HOUSEHOLD ENERGY SYSTEM

Altec Power has developed the APH-1 Household Energy System, comprised of an Altec Power Solar System tied to an
Altec Power 1  MegaWatt Battery (APM-1).  The APM-1 stores 1,000 kWh of energy and delivers clean sine wave electricity to a home once connected.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, residential electricity usage per capita in California in 2011, was 2,346 kWh.

Based on the average per capita use of 2,346 kWh annually, a family of four in California would expect to consume 9,384 kWh annually.  Approximately 26 Kwh per day.

The APM-1 can power the typical California home for 30 days before recharging.  Since the APM-1 is part of the APH-1 and is being charged via solar power whenever the sun is shining the APH-1 will not run out of power.

Altec Power will install an APH-1 Household Energy System free of charge.  The homeowner is charged only for the electricity consumed.  Altec Power will charge a rate equivalent to 25% less than the local utility for power consumed.

Pure Syne Wave

Running appliances exactly to the manufacturer’s specifications requires a power source with a pure sine wave output. With pure sine wave, motor loads start easier and run cooler due to the reduced harmonics associated with the pure sine wave shape. In fact, some equipment will operate properly only from a true sine wave source: Some examples include laser and motor driven printers, variable speed motors, medical equipment, and any equipment deriving timing signals from the input.

The benefits of running your equipment and appliances on a pure sine wave include:

  • Generates less electrical noise in your equipment.  Means no lines on your TV set and no hum in your sound system.
  • Microwave ovens cook faster.
  • Equipment and appliances lasts longer.
  • Equipment and appliances run cooler and more efficiently.
  • Equipment that can be damaged when running on modified sine waves such as laser printers, rechargeable battery powered devices and pellet stoves run perfectly when operated from a pure sine wave inverter.
  • Telecommunications equipment run with less noise and hum.
  • Motors run at their intended speed and with less heat.
  • Computer equipment lasts longer and is less likely to have mysterious errors or shut-downs.

ENERGY CONSUMPTION

Available on the Federal Register, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) June 2014 128-page carbon rule for existing electric power sources (“Clean Power Plan”) leans heavily upon California, the “capital of green energy” and a state that consumes 45% less electricity per capita than the rest of the country (Figure 1). Despite not meeting its 20% by 2010 target, California has a 33% by 2020 Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) and is routinely cited as an exemplar of how Demand Side Management and efficiency programs can flatten or decrease electricity use, see Natural Resources Defense Council,  California Council on Science and Technology, and Environmental Defense Fund. Summed up by Cathy Zoi, former DOE Assistant Secretary and Acting Under Secretary in the Obama administration:

  • “[California] has created a gigantic and important proof case that reducing greenhouse gas emissions and having an economy grow can be done simultaneously…We’ve already figured out…solar and wind power…Our energy-efficiency programs here in California are world-best practice. So the program that we have here is setting the national standard for what can be done.”

California has electricity rates 40% above the U.S. average, and residential price increases have quadrupled in the RPS era. By 2020, the Pacific Research Institute finds that the RPS will impose “an implicit tax of 27 percent,” and Energy and Environmental Economics says that prices could rise nearly 50% by 2030.