More wave power options

Santa Cruz Co. has a few places that use photovoltaic.  Our sewage treatment pland off Bay st is solar, New leaf in Felton is solar, West Marine off hwy1 is solar.  I 5 different solar panels that when in use produced 15amps that ran a small 500W inverter to power TV stereo and a lamp.
  Little off topic I know, but I like solar!

I'm off the wave energy topic here, tho' am following it closely, since I live near Fort Bragg. About solar, I've been wanting to start with a small solar carport or roof array (grid connected, reverseable metering and maybe no batteries) that I can add onto later (modular system) for our family home.

It's just that with so many solar options/technologies around, it's a bit overwhelming about where to start, and it just doesn't seem to pay off for a small family system so far.  Anyone in the group have a solar system that they are happy with that is affordable?  Links where we can research?  Thanks,  -Matt

Me too ... I started lately to look for this info but haven't gotten very far.

-Allen

Swells are larger offshore than inshore, see map: http://www.wunderground.com/MAR/PZ/550.html?map=wave#map
They'll probably put them at least 10-20 miles out.  Over that distance the losses in the lines will be pretty small.

This is a huge array on a levee of one of our sewage treatment ponds.  Itmakes around 3/4 of a megawatt.  In person, this thing looks enormous

IT,S A MEGAWATT SYSTEM THAT I BUILT AFTTER BUILDING THAT SYSTEM SOMEONE STOLE  SOME OF THE MODULAR .

polepole IF YOU HAVE ANY ? CONTACT ME

TROY

We have had theft at all of our solar unit...don't worry Troy...we fixed it!  How the hell are you?

Yeah - I was gonna say Troy is the man to talk to....but he beat me to it!

Good to hear from ya, Troy!

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6223220.html

Looks like PG&E is getting serious about wave power.

Pacific Gas & Electric, the large Northern California utility, has signed a power purchase agreement with Finavera Renewables for 2 megawatts of electricity that will come from a wave farm, which Finavera will build 2.5 miles off the coast near California's Humboldt County.

Ideally, the wave farm will start producing power in 2012. It will offset 245 tons of carbon dioxide annually, and if it succeeds, Finavera will expand the wave farm to 100 megawatts.