Welcome to the RE pages of Cor van de Water!
I am no longer living in the house shown. But I will maintain these pages as a source of information for you. I am very enthusiastic about RE (Renewable Energy), positively biased by the Sun!. That is the reason I started these pages at October 23, 1998 and that I am loading these pages with Renewable Energy info, Energy saving hints and Photovoltaic Solar Electricity generation designs, to share the knowledge with you and promote RE! Technical stuff - electronics, software - and 'homebrew' guides are what I aim for, as I am technical oriented, want to do everything myself and I am backed by a degree in Electrical Engineering. What about savings? Well, Renewable Energy saves the environment a lot of waste, saves our children a lot of trouble and it may save us already a lot of money after the initial investment. But what the heck - it is fun as a hobby and gives you a good feeling! I have taken photographs to present the details of installation of the Solar Panels (on my suburban house), the layout of the system, the connection and construction of the inverter, the basics of an inverter and waveforms and so on ..... Everything that could help to get a good picture of how to generate your own electricity and spin your power meter backwards. Best of all: you save the environment tons of exhaust! Weather is not always good for solar power here in the Netherlands, but the first summer (1999) has rewarded me with a lot of sun! Summer 2000 was a little less, but now I've got hot water as well! You can react via e-mail: Cor_van_de_Water@hotmail.com if you want to discuss the presented info with me.
This is how my solar roof looks with PV panels and hot water.
Below are links to RE organisations (great sources of info!) and
links to my other pages (the ones starting with 'My').
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Visit 'My Solar Projects' again, to see how my installation has grow! I have installed 3000 Watt solar power, grid-connected photovoltaic! The PV panels on my roof got company from a Solar Collector (water heating panel) to heat a boiler! The electricity meter is already spinning backwards, because I have received an inverter for testing, so I can already earn the Solar energy until my own inverter design is mature enough to be tested! Check out 'My Solar production statistics' page to see the energy that the sun delivered for free (daily meter readings for several years). 
My family: Yorick, Cor, Petra and Arike van de Water (old picture) 
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