2020, the company’s team photo was taken onsite at evolv1,
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We’ve been having discussions about leadership in our virtual offices lately. Sometimes these discussions happen in one-on-one meetings, but sometimes they occur in our weekly tea break on Friday afternoons. “What do you think of adding the word ‘leader’ to our job positions?” @LeonKehl asked us one Friday at our team tea break. Some of
“Ontario social entrepreneur works to automate monitoring of solar systems Leon Kehl has worked for himself for almost 28 years, but only recently stopped flinching when people would ask him if he was a businessman. “Entrepreneur, yes. Businessman no,” he said. “My transformation over the last two years is embracing the label of being a
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Boxbrite Technologies is a relationship-based solar tech company that has typically relied on close trusted relationships, often meeting in person with clients. We also use Agile methodology, which emphasizes the importance of face-to-face communications and trusted relationships. In my last article, I wrote about refactoring the workplace, and how Boxbrite moved permanently to home-centred offices.
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