Site Based Energy
Site-Based Energy. I’m Greg Martin as Line On Agriculture presents the Harvest Clean Energy Report.
Energy is something we can take for granted. It is easy to reach down to that wall plug and get all the power we need. But what is that wall plug weren’t there and you were miles from any kind of power source. Paul Conrad is the President of Site Based Energy based in Haley, Idaho.
CONRAD: Site Based Energy is another way of discussing distributed generation. We’re in the business of energy services and energy solutions, leveraging the politics and money at hand to help people improve their operations. Renewable energy is our focus. Energy efficiency is step one of implementing renewable energy.
They do that with feasibility studies and audits and strategic management plans for various farming operations to improve their generation and usage of renewable energy. One of the solutions is on-site generation of power.
CONRAD: So when we originally started our company I had a need for mobile, renewable power and communications because we were doing remote job sites and we didn’t want to be toting fuels around. So we built something. That basically began the evolution process of the creation of the company just going; “You know what? We know construction, we know development, we know asset management, we know financing. Let’s pull all these things together and get into the energy sector.” So up starts Site Based Energy.
The whole thing started with what Conrad calls their “18-thousand pound business card.” It’s a trailer that provides clean, renewable power for anything from a job site to a music concert in the park.
CONRAD: Most instances here we can power up just about anything you can throw at us when it comes to music and again that’s why we call it our “18-thousand pound business card.” We just go running around PR wise. It is a 3.4 kilowatt production with a 400 watt wind turbine on it. The wind doesn’t really do a whole heck of a lot for us but we’ve got a lot of PV. I believe that’s 16 200 some watt panels on the roof.
They have been contracted by the College of Southern Idaho to build one of these mobile units for them. Conrad says they biggest key to the unit is it’s energy storage capacity.
CONRAD: We have a lot of battery storage, 2000 amp hours of battery storage. We can run 50 amps for about 18 hours straight so we’ve got the ability to support a lot of power usage.
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